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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
HOWARD A. WOLBERT (1915 - 1946)
Album kept as a Civilian Conservation Corps worker in western New York. 139 photographs, most well-captioned, on 49 album leaves. Oblong 4to, (7x11 inches; 180x280 mm), original string-bound cloth boards, minimal wear; just a few photos detached. Various places, bulk 1935-1937.
Wolbert had been a Buffalo factory worker. From October 1935 to March 1936, he was employed in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program which provided work to the unemployed in conjunction with the WPA. His work crew spent time in Lisle, Whitney Point, and Binghamton (all in Broome County), and at Chautauqua Lake near the state's western tip. The crew is shown chopping trees with axes, loading wheelbarrows, and clearing brush, in addition to many posed portraits of crew members. Several leisure images show the camp baseball team in action, with many of the players named with their positions; Wolbert was the catcher. A few family photos are interspersed, some dating back to 1929, but the great bulk of images are from Wolbert's CCC work.
With--3 other CCC items:
Green cap, size 7, with CCC patch and CCC "Safety League 3 in 1" pinback; minimal wear to cap, moderate wear to pinback. Philadelphia: Bressler Hat & Cap Co., 1940.
Printed book, "Hysterical History of the C.C.C. 1934." 64 pages illustrated with cartoons, plus 16 additional leaves used as a scrapbook and autograph album by CCC member Grant Fox of Company 1319, Camp 7 in Kane, PA. Little Rock, AR: Peerless Engraving, 1934.
Printed book, "C.C.C. Annual 1936, District No. 1, Third Corps Area." 232 pages. Yearbook with company rosters and group portraits, inscribed at rear by CCC member Anthony Matukonis of Pottsville, PA of Company 341, Camp 104.
