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| Title | Circle of children holding hands in a wooded clearing, 1939 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1939 |
| Caption | 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 generally manual labor, and focused primarily on the conservation and development of parks and other natural resources throughout the United States. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: Civilian Conservation Corps
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 31, 1939 |
| Subjects | Children
Forests
Play (Recreation) |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.1830.8 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film positive as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4. |
