CCC boys filling work boxes with young trees in preparation for the day's tree planting – Vintage Wall Art
![CCC boys filling work boxes with young trees in preparation for the day's tree planting, [between 1936 and 1940(?)] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e0/e083b7f712d0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of CCC boys filling work boxes with young trees in preparation for the day's tree planting. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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CCC boys filling work boxes with young trees in preparation for the day's tree planting
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The particular detail here is the work itself: young Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees are packing seedlings into work boxes, the wooden crates or trays used to carry saplings into the field before a day of planting. The CCC was a New Deal program that put young men, mostly unmarried and from families on relief, to work on conservation projects such as reforestation, soil erosion control and fire prevention on public lands. Tree planting was among its most visible tasks, and the crews planted millions of seedlings across national forests and parks during the 1930s. The record dates this photograph only tentatively, to somewhere between 1936 and 1940, so the scene reflects the program during its peak years.
| Created / published | [between 1936 and 1940(?)] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 107833. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,234 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152722 |
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