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

Hoyt, We Can Take It

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

Ray Hoyt, Ray Hoyt, We Can Take It We Can Take It (New (New York: American Book Co., 1935)York: American Book Co., 1935)

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

Cover of CCC pamphlet

Hoyt, We Can Take It

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

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

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

CCC Monument

Publicity photo: Shirtless CCC enrollees photographed with crosscut saw.

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

Personal Photo: New Jersey enrolleesPersonal Photo: New Jersey enrollees

Personal Photo: New Jersey enrolleesPersonal Photo: New Jersey enrollees

Harry Rossell, “Spirit of CCC,” 1938.

Illustration, Illustration, Woodsmanship for the CCC Woodsmanship for the CCC (1938)(1938)

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