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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: N2007- 8
Creator: Foster, Charles C.
Title, Dates: New Deal-era photographs, 1936-1942.
Amount: 5 photographs
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Biographical/Historical:     The National Youth Administration (NYA) was a New Deal project that operated from 1935 to 1943, providing work to young men and women between the ages of 16 and 25. Initially part of the Works Progress Administration, the NYA transferred to the Federal Security Agency in 1939, then to the War Manpower Commission in 1942 until its discontinuance in 1943.

    The Camp Roosevelt Project was an adult education extension program jointly operated in Ocala, Florida, by the University of Florida and the Works Progress Administration beginning in 1936. Its location had formerly been a United States Corps of Engineer Camp. In 1938, the NYA used it as a resident camp to educate and provide job skills to young women, and later included boys as well. The NYA conducted defense work out of it from 1939 until 1943, when the camp reverted back to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Summary:     This collection consists of photographs taken by Charles Foster, an employee of the National Youth Administration. The images depict Governor Dave Sholtz leading the band at NYA Camp Roosevelt in Ocala, steam valves of the historic tug boat Three Friends in Jacksonville, the Works Progress Administration-built monument of Lower Matecumbe, an arts and crafts festival in Defuniak Springs in 1938, and a defense training class at Camp Roosevelt in 1942.
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Associated Materials: For more images of the National Youth Administration and Camp Roosevelt, and for more of Charles Foster's photographs, see Collection M82-5, the General Photographic Collection.
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General Note: This collection has been added to the General Photographic Collection (Collection M82-5). See that collection for information on access.
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Subject Access Fields: United States. Work Projects Administration.
United States. Works Progress Administration.
United States. National Youth Administration.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Photographs. aat
De Funiak Springs (Fla.)
Jacksonville (Fla.)
Ocala (Fla.)
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