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Publicity Poster for William Wellman’s Wild Boys of the Road ( Warner Brothers, 1933) “Scarcely a magazine appears today without pictures of young fellows.

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1 Publicity Poster for William Wellman’s Wild Boys of the Road ( Warner Brothers, 1933) “Scarcely a magazine appears today without pictures of young fellows jumping freight trains, huddled in box cars, cooking Mulligan stew in the jungle...” -Wayne McMillen

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3 Hoyt, We Can Take It

4 Illustration detail, Hysterical history of the C.C.C. ( Little Rock, AR: Peerless Engraving Co., [1935])

5 Remasculinizing Unemployed Youth: “We Can Take It” Ray Hoyt, We Can Take It (New York: American Book Co., 1935)

6 Wholesome homosociality Illustrations from Hoyt, “We Can Take It” (1935)

7 Cover of CCC pamphlet Bountiful meals and lusty appetites

8 Newly arrived enrollees at “Camp Roosevelt,” Virginia, 1935: Shown in “poorest physical condition”– To be photographed again later “to show improvement”

9 Hoyt, We Can Take It The “loosely- clad forestry worker”

10 Cover Detail, Woodsmanship for the CCC (USGPO, 1938)

11 Publicity Photo: Civilian Conservation Corps at an experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland. (Circa 1933)

12 Publicity Photo: Civilian Conservation Corps at an experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland

13 CCC Monument

14 Publicity photo: Shirtless CCC enrollees photographed with crosscut saw.

15 Personal Photo: CCC enrollees from East Orange, New Jersey posing shirtless.

16 Personal Photo: New Jersey enrollees

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18 Harry Rossell, “Spirit of CCC,” 1938. “A great white chain of camps”

19 “…hands hardened to the pick and shovel…” Illustration, Woodsmanship for the CCC (1938)

20 Photo credit: Errol Lincoln Uys, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move in the Great Depression (Routledge, 2003).


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