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    Acknowledgements

    Brief History of the CCC

    National Park Service Role

    NPS Camps

    Contributions

    Overall Accomplishments

    Appendix

     Bibliography



The Civilian Conservation Corps and
the National Park Service, 1933-1942:

An Administrative History
Bibliography
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Staff members of black Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Gettysburg National Military Park.
Courtesy of the National Archives.


1. Manuscript Materials

Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Civilian Conservation Corps Material in the National Park Service Archives.

Washington, D.C. National Archives. Record Group 35. Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

______. ______. Record Group 79. Records of the National Park Service.

______. ______. Record Group 95. Records of the United States Forest Service.

______. ______. Record Group 407. Records of the Adjutant General's Office 1917.


2. Government Documents

Civilian Conservation Corps. Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939.

____. U.S. Department of the Interior. Responsibility For Job Training, by Guy Arthur. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940.

_____. Standards of Eligibility and Selection for Junior Enrollees. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939.

The Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Recreation. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941.

The Civilian Conservation Corps: What It Is and What It Does. Washington: Government Printing Office, n.d.

Congressional Record. vol. 83, 1937.

Code of Federal Regulations. Title 3--The President, 1936-1943. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1968

Emergency Conservation Work. Annual Report of the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work Fiscal Year, Ending June 30, 1936. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937.

_____.Report of the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work:
  for the Period April 5, 1933, to September 30, 1933
(1st report)
  for the Period April 5, 1933, to March 31, 1934 (2d report)
  for the Period April 1, 1934, to September 30, 1934 (3d report)
  Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934.
from the Period Extending From April 1933 to June 30, 1935
  Washington: Government Printing Office, 1935.

Emergency Conservation Work. Two Years of Emergency Conservation Work (Civilian Conservation Corps) April 5, 1933 - March 31, 1935, by Robert Fechner. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1935.

Executive Orders 6106, 6126, 6129, 6148, 6208, and 6542. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933. Obtained at the National Archives.

Executive Orders 6684, 6687, and 6910-A. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934. Obtained at the National Archives.

Executive Order 7195. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1935. Obtained at National Archives.

Federal Security Agency. Annual Report of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1942. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943.

_____. Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1940. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941.

_____. Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1941. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942.

____. The Civilian Conservation Corps and Colored Youth. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940.

Glimpses of National Parks. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941.

Hearon, Fanning. Comp. Parks and Recreation Progress 1941 Yearbook. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941.

Kieley, James F. The CCC. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.

National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Administrative History: Expansion of the National Park Service in the 1930s, by Harlan D. Unrau and G. Frank Williss. Denver, 1983. On file at Denver Service Center.

_____. _____. Administrative History of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, by Jerome A. Greene and John C. Paige. Denver, 1983. On file at Denver Service Center.

_____. ______. Civilian Conservation Corps Program of the Department of the Interior, March 1933 to June 30, 1943, by Conrad L. Wirth. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1944.

_____. _____. "Emergency Conservation Work, Side Camps" Circular 37.

_____. _____. "It's 50 Years Since CCC Went Into Action," Courier, The National Park Service Newsletter, by Conrad L. Wirth and James Kieley.

_____. _____. The National Parks and Emergency Conservation, by Isabelle F. Story. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.

_____. _____. Procedure Manual for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939.

U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on Banking and Currency. Hearings on Emergency Conservation and Relief Bill. Rept. 831, 72d Cong., 1st. sess., June 15, 1932.

U.S. Department of the Interior. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Years April 11, 1911 ending June 30, 1944. The original report actually says 1911; however, the authors of this report feel it is a typographical error which should read 1933.

_____. General Information Regarding the Department of the Interior, October 1, 1937. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937.

_____. Handbook of Emergency Conservation Work. Washington: Department of the Interior, 1933.

_____. A Manual on Emergency Conservation Work, Civilian Conservation Corps. Washington: Government Printing Office, n. d.

_____. A Manual on Emergency Conservation Work, Civilian Conservation Corps. Washington: GPO. 1939.

U.S. Department of Labor. Emergency Conservation Work Bulletin No. 1. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.

_____. Handbook for Agencies Selecting Men for Emergency Conservation Work. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.

_____. Monthly Labor Review. May 1935, April 1939, and June 1941.

_____. National Emergency Conservation Work: What It Is - How It Operates. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933.

U.S. Department of War. Civilian Conservation Corps Regulations. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937.

______. War Department Regulations, Relief of Unemployment Civilian Conservation Corps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1935.

U.S. House. Amending Act Establishing A Civilian Conservation Corps. Rept. 1836, 75th Cong., 3d sess., 1938.

____. Amending Act Establishing A Civilian Conservation Corps. Rept. 447, 76th Cong., 1st sess., 1939.

______. Civilian Conservation Corps. Rept. 943, 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937.

______. Civilian Conservation Corps. Rept. 1032, 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937.

______. Committee on Labor. Message From the President of the United States on Unemployment Relief. Doc. 6, 73d Cong., 1st sess., 1933.

______. Draft of a Proposed Provision, Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Doc. 192, 74th Cong., 1st sess., 1935.

______. Draft of Proposed Provision Pertaining to Existing Approriations for the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1941. Doc. 96, 77th Cong., 1st sess., 1941.

______. Emergency Construction. Rept. 2125, 71st Cong., 3d sess., 1930.

______. Emergency Construction Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1931. Rept. 2084, 71st Cong., 3d sess., 1930.

______. Emergency Construction of Public Works. Rept. 2104, 71st Cong., 3d sess., 1930.

______. Hearings on Making the Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency. Rept. 687, 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937.

______. Monthly Reports of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration May 22 to June 30, 1933. Doc. 239, 73d Cong., 2d sess., 1934.

______. Proposed Provision Pertaining to an Existing Appropriation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Doc. 208, 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937.

______. Proposed Provision Pertaining to an Existing Appropriation for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Doc. 461, 77th Cong., 1st sess., 1941.

______. Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation Making the Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency. Doc. 196, 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937.

______. Supplemental Estimates of Appropriations for the Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Security Agency, 1943. Doc. 730, 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942.

U.S. Senate. Amending Act Establishing a Civilian Conservation Corps. Rept. 950, 76th Cong., 1st sess., 1939.

______. Authorize the Disposal of Surplus Personal Property, Including Buildings, of the Emergency Conservation Work. Rept. 286, 74th Cong., 1st sess., 1935.

______. Civilian Conservation Corps, Doc. 216, 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942.

______. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Everglades National Park. Rept. 1411, 74th Cong., 1st sess., 1935.

______. Committee on Education and Labor. Hearings on the Termination of Civilian Conservation Corps and National Youth Administration. 77th Cong., 2d sess., 1942.

______. A Report of the Business of the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works For Period Ending February 1, 1934. Doc. 167, 73d Cong., 2d sess., 1934.

Work Experience that Counts. Washington: Government Printing Office, n.d.


3. Periodicals and Newspapers

American Forests. 1932. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. 1938. 1939. 1940. 1941. 1942.

Caravati, Henry L. "Civilian Conservation Corps." Recreation 34(February 1941):650-651.

"Charge CCC Defrauded of $1,250,000," New York Daily News, January 21, 1938.

Fenwick, Robert W. "The Civilian Conservation Corps; They Took to the Woods . . . and Came Out Men," Empire Magazine Newspaper clipping file; Western Historical Collections: University of Colorado, Boulder.

"Fewer Youth Props," Newsweek 18 (November 10, 1941):24.

Hendrickson, Kenneth E., Jr. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in South Dakota." South Dakota History 9(winter, 1980):1-20.

Humphreys, Hubert. "Origin of and Nature of the Experiment and Its Role in Conservation." Part 1 of "In a Sense Experimental: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Louisiana," Louisiana History 5(fall, 1964):345-367.

______. "Conservation of Human Resources." Part 2 of "In a Sense Experimental: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Louisiana," Louisiana History 6(winter, 1965):27-52.

The New York Times. 1933-1942.

Oxley, Howard W. "Recreation in the CCC Camps." School Life: Official Journal of the U.S. Office of Education. 26(February 1941):151-152.

Philadelphia Record. 1937. 1938.

Pittsburgh Courier. 1942.

Washington Post. 1933. 1934. 1937. 1938.

Washington Star. 1937. 1938.

"Weeds Replace CCC Handiwork in Parks of U.S." Chicago Tribune. September 6, 1942.


4. Books, Pamphlets and Unpublished Material

Aaron, Daniel, Richard Hofstadter and William Miller. The United States: The History of a Republic. 2d ed. rev., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967.

Alleger, C.N. and L.A. Glyre, comps. History of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado. Denver: Western Newspaper Union, 1936.

American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education. The Civilian Conservation Corps, n.p. n.d.

_____. Youth in the CCC. Washington D.C., GPO, 1942.

Byrne, John P. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Virginia, 1933-1942." Master's thesis, University of Montana, 1982.

Campbell, Carlos C. Birth of a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains. University of Tennessee Press: Knoxville, 1960.

Cohen, Stan. The Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942. Missoula , Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. 1980.

Degler, Carl N., ed. 1970. The New Deal. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1970.

Derber, Milton. "The New Deal and Labor." In The New Deal: The National Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.

Everhart, William C. The National Park Service. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.

Frome, Michael. Strangers in High Places: The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains. University of Tenneessee Press: Knoxville, 1966.

Harper, Charles Price. The Administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Clarksburg, W.V.: Clarksburg Publishing Co., 1939.

Hill, Frank Ernest. "The CCC Marches Toward a New Destiny." In The New Deal. Edited by Carl Degler. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1970.

Hunter, Robert F. "Virginia and the New Deal." In The New Deal: The State Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 2. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.

Johnson, Charles William. "The Civilian Conservation Corps: The Role of the Army." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1968.

Keller, Richard C. "Pennsylvania's Little New Deal." In The New Deal: The State Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 2. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.

McDermott, John J., ed. The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition. New York: Random House, 1967.

The New Dealers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934.

National Education Association. The Civilian Conservation Corps, The National Youth Administration and the Public Schools. Washington: National Education Association, 1941.

Rauch, Basil. The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938. New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., 1944.

Salmond, John A. The Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1967.

Schessinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Roosevelt. 3 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Vol. 2: The Coming of the New Deal.

Taylor, Charles H. "Progress and Accomplishments of the Civilian Conservation Corps" (speech given to Kiwanis Club, Pittsburgh, Penn., April 12, 1938).

Walters, Raymond. "The New Deal and the Negro." In The New Deal: The National Level. Edited by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and David Brody. Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975.

Wirth, Conrad L. Parks, Politics and the People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.




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