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This is a photograph showing enrollees in the reading room during leisure time at the Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 786, at Camp Lake Wellington near Wellington, Kansas. The photograph was copied from The Observer, a supplement to the Wellington Daily News, July 4, 1940.
Creator: The Observer
Date: July 4, 1940
Item Number: 314346
Call Number: MF6026
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 314346
Collections - Newspaper
Date - 1940s - 1940
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Civilian Conservation Corps
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - Illustrations
People - African Americans
Places - Cities and towns - Wellington
Places - Counties - Sumner
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Newspapers - Illustrations
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