Calif. Labor Camps Collection of Material, 1932-1935

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Title:: Collection of Material about California Labor Camps,
Dates:: 1932-1935
Abstract:: California unemployment labor camps were established in 1931 to provide transient, homeless people with food and shelter in exchange for work beneficial to the state, primarily in forestry and agriculture. This system was a forerunner to the Civilian Conservation Corps program. The collection consists of correspondence, memos, reports, and inventory lists made by individual California unemployment labor camp directors, and progress reports sent to California Governor James Rolph.
Extent:: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Language:: English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Collection of Material about California Labor Camps (Collection 493). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Scope and content:: Collection consists of correspondence, memos, reports, and inventory lists made by individual California unemployment labor camp directors. These documents were sent to Merritt B. Pratt, California State Forester, and also included in the collection is a file of Pratt's progress reports to California Governor James Rolph.
Biographical / historical:: California unemployment labor camps were established in 1931 to provide transient, homeless people with food and shelter in exchange for work beneficial to the state. Labor camps in California provided work primarily in forestry and agriculture. This system, an experiment in the handling of jobless men during the Great Depression, was a forerunner to the Civilian Conservation Corps program.
Acquisition information:: Argus Books, purchase, 1971.
Physical location:: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Subjects:: Labor camps--California--Archival resources.
Forests and forestry--California--Citizen participation.
Public service employment--California.
Names:: Pratt, Merritt B. (Merritt Berry), 1878- --Correspondence.
Pratt, Merritt B. (Merritt Berry), 1878- .

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
Date Prepared:: © 2002
Date Encoded:: Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, September 2001 . Frontmatter gathered from MARC record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.

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Restrictions:: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Terms of access:: Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Collection of Material about California Labor Camps (Collection 493). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US