A NationWide System of Parks

This Department of Interior film examines the origins of the Civilian Conservation Corps and profiles various accomplishments of the group in helping to build our nation's parks.

Transcript (PDF): http://www.archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-nationwide-system-of-parks-1939-11730.pdf

Creator: Department of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures.
Series: Motion Picture Film Documentation of the Diverse Activities of the Department of the Interior, 1916 - 1976
Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 - 2009

Production Date: 1939

SUMMARY
In part 1, unemployed workers stand in line at the gates of closed factories. It shows views of South Carolina's Edista State Park and Myrtle Beach State Park, and Georgia's Santo Domingo State Park. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) men work in the park, destroy caterpillars and other pests, transplant trees, attend classes, and feed animals. It shows the home of Alexander Stevens, vice president of the Confederacy, being renovated. Part 2 shows various views of State parks in Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Texas. CCC men work in the parks.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov

SUBJECTS
Animals
Civilians
American Civil War
Stevens, Alexander
Department of the Interior. National Park Service.(1916 -1933 ), Producer
Edisto Island (Charleston county, South Carolina)
Myrtle Beach State Park (Horry county, South Carolina)

National Archives Identifier: 11730
Local Identifier: 48.99

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/11730

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