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| Title | Young bugler at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, 1939 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1939 |
| Caption | 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 buildings in national parks. By the time the program ended in 1942, it had employed over 3 million men.
In this 1939 photo, a young member of the CCC blows a signal to the men in the camp on his bugle. In the background are some of the wooden cabins where the men lived. The bugle player is a member of a Seattle CCC group but the location of the work camp has not been identified. |
| Notes | Written on sleeve: Civilian Conservation Corps
Visible on boy's sleeve: 129
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 | Boys
Bugles
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Public service employment
Uniforms
Work camps |
| Places | United States—Washington (State) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.1830.1 |
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| 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. |
