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| Title | Men outside barracks, Civilian Conservation Corps, Longmire, ca. 1937 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | ca. 1937 |
| Caption | 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 on the conservation and development of parks and other natural resources throughout the United States. Camp Sunshine Point, located near Longmire in Mount Rainier National Park, housed participants for six months to a year. The men at Camp Sunshine Point primarily planted trees on land made barren from logging, fires and natural erosion.
In this photo, men line up outside barracks to receive provisions. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: C.C. camp Longmire
Handwritten on sleeve: REFORESTATION, C.C. camp at Longmire. |
| Subjects | Barracks--Washington (State)--Longmire; Civilian Conservation Corps (U. S.). Camp Sunshine Point (Longmire, Wash.); Public Service--Washington (State)--Longmire; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--People--Washington (State)--Longmire; Work Camps--Washington (State)--Longmire |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park--Longmire |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.6728.1 |
| 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 negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS5, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
