Photograph album of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Orogrande, New Mexico

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Title: Photograph album of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Orogrande, New Mexico
Published / Created: circa 1938-1940.
Abstract: Photograph album created and compiled by a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Eighth Corps, Company 3350, which formed in Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, that depicts activities in Camp DG69-N, near Orogrande, New Mexico, circa 1938-1940. Images include informal portraits of Corps members, as well as views of the camp, buildings, and desert. The album also includes commercial photographs that document White Sands National Monument and postcards promoting Almagordo, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Provenance: Purchased from Almagre Books on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2008.
Extent: 1 album (79 photographic prints and 7 postcards) : 26.0 x 33.5 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Photographic albums
Photographic prints
Postcards
Material: b & w ;
Subject (Geographic): New Mexico
Orogrande (N.M.)
Otero County (N.M.)
White Sands National Monument (N.M.)
Subject (Name): Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Company 3350 (Tobyhanna, Pa.)
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Company 3350 (Tobyhanna, Pa.) > Pictorial works
New Mexico > Pictorial works
Orogrande (N.M.) > Pictorial works
Otero County (N.M.) > Pictorial works
White Sands National Monument (N.M.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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Citation: Photograph Album of a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Near Orogrande, New Mexico. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.