Description: Reverse reads: "Camp Clinton - S.C.S. & Co. 3502. Wilmington, Ohio. Sept. 1937 Interior view of wood working shop, showing camp boys operating lathes and saw. Photo by Federal Writers' Project. Office copy." This is a photo of three men practicing their woodworking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F11_006_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Carpentry; Lathes; Saws
Places: Wilmington (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 15, 1937, this photograph shows three Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) members from Camp Clinton in Wilmington, Ohio, in Clinton County, cutting a tree with a cross cut saw. Camp Clinton was first occupied by the Civilian Conservation Corps on July 22, 1935. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program established as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that employed young men, ages 18-25 and later expanded to ages 17-28, with jobs in the natural resources field. This is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F11_021_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Saws; New Deal; Labor; Young men; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Wilmington (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 15, 1937, this photograph shows two Civilian Conservation Corps members removing a tree stump during camp clean up at Camp Butler in Hamilton in Butler County, Ohio. A caption accompanying the photograph reads "Camp Butler - S.C.S. 6 - Co. 3533. Hamilton, Ohio. Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) boys sawing tree stump during camp clean up. Photo by Federal Writers' Project. Office copy." The Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program established as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that employed young men, ages 18-25 and later expanded to ages 17-28, with jobs in the natural resources field. This is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F11_047_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Saws; Stump removal (Tree stumps); New Deal; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: Saw to Make the Logs; Logs to Make the Fire at the Sugar Bush (Near Chardon in Geauga County) Photographer: E.P. Moody. March 1941. Maple syrup season begins in January, ending around April in Ohio, and while trees are tapped all over the state, Geauga County has some of the state's best, and hosts the state's Maple Syrup Festival every spring. Traditionally, maple syrup is harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which requires daily collecting. Less labor-intensive methods, such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines, have since superseded this in all but cottage-scale production. It takes approximately 10 gal. of sap to be boiled down to 1 quart of syrup, and a mature sugar maple produces about 10 gal. of sap during the 4- to 6-week sugaring season under gravity, but can produce 20 or more gallons under vacuum. Trees are not tapped until they have a diameter of 10 in. at chest-height and the tree is at least 40 years old. If the tree is more than 18 in., it can be tapped twice on opposite sides View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F17_009_1
Subjects: Maple Syrup Industry; Maple syrup--Pictorial works; Saws--1940-1950.
Places: Chardon (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)