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Just the tip of the iceberg:

Civilian Conservation Corps Photos gallery
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/centennial/ccc_gallery.asp

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy
http://ccclegacy.org/

The Conseration Corps State Museum (California)
http://www.militarymuseum.org/CCCMuseum.html

James F. Justin CCC Museum
http://www.geocities.com/famjustin/ccchis.html


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jonathan Libbon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I’m doing my master’s thesis on a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, and I need some help. What I’m doing is looking at luxury spending amongst the enrollees. The camp that I’m working with is amazing. It’s located in Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny National Forest. It was the second camp ever built in the nation, and still has standing structures. This summer I excavated portions of the camp and came up with a phenomenal sample of the camp’s material culture. The problem I’m having, is locating other CCC camps that have been dug. In order to understand the larger pattern of luxury spending, I have to compare it to other sites. I’ve already got a few non-CCC Great Depression sites, as well as some pre-Great Depression sites that I’m looking at to understand buying strategies in the Great Depression. I’m having trouble locating other CCC camps that have been excavated. What I need is artifact inventories from CCC camps to compare my data to. Any help wo
>  uld be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Jonathan Libbon
>
> MA in Applied Archaeology Candidate
> Indiana University of Pennsylvania
> G-12B McElhaney Hall, 441 North Walk
> Indiana, PA 15705
> [log in to unmask]
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