New Deal Labor and Federal Relief in the Civilian Conservation Corps, Identified Photo Archive of CCC Service in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Vermont, 1935-38

New deal Civilian Conservation Corps

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[Civilian Conservation Corp][Labor][Great Depression] Identified Civilian Conservation Corps photo archive chronicling the service of enrollee Ernest Miller through the federally organized camp system from Fort Devens and Hinsdale, Massachusetts, to Moro, Oregon, and Waterbury, Vermont between 1935 and 1938, with direct documentation of CCC labor, transfer, and camp administration across multiple companies during the New Deal. Miller is named in the surviving service record and honorable discharge, which trace his work from initial processing at Fort Devens to service with the 111th Co. CCC at Hinsdale, Massachusetts, the 2114th Co. CCC at Moro, Oregon, and the 1136th Co. CCC at Waterbury, Vermont, where he is specifically identified with flood control work and service as 1st Cook. The photos show camp life and camraderie as well as the practical organization of federal relief labor through barracks compounds, kitchen staff, transport trucks, work assignments, and intercamp transfer.
Photo archive of 27 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 2 x 3 to 2.5 x 4 inches, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Vermont, 1935 to 1938. The photographs include elevated views of CCC camp compounds with long barracks buildings, service roads, parked trucks, and open yards; informal group portraits of young men in work clothes posed in front of wood frame camp structures; kitchen staff in white aprons and cook whites posed outdoors; and several camp scenes focused on food preparation, including cooks standing beside a large bell mounted on a timber frame near the barracks. Additional images show enrollees riding or standing on open trucks, posing beside a canvas covered vehicle, gathering around camp buildings, and working with machinery in a yard strewn with timber and tools. One photograph shows a man crouched beside a piece of equipment while pouring liquid into its mechanism, linking the group portraits to the mechanical upkeep that sustained camp operations. The archive also includes a Record of Service in Civilian Conservation Corps form and an Honorable Discharge issued to Ernest Miller, both typed and signed, naming his dates of enrollment and discharge, birth information, occupation as laborer, performance ratings, transfer to the 6th CCC District at Waterbury, and service under the 111th, 2114th, and 1136th companies.
Created in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the central labor programs of the New Deal, enrolling unemployed men in federally supervised camps where they could work at wage jobs, regimented housing, transport, and assigned work in conservation and infrastructure projects. Miller's papers and photographs make that structure unusually legible at the individual level: the documents record the bureaucratic chain of enrollment, transfer, assignment, and discharge, while the photographs show the camp environment in which those orders were carried out through kitchens, vehicles, work crews, and barracks space. Scattered creasing, and moderate surface wear to photographs; service papers folded with toning, handling wear, and small stains. Overall very good condition. Identified documentation of a single CCC worker across three companies, a strong and cohesive record of New Deal labor administration across camps from the East Coast to the West.

Item #23270

Price: $550.00