Arnold Sherwood Bates photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: PG 117

Staff Only

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

Additional Description

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.