Category: Great Depression

Records about the Civilian Conservation Corps in the National Register of Historic Places

by John LeGloahec, posted in Electronic Records, Great Depression, Interior/Environment

CCC Camp (National Archives Identifier 281450) When the United States was mired in the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, to help improve America’s public lands, forests, and parks.  There are just under one thousand properties in the National Register of Historic Places associated with the CCC, including the Stowe CCC … Continue reading Records about the Civilian Conservation Corps in the National Register of Historic Places

The CCC . . . in Color!

by ddancis, posted in Great Depression, Interior/Environment

Today’s post is written by Cody White, Archivist at the National Archives at Denver. In his first 100 days in office, President Franklin Roosevelt worked furiously to tamp down the widespread unemployment and economic unrest that gripped the United States back in 1932. Arguably the most famous legislation passed that spring was the Emergency Conservation … Continue reading The CCC . . . in Color!