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Civilian Conservation Corps Collection

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

950 THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 02/1999. Last revised date 04/2020.

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.

USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply concerning the use, photoduplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright.

EXTENT: 0.42 linear feet.

CREATOR: Dick, Paul Wesley

DATE: 1933-1939

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Civilian Conservation Corps Collection contains research notes and other materials belonging to Paul Wesley Dick.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for unemployed, unmarried men. Most of the work was manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas. The program ran from 1933 to 1942.

CITE AS: Civilian Conservation Corps, 950 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ACQUISITION INFORMATION: Acquired as a gift.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

“Effects of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Shenandoah Valley” by Billy Vanscoy, February 17, 1994, 190 leaves, typescript (photocopy)

Bibliography cards, approximately 100, manuscript, 1994

Blue Ridge Parkway map,1992, National Park Service, 1 item, printed

Camp Roosevelt, 3 items, printed
“Camp Roosevelt, First C.C.C. Camp in U.S.A.,” United States Department of Agricultural, Forest Service, pamphlet, 21.5 x 9.4 cm, n.d.

CCC/WPA Newspaper Articles
Articles: march 21, 1933-october 3, 1934, unnumbered leaves, printed (photocopy)
Articles: march 10, 1938-December 30, 1939, unnumbered leaves, printed (photocopy)

CCC/WPA Secondary Sources, unnumbered pages (photocopy)

CCC/WPA Winchester and Vicinity, Secondary Sources, unnumbered pages, printed (photocopy)

Notes of Paul Wesley Dick, unnumbered pages, manuscript

Town Run, Winchester, VA – newspaper articles, July 5, 1934-April 20, 1938

Town Run, Winchester, VA, secondary sources, unnumbered leaves, printed (photocopy)

History, Reunion, and Museum – news articles, unnumbered  pages, printed (photocopy)