The Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and the country's battle against the Great Depression. The CCC put millions of people to work on an extensive building program concentrating on America's parks and natural resources. CCC workers built and improved a wide variety of park facilities and infrastructure throughout California and the rest of the country, including bridges, campgrounds, dams, fire breaks and look-out towers, housing and other buildings, open-air amphitheaters, picnic areas, restrooms, roads, and trails. In addition, CCC men fought fires and cleaned up after floods. The CCC was instrumental in the formation of California's state park system, still in its early development in the 1930s. Without the CCC, many of the newly acquired park properties would have been without facilities and unusable for years. Only eighteen California state parks were open to the public in 1933, with meager facilities at most. By 1937, seventy parks were open and fully operating. This photograph album documents the labors of CCC camps across the Golden State, showing the work being done by the Corps as well as living conditions within the camps.
Type
text
Format
Book
Extent
11 x 15 in. 104 Pages of 104
Identifier
car_000326 F3937 ark:/13960/t03z8cp4v
Language
English
Subject
Depressions--1929--California New Deal, 1933-1939 Camp sites, facilities, etc Trucks Fire lookout stations Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) United States. Forest Service California. Division of Forestry
Time Period
1929/1941 1930
Place
California
Provenance
California State Archives California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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