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Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
The camp, one of 2650 nationwide, was home to about 300 men aged 17–21. Like most CCC camps, the Rabideau camp was established to provide work to those unemployed as a result of the Great Depression. Enrollees at the camp came mostly from Northern Minnesota and worked on projects within the Chippewa National Forest, such as building roads and ...
The Henness Ridge Fire Lookout in Yosemite National Park was built in 1934 [1] by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which was a public work relief program for unemployed men age 18–24. The CCC provided unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States.
The California Conservation Corps, CCC, is a department of the government of California, falling under the state cabinet-level California Resources Agency.The CCC is a voluntary work development program specifically for men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 (up to 29 for veterans [1]), offering work in environmental conservation, fire protection, land maintenance, and emergency response ...
The CCC hired 250,000 unemployed young men to work for six months on rural projects. It was directed by Robert Fechner, a former union executive who promised labor unions that the enrollees would not be trained in skills that would compete with unemployed union members. Instead, they did unskilled construction labor, especially building roads ...
Along with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), it was the first relief operation under the New Deal. FERA's main goal was to alleviate household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. Jobs were more expensive than direct cash payments (called "the dole"), but were psychologically more beneficial to the ...
Camp North Bend, also known as Camp Waskowitz, is a 91⁄2 acre complex of wood-frame buildings. Constructed by and for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [1] It is the only intact example of CCC work camp design and construction in King County, Washington. [2]
The most popular of all New Deal agencies—and Roosevelt's favorite—was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which hired 250,000 unemployed men for rural projects. Roosevelt also expanded Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which financed railroads and industry.