"Metal troughs"

DESCRIPTION:

In many cases, NYA training focused on the production of materials needed by other government entities, such as Army bunks or, in this case, feeding troughs. These may have been intended for state or national parks or farm relief projects, which were often beneficiaries of NYA labor.

 

CAPTION:

(On back) "NYA youth constructing metal troughs to be used as feeding troughs for wild animals on conservation projects."

 

DATE:

1939-1943.

 

SUBJECTS:

Unknown.

 

CONTEXT:

Founded as one of many New Deal programs designed to alleviate joblessness at the height of the Great Depression, the National Youth Administration established job training and "work experience" programs across the country from 1935 to 1943. Utilizing several nonessential buildings at the Naval Ordnance Plant from 1939 to 1943, the South Charleston program quickly became one of the largest in the country, topping out at roughly 700 youth in 1941-42. While its early stages only included white males aged 17-24, the program later expanded to include female youth and African-Americans.

 

SOURCE:

National Archives, RG119-S. Box 27, Folder K

 

CREATOR/ORIGIN:

Unknown/National Youth Administration

 

MEDIUM:

Photographic Print, B&W

 

COPYRIGHT:

None known.

 

DID#:

119-S-27K_NYA_019_front_PR

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