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The Spirit of Youth: Resilience and Brotherhood in the Great Depression

This exploration delves into the lives of young men during the Great Depression, as captured in historical illustrations and photographs. Highlighting the experiences of those who traveled by freight trains and lived communally in settings like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), it discusses themes of masculinity, camaraderie, and the struggle for survival. The imagery communicates the dual narrative of hardship and the quest for identity, showcasing the grit and determination of youth who sought solace and purpose amidst economic turmoil.

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The Spirit of Youth: Resilience and Brotherhood in the Great Depression

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  1. Wandering Youth Imperiled “Scarcely a magazine appears today without pictures of young fellows jumping freight trains, huddled in box cars, cooking Mulligan stew in the jungle...” -Wayne McMillen Publicity Poster for William Wellman’s Wild Boys of the Road (Warner Brothers, 1933)

  2. No “Gold Brickers” or “Pansies” Hoyt, We Can Take It

  3. Illustration detail, Hysterical history of the C.C.C. (Little Rock, AR: Peerless Engraving Co., [1935])

  4. Remasculinizing Unemployed Youth: “We Can Take It” Ray Hoyt, We Can Take It (New York: American Book Co., 1935)

  5. Wholesome homosociality Illustrations from Hoyt, “We Can Take It” (1935)

  6. Bountiful meals and lusty appetites Cover of CCC pamphlet

  7. Newly arrived enrollees at “Camp Roosevelt,” Virginia, 1935:Shown in “poorest physical condition”– To be photographed again later “to show improvement”

  8. The “loosely-clad forestry worker” Hoyt, We Can Take It

  9. Cover Detail, Woodsmanship for the CCC (USGPO, 1938)

  10. Publicity Photo: Civilian Conservation Corps at an experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland. (Circa 1933)

  11. Publicity Photo: Civilian Conservation Corps at an experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland

  12. CCC Monument

  13. Publicity photo: Shirtless CCC enrollees photographed with crosscut saw.

  14. Personal Photo: CCC enrollees from East Orange, New Jersey posing shirtless.

  15. Personal Photo: New Jersey enrollees

  16. Personal Photo: New Jersey enrollees

  17. “A great white chain of camps” Harry Rossell, “Spirit of CCC,” 1938.

  18. “…hands hardened to the pick and shovel…” Illustration, Woodsmanship for the CCC (1938)

  19. Photo credit: Errol Lincoln Uys, Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move in the Great Depression (Routledge, 2003).

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