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, there were thirty-two CCC camps in Seattle's district and 2,002 camps nationwide.

In this photo, new CCC recruits wave as their truck leaves Seattle for a CCC camp where they will spend the next six months to two years. In 1937, CCC members strung telephone lines, built roads and fire lookout towers, assisted in fighting fires and worked on a variety of other projects. The men also took classes at the camps for high school credit.

Written on sleeve: Civilian Conservation Corps; Davis, E. R., Roy, Clifford
Handwritten on image: [unintelligible] C C Camps
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 15, 1937