New Deal Labor Civilian Conservation Corps Camps at Mt. Tom State Reservation in Massachusetts Photo Archive, ca. 1930s

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[New Deal][Labor] Civilian Conservation Corps photo archive documenting New Deal conservation labor and park construction at Mount Tom State Reservation, Massachusetts, circa 1930s. These images document Roosevelt's system of federally organized relief work operating through militarized discipline, technical instruction, supervised manual labor, and state park development during the Depression. The photographs show Company 1173 at Camp No. 11029, a company active in the CCC system that put unemployed young men to work in conservation and public construction projects under Army-style management. Mount Tom remains identified in Massachusetts park records as Mount Tom State Reservation, and the CCC formed a central part of park building and maintenance across the state park system.
Photo archive of 22 silver gelatin photographs, each approximately 5 x 7 inches, Mount Tom State Reservation, Massachusetts, circa 1930s. The clearest identifying image shows a large wooden camp sign reading “1173rd Co. C.C.C. / Camp #11029 / Mt. Tom Reservation / State Park No. 18,” flanked by a uniformed officer and a suited civilian. Other photographs show a formal group portrait of uniformed camp personnel with Red Cross patches on two seated men; individual of officers and officials; a seated group of suited visitors and officers; classroom instruction with rows of enrollees facing a blackboard; a barbershop or medical interior with men seated along a partition while another man receives attention in a chair; a workshop or forge interior with anvil, tools, belt-driven machinery, and warning signage; road scenes with automobiles moving through the camp landscape; a watchtower; rows of parked cars suggesting inspection day or visitation; and multiple labor scenes in wooded terrain where crews unload and place large stones, grade muddy roads, and assemble beside trucks with shovels and work clothes. One image records the camp setting itself with barracks and flagpole, while another shows a broad landscape view from the reservation, tying labor, camp life, and the finished recreational environment into the same visual record.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, established in 1933, was one of the major New Deal mechanisms for unemployment relief. The organization played a significant role in reshaping forests, roads, trails, campgrounds, and park facilities across the United States. This group is strongest where it shows the full operating structure of a CCC camp rather than isolated work scenes: command personnel, instruction, shop labor, transportation, supervised field crews, and the built camp environment all appear here in relation to one named Massachusetts site. Curling throughout; otherwise complete and clean, with light general wear. Overall very good condition.

Item #23253

Price: $750.00