Arnold Sherwood Bates photograph collection
Content Description
Arnold Sherwood Bates was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps around 1936. He served mostly at C. C. C. Camp F-123, North Fork which was located in Pierce, Idaho. He kept photographs of the camp, which also feature multiple friends and co-workers.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within circa. 1936; 1943
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
In March 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt drafted the Civilian Conservation Corps (C. C. C.). It's purpose was to restore millions of acres of devastated forests and other exhausted public lands. It was also a way to provide the economically depressed United States with temporary work and training for young men in the aftermath of the Great Depression.
Arnold Sherwood Bates served within the C. C. C. around 1936. Originally from Arkansas, Bates joined hundreds of young men in Camp Pike at Little Rock, Arkansas to form Company 5702 of the C. C. C. There they trained and eventually made their way to Camp F-123 North Fork located near Pierce, Idaho.
Some of the work the Bates and the company completed with at Camp F-123 included working on multiple Blister Rust control projects, fish rearing, road maintenance projects, and various camp construction projects.
Extent
47 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Photographs of Idaho Civilian Conversation Corps Camp F-123. Other photographs do not related to Idaho CCC.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photographs were donated by Nancy Bates, the daughter-in-law of Arnold Sherwood Bates, and first sent to U of I Library's Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning and added to the Idaho Civilian Conservation Corps digital collection. They were then transferred to U of I Library Special Collections and Archives.
Processing Information
Items were first digitized by U of I Library's Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning and added to the Idaho Civilian Conservation Corps digital collection. They were then transferred to U of I Library Special Collections and Archives and processed.
Subject
- Bates, Arnold Sherwood (Person)
- Title
- Guide to Arnold Sherwood Bates photograph collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Sara Szobody.
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository