Orick Humboldt County Prairie Creek Aerial Civilian Conservation Corps Camp 1933 Real Photo Postcard

U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp 1903 at Prairie Creek, near Orick, California, was part of a significant New Deal program established in 1933 during the Great Depression. The CCC provided employment for young, unmarried, unemployed men, offering them wages, food, and shelter in exchange for manual labor on conservation and natural resource development projects across the United States. This camp, visible in the aerial perspective, would have housed hundreds of enrollees.