Young men cool off from a hot summer day’s labor at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Big Bend, circa 1935. The CCC was a major source of employment in Shasta County, which was particularly hard hit during the Great Depression.
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Photo courtesy of Shasta Historical Society
