Diaries and journals.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Civilian Conservation Corps, Camp Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2950
Overview
Diary and photographs of Willard C. Westfall of Little Otter, West Virginia, who served with the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp P-57 at Rupert, West Virginia. The journal begins with his training at Fort Knox and ends with his discharge from the Corps; it details day to day life in the camp. Also included is a songbook, "Standard Songs, Old and New", which was used in camp.
Dates:
1933-1934
Elma H. Martin Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2634
Overview
Correspondence, newsletters, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and materials relating to the family of Elma Hicks Martin, originally of Webster Springs, West Virginia. The bulk of the material documents everyday life of Mrs. Martin's sisters, Mary Lee and Aretas Eudora Hicks. The former was a high school home economics teacher in Colorado, and the latter a home economics teacher at West Liberty State College, West Virginia. The correspondence of Mary Lee Hicks relates to her personal...
Dates:
1917-1979
West Virginia Civilian Conservation Corps Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0629
Overview
Journals and newsletters of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal agency involved in environmental reclamation projects such as reforestation. Includes diaries and newspapers of CCC involvement in West Virginia documented in district and local camp periodicals, programs, and pictoral reviews.
Dates:
1936-1988