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Young men leaving Seattle for a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, April 14, 1937
On April 13, 1937, eighty men reported to the Armory in Seattle on the first day of the spring enrollment for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The program, created by the federal government in 1933 to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression, hired young men to work on conservation projects in remote areas of the United States. In March 1937,…
ID Number:1986.5.1829.1
Date:1937
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Young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps receiving a physical exam, 1937
Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Legislation, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that employed about 3 million men age 18 to 25 from 1933 until 1942. CCC jobs were generally manual labor, and focused primarily on the conservation and development of parks and other natural resources throughout the United States. Physical exams…
ID Number:1986.5.1829.2
Date:1937
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Young bugler at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, 1939
In 1933, during the Great Depression, the United States government created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program intended to relieve unemployment. The quasimilitary program was open to American males between the ages of 17 and 23 who were in good physical condition. The men worked on a variety of conservation projects including planting trees, fighting forest fires, and constructing…
ID Number:1986.5.1830.1
Date:1939
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Buildings at a Washington state CCC camp, August 1939
In 1933, during the Great Depression, the United States government created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to help relieve unemployment. The CCC set up work camps in national parks and other remote areas of the country where the recruits planted trees, built roads and buildings and worked on a variety of other conservation projects.This 1939 photo shows the headquarters building…
ID Number:1986.5.1830.2
Date:1939
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Circle of children holding hands in a wooded clearing, 1939
Young children participating in an educational program, likely lead by a Civilian Conservation Corps employee, in what is probably Mount Rainier National Park. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Legislation, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that employed about 3 million men age 18 to 25 from 1933 until 1942. CCC jobs were…
ID Number:1986.5.1830.8
Date:1939
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American Legion exposes Communist College in Burke Building, Seattle, 1936
The Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) steadily gained membership through the 1930s, largely because of its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism.In early 1936, the American Legion exposed a burgeoning "Communist College" set up in an office in the Burke Building at Second Avenue and Marion Street. Upon discovery, the office was hastily…
ID Number:1986.5.1894.1
Date:1936
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Men being loaded into a police paddy wagon, Seattle, 1936
The Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) steadily gained membership through the 1930s, largely because of its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism. The American Legion was integral in exposing communist activity during this time. This photograph depicts men suspected of belonging to a communist organization being loaded into a paddy wagon. Written on…
ID Number:1986.5.1894.2
Date:1936
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Lucille Engdahl working with deaf children, University of Washington Speech Clinic, Seattle, 1939
Using new techniques, the hard-of-hearing section of the University of Washington speech clinic began training three deaf children how to talk. Instructors speak into an amplification device placed against the patient's ear to convey that sound exists and has meaning. Graduate student Lucille Engdahl also showed the children how to shape their mouths and by touching their throats how to…
ID Number:1986.5.2055.1
Date:1939
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Children under a table during an air raid drill, May 6, 1958
In 1958, the Highline School District completed an air raid shelter at Hazel Valley Elementary School. The basement cafeteria, shielded by concrete walls and earth was intended to protect the school children from the effects of a nuclear bomb blast. In May, 1958, Hazel Valley held its first air raid drill as part of a nationwide program, Operation Alert 1958.…
ID Number:1986.5.2106.1
Date:1958
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Man with civil defense map of Seattle, 1958
Written on sleeve: Defense, Seattle, air raid drill, Hazel Valley School in Burien Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 6, 1958
ID Number:1986.5.2106.4
Date:1958