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1. National Youth Administration for Minnesota Photo Album, Volume 1
- Creator:
- National Youth Administration
- Date Created:
- 1935 - 1939
- Description:
- The National Youth Administration (NYA) program, which was part of the New Deal programs in the 1930s, focused on providing work and education for people between the ages of 16 and 25. This volume focuses on the NYA resident camp in Shakopee, Minnesota, as well as NYA construction projects around the state, including building roadside rest areas with stone walls, barbeques, fire pits, and picnic tables in Stillwater, Glenwood, and Winona; retaining walls and stairways in Lester Park in Duluth; a historic roadside marker for Highway 10 outside of St. Cloud; log cabins in Lake Bemidji State Park and in Chisholm; and buildings in Alexandria including Noonan Park, Glenwood, Minneapolis, St. Paul and a proposed field house in St. Cloud that would become Brainard Hall at St. Cloud State University. Other locations included are Pine Lake near Aitken, Lion's Spring near Eveleth, garage in Cromwell, caddy house at University golf course in Minneapolis, Brighton Beach Municipal Tourist Park in Duluth, town hall in Outing, stone bath house in Gilbert, trout pool dam in Cannon Falls, and an aquarium at Tamarac Refuge near Detroit Lakes. Volume 1 of 2.
- Contributing Institution:
- St. Cloud State University
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Photograph albums
2. National Youth Administration for Minnesota Photo Album, Volume 2
- Creator:
- National Youth Administration
- Date Created:
- 1935 - 1939
- Description:
- The National Youth Administration (NYA) program, which was part of the New Deal programs in the 1930s, focused on providing work and education for people between the ages of 16 and 25. This volume focuses on NYA efforts to improve the great outdoors of Minnesota as well as other work done by the NYA to educate and improve the health of its members. Images show men and women visiting with doctors and nurses, working in offices, gardens, and cemeteries, fixing engines, gardens, making clothing, repairing buildings, creating artwork, working with children, and other construction projects. Identified locations include a community center in St. Cloud, ski jumping slide in Glenwood, and Lester Park in Duluth. Volume 2 of 2.
- Contributing Institution:
- St. Cloud State University
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- Photograph albums
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