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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, October 11, 1936
Exit Hard-Boiled Cop
No arguments, no arrogance, no sarcasm - be courteous! That’s the order given all Detroit traffic policemen under a “new deal” for the motorist. Traffic Officer Joseph Hemeryck is shown practicing his good manners on a traffic violator.
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LIFE Magazine, November 23, 1936
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No Beer Sold to Indians, LIFE magazine, November 28, 1936
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Lunch in workcamp, Oneida, Idaho, May 1936
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Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California, February 1936
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Family of pea-pickers return to camp after a long day’s work in the field, Santa Clara, California, April 1937
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Nu Deel Sandwich Shoppe, Ennis, Texas, 1937
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Farm Labor Camp, West Virginia, 1942
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Family at the FSA farm labor camp, Batavia, New York, 1942
Manual labor camps (Civilian Conservation Corps) as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. At the height of the program there were 300,000 young men age 17 -28 helping to plant billions of trees and creating over 800 national parks. They also worked on bridges and fire towers, roads and footpaths, flood control and erosion control, fish stocking, mosquito control, removal of predatory animals, rip-rapping, surveying and irrigation.
Men were provided with shelter, clothing, food and $30 a month ($25 of which was to be sent home to their families).
The camps included a mess hall, tents for the men and for the staff, lavatories, garages, blacksmith shops, administrative buildings, entertainment halls and education halls.
In the nine years the program was in place over 3 million men were enrolled.
