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Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
Ms85-17


Descriptive Summary

Title: Civilian Conservation Corps Collection
Span Dates: 1933-1993
Bulk Dates: 1933-1942
ID No: Ms85-17
Creator:
Extent: 5 boxes
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Abstract:

Administrative Information

Donor:
Transfers:
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], Civilian Conservation Corps Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Processor: Chuck Ocheltree
Biographical Note:


Contents List:


Box 1

1. Co. 1522 Clifftop-journal of Ralph Matz, 1935
2. Co. 2598 Camp Price, Hillsboro-newsletter Cannonball (photocopies), 1935
3. Co. 2598 Camp Price, Hillsboro-newsletter Cannonball (photocopies), 1936
4. Co. 2598 Camp Price, Hillsboro-newsletter Cannonball (photocopies), 1937
5. Research materials on Civilian Conservation Corps


Box 2

1. Camp SCS-4 Union Diary, November 1937-December 1939
2. Camp SCS-11, Hedgesville, Diary January 1940-May 1942
3. Co. 3543 Camp McDowell publications-Panther Pioneer August 8, 1936; Thanksgiving 1936
4. Co. 3510 Camp SCS-5 Lewisburg Pictorial Review, newsletters, programs
5. Co. 3508 Moundsville Howard Crimmel certificates, discharge and service record
6. CCC 50th Anniversary; materials from Camps SCS-12 Jane Lews, SCS-6 Ripley, S77 Panther, S76 Kanawha State Forest, P60 Reedy, F23 Durbin, F24 Whitmer, P60 Oak Hill, 808-3 Moundsville, Cranberry, Alpena, Glade, Randolph, P65 Panther
7. Copies of newsletters from Cacapon State Park, Camp Bowers, Camp Copperhead, Camp Laurel Fork, Camp Neola, Camp Tygart, Camp Logan
8. Co. 2589 Camp Black Mountain Letters from James Lambert (photocopies), 1937
9. Co. 1524 Camp Mathias Scrapbook compiled by Raymond Cross of Hardy County (photocopies)
10. Listings of Civilian Conservation Corps camps
11. Co. 2598 Camp Price Droop Mountain Newsletter (photocopy), July 31, 1936
12. Co. 2594 Camp Bowers, Pickens-newsletters June 1939-March 1940, Christmas 1940 menu
13. Co. 1522 Camp Beaver, Clifftop-newsletters June 1935-August 1936, materials from Ralph Matz's service
14. Robert Evans discharges, newsletter from camp in Montana
15. Clippings about Babcock, Hawks Nest, camp assignments Ralph Matz
16. Co. 1522 Clifftop Christmas program 1940 (photocopy); program 3rd Annual C.C.C.Reunion at Watoga State Park, June 12, 1993 (2 copies); 8th Annual C.C.C.Reunion at Watoga State Park, June 6, 1998
17. Newsletters, Co. 3527 Kingwood, September 23, 1936, Co. 33527 Camp Rhododendron August 31, 1937 (photocopies)


Box 3

1. Co. 2599 S-76 Kanawha State Forest-Pictorial Review and newsletters, 1940
2. Co. 2599 S-76 Kanawha State Forest-reunions and other recent articles
3. Co. 2599 S-76 Kanawha State Forest-various documents
4. Co. 2599 S-76 Kanawha State Forest-official reports and correspondence, 1938-1942; 1992 history (photocopies)
5. Co. 2589 Camp Black Mountain, Marlinton-newsletters September 1938-March 1939
6. Co. 2594 Camp Bowers, Pickens-scrapbook 1939-1940
7. Soil conservation projects, Roane, Wirt, Wood counties
8. National Association of CCC Alumni journals, October 1982-December 1986
9. National Association of CCC Alumni journals, January 1987-November 1988
10. Brotherhood of XCCCers newsletters, convention information 1985-1988
11. Book, Handicraft Simplified Procedure and Projects by Lester Griswold with stamps inside for Co. 2599 Kanawha State Forest and Co. 1512 Camp Crawford, Elizabeth


Box 4

1. CCC copies of speeches and addresses
2. CCC circulars-wildlife, historical, forestry
3. CCC executive orders 1933-1937
4. CCC statistical reports monthly and quarterly, 1938-1939
5. CCC Indians at work in the CCC
6. CCC press releases 1935-1936
7. CCC press releases 1937-1938
8. CCC reports 1933, 1937, 1939
9. CCC miscellaneous


Box 5

1. CCC miscellaneous history, background
2. CCC regulations, handbook for selecting men
3. CCC State Park Emergency Conservation Work (incomplete)
4. CCC federal legislation
5. CCC forester reports 1933-1936
6. CCC directory 1938
7. CCC directory 1939
8. CCC directory 1940
9. Booklet, Camp Rhododendron, Cooper's Rock State Forest by Kenneth L. Carvell, 1996
10. Program, Third Annual Reunion, Family & Friends of Watoga State Park, 1933-1942. June 12, 1993
11. Draft, Remembering 3538-C, Camp War, Berwind, McDowell County, by Ancella Bickley
12. Camp Diaries, Company 2594, Camp Tygart, Valley Head, Randolph County, 2 items


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