Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees, cooks, and instrument with the camp dogs posed before facilities and tents in summer.
Image shows enrollee using fire fighting equipment shooting a stream of water in the middle of a scorched forest. CCC helped in fighting fires on Isle Royale and in Cook County, Minnesota.
CCC crew fought the forest fires of 1936, a year when there were many fires burning. Shown is a birch tree on fire taken by enrollee Albert Malner on Long Island (possibly Lake Saganaga or Long Island Lake)
An image of an open field with CCC workers planting trees shows men bent over, planting seedlings from their crates. Stamped on back of photo is Joseph R. Florian.
Five or so CCC enrollees are in this image and are being instructed on the use of the marine pumper shown. Scrapbook information from enrollee Albert Malner indicates that "this machine pumped water thru 5230 ft of hose." It is labeled as an Austin 4 cylinder.
Five CCC enrollees are shown pushing what looks like a stove on a wheelbarrow up the trail to the top of Lima Mountain using "modern transportation." From the scrapbook of Albert Malner, enrollee and later Cook County Sheriff.
CCC enrollee chops at fallen tree as forest fire approaches on Isle Royale, Michigan (the Lake Superior island is historically connected to Cook County, Minnesota).
Image shows a crew of 15 or more young men in an cleared area of land carrying on their backs crates of trees to plant and the tools to do it. Stamped on back is Joseph R. Florian.
Image of CCC building in Hovland, MN, that was still standing and used for storage by possibly both the highway department and the forest service until the 1990s. Rock walls and stairs from this camp can still be seen on the Arrowhead Trail in Hovland.
Image of CCC building in Hovland that was still standing until the 1990s shows a sign on the door that identifies the building as "Hovland Ranger Station."
Unidentified man shown in from of the log and canvas tent headquarters tent at the Rose Lake Portage Camp in 1935. From the scrapbook of Albert Malner, enrollee and later Cook County Sheriff.
Young men of Company 1722 of the Civilian Conservation Corps are gathered outside a building built with vertical logs. The men wear coats and boots. Four men in the center are dressed in white and are possibly the camp cooks.