Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection
name: label: Creator
content: National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
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content: Ward, C.E.
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content: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
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content: Bidwell, Timothy
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content: Bires, Andrew, G.
topic: label: Topic
content: Conservation of natural resources -- 1930-1950
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content: Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
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content: National parks and reserves
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content: New Deal, 1933-1939
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content: State parks
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni in 2006.
creator: label: Creator
content: National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
label: Creator
content: Ward, C.E.
label: Creator
content: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
label: Creator
content: Bidwell, Timothy
label: Creator
content: Bires, Andrew, G.
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content: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Archival collections of the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCCA) donated in 2006.  The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created as part of the New Deal legislation initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, was a public work relief program for unemployed men designed to reduce high unemployment during the Great Depression.  The CCC carried out a broad natural resource conservation program on national, state, and municipal lands from 1933 to 1942. This collection contains papers, photographs, and ephemera collected and created by alumni of the CCC and donated to the NACCCA archives.
accruals: label: Accruals
content: Addenda were donated by: Diane De Libero in 2011, Robert Kelley and Timothy Bidwell in 2013, Andrew G. Bires in 2017, National Park Service in 2018, South Carolina Cotton Museum in 2019, Angela Thor in 2021.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a New Deal era program, created in 1933 to reduce unemployment, a direct result of the Great Depression.  The CCC provided national conservation work across the United States for young, unmarried men. Veterans could be enrolled in the CCC after verification of their service by the Veteran's Administration. Veterans were exempt from the age and marriage restriction.  Projects included planting trees, bulding flood barriers, combatting forest fires, maintaining forest roads and trails, and building recreational facilities in the National Park system and a host of other projects. There were separate CCC programs for Native Americans of recognized tribes and African Americans.  In 1942, with the waning of the Great Depression and America's entry into World War II in December 1941, resources devoted to the CCC (men and materials) were diverted to the war effort.  Congress ceased funding for the CCC and liquidation of the CCC was included in the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act (56 Stat. 569) on July 2, 1942, and for the most part completed by June 30, 1943.  Appropriations for the liquidation of the CCC continued through April 20, 1948.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 155 Cubic feet (331 boxes, 57 map folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1853-2009, undated
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content: bulk 1933-1942
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni, formed in 1977, was the repository for the initial donation of these papers, photographs, and artifacts donated from CCC alumni.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0930
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Panoramas
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content: Photographs
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content: Newspapers
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content: Pamphlets
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content: Audiovisual materials
label: Type
content: Newsletters
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content: Books
label: Type
content: Blueprints
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content: Cartoons (humorous images)
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content: Logs (records)
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content: Manuals
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content: Magazines (periodicals)
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content: Menus
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content: Memoirs
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content: Rosters
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content: Poems
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content: Sheet music
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into nine series.

Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1853-2003, undated

Series 2: State Material, 1922-2008, undated

Series 3: Publications, 1924-2006, undated

Series 4: C.E. Ward, 3rd Corps, 1933-2001, undated

Series 5: Photographs, 1929-2008, undated

Series 6: General Ephemera, 1915-2006, undated

Series 7: Bidwell Addendum, 1933-1987, undated

Series 8: Bires Addendum, 1934-1985, undated

Series 9: Audiovisual Materials, 1933-2009, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. archives specialist, assisted by Kendra Ciccone, Ashley Davies, Helena Iles, Emily Woessner, interns, and Sarah Allen, volunteer; supervised by Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist and Franklin A. Robinson, Jr., archives specialist, 2010-2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Panoramas
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content: Photographs -- 20th century
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content: Newspapers
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content: Pamphlets
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content: Audiovisual materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Newsletters
label: Genre/Form
content: Books
label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Cartoons (humorous images)
label: Genre/Form
content: Logs (records)
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Magazines (periodicals) -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Menus
label: Genre/Form
content: Memoirs
label: Genre/Form
content: Rosters
label: Genre/Form
content: Poems
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content: Sheet music -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This material was acquired by the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCCA)from CCC alumni and originally housed in the NACCCA archives in St. Louis, Missouri. Photographic materials, including loose photos, slides, snapshots, group photos, panoramic photos, and albums and binders of photographs; printed materials, including newspapers published by individual companies, camps and districts, and the national CCC newspaper, Happy Days; materials documenting each camp, including camp histories, personal memoirs, blueprints of camps and projects worked on; the papers of C.E. Ward, Educational Director of the CCC's 3rd Corps, which document the planning and implementation of educational activities in that region; miscellaneous materials, including camp rosters, cartoons, menus, poems, pamphlets, booklets, magazines, manuals, enrollee discharge papers, work logs, and sheet music; and other more recent materials such as research papers, books on the CCC, selected audiotape and video interviews with some of the alumni; and other miscellaneous items.  The collection is arranged into nine series.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials at Other Organizations

National Archives and Records Administration

Record Group 35, Civilian Conservation Corps