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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Large group portrait, including six cooks, of people of the 643rd Company, C.C.C. at Camp Virgin Lake. |
| Date: | 04 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Harry C. Thompson, Madison recreation director and chairman of the Dane County WPA shut-in program, and Frank Buehler, 717 North Lawn Avenue, who has paral... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The catcher squats as the batter gets ready to swing at a pitch while the umpire looks on. This image was taken as part of the WPA Federal Writers Project... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View across street towards Harry Rodin's service station at the intersection of North 7th and West Galena. People are standing at the corner near the bus s... |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men in formation, probably the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 1604, marching through the grounds of Fort Sheridan. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), probably Company 1604, in uniform and standing in formation, possibly at Fort Sheridan. |
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| Description: | Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), probably Company 1604, in uniform and in formation, possibly at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. |
| Date: | 11 1933 |
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| Description: | Winter view of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Beaver tents with two men in the background. CCC Company 1604 used Camp Beaver as their base camp... |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp. |
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| Description: | Men lined up for mealtime at the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Camp at Devil's Lake State Park. The camp was reportedly opened in 1935 and closed in 19... |
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| Description: | Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) cook staff. Harold Gauer had joined the CCC for a year at a dollar a day in the late 1930's. |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Worker's Alliance May Day parade float. The float has three workers on it with tools and signs read "Roosevelt's Recovery Program: Never More... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Four men are building the wall at Signal Point Lookout in Wyalusing State Park. They are part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project #8656-8. Th... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro... |
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