Dates: 1933-1983. Bulk Date Span: 1933-1944
The papers of Dean A. Snyder relate for the most part to his career with the CCC during the Great Depression. They also include some information about proposals in later years to establish a Youth Conservation Corps along the lines of the CCC. The collection contains printed materials, correspondence, memoranda, speeches and speech drafts, and other items.
Size: 2.8 linear feet (about 5,600 pages).
Access: Open
Copyright: Dean A. Snyder donated to the U.S. government his copyright interest in his unpublished writings in this collection, and in any other collection of papers in the custody of the U.S. government. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. The copyright interest in other documents in this collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Dennis Bilger and Randy Sowell (2003).
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1903 |
Born, Danville, Ohio |
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1925 |
Graduated with honors from Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio |
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1933-35 |
Assistant to the Chairman, Ohio Relief Commission |
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1935-40 |
Director of Selection, Civilian Conservation Corps, Washington, D.C. |
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1942-53 |
Official with the Federal Security Agency, serving as Deputy Commissioner for Special Services and (during World War II) as Deputy Director of Community War Services |
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1954-73 |
Defense Coordinator, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |
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1999 (May 7) |
Died |
The papers of Dean Atlee Snyder relate for the most part to his work with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of the many federal agencies created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Established in 1933, the CCC sought to alleviate chronic unemployment during the Great Depression by employing young men in reforestation, road construction, soil conservation, and flood control projects. From 1933 to 1935, Snyder worked for the Ohio Relief Commission and was principally responsible for selecting young men for service with the CCC in the state of Ohio. In January 1935, Snyder went to work for the federal government in Washington, and for the next five years he was in charge of supervising the selection of new CCC enrollees in all forty-eight states. His immediate superior was W. Frank Persons, director of the U.S. Employment Service. The CCC provided employment to more than two million young men before it was formally abolished in 1943.
Snyder's papers are divided into three series. The first series, the Civilian Conservation Corps File, contains correspondence, memoranda, printed materials, and other items relating to the CCC and Snyder's association with the agency from 1933 to 1940. Snyder was primarily concerned with the enrollment of new CCC members, and with the standards and procedures used by state selecting agencies in choosing young men for CCC work. This orientation is reflected in his papers, which include programs for regional conferences between representatives of the state selecting agencies and CCC officials from Washington. The Civilian Conservation Corps File also contains many memoranda and reports relating to the CCC selection process, statistical information about CCC workers, and a few letters expressing criticism of conditions at a CCC camp in Wisconsin.
The second series, the Personal File, consists for the most part of speeches and speech drafts prepared by Snyder, along with newspaper clippings, other printed items, and correspondence apparently collected by Snyder as background material for his speeches. Almost all of this material deals with the CCC. The Personal File also contains a few letters and memoranda dating from the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Snyder was an official with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. This material relates to the proposed creation of a Youth Conservation Corps similar to the Depression-era CCC.
The third series, the Printed Materials File, comprises more than two-thirds of the collection. It contains government reports, books, articles, pamphlets, and other published materials pertaining to the CCC and the problem of youth unemployment, along with a few unpublished items. The series includes articles written by Snyder himself, as well as handbooks and manuals produced by the CCC.
Further documentation of New Deal public works programs during the Great Depression can be found at the Truman Library in the Papers of Harry S. Truman, Papers as Presiding Judge of the Jackson County (Missouri) Court, which include information concerning Truman's tenure as Missouri State Director of the National Reemployment Service in 1933-34.
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CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS FILE, 1933-1940 Correspondence, memoranda, printed materials, and other items. Arranged in alphabetical order by folder title, and thereunder chronologically. |
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PERSONAL FILE, 1934-1983 Speeches and speech drafts, newspaper clippings, other printed materials, correspondence, and memoranda. Arranged in alphabetical order by folder title, and thereunder chronologically. |
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PRINTED MATERIALS FILE, 1933-1944 Government reports, books, articles, pamphlets, and other published materials, with a few unpublished items. Arranged in chronological order, with undated items and a bound compilation at the end of the series. |
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CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS FILE, 1933-1940
Box 1
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940 [1 of 6]
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940 [2 of 6]
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940 [3 of 6]
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940 [4 of 6]
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940 [5 of 6]
- Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940 [6 of 6]
Box 2
- Selection of Enrollees for the CCC-Reports and Summaries, 1937-1940
- Dean Snyder Speech Material, 1934-1983, Undated [1 of 3]
- Dean Snyder Speech Material, 1934-1983, Undated [2 of 3]
- Dean Snyder Speech Material, 1934-1983, Undated [3 of 3]
- Files of Dean Snyder With the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)
PRINTED MATERIALS FILE, 1933-1944
- "The Civilian Conservation Corps Program in the United States," (1934)
- First Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work, For the Period April 5, 1933 to September 30, 1933 (1934)
- A Handbook for the Educational Advisers in the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1934)
- Second Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work, For the Periods April 5, 1933 to September 30, 1933, and October 1, 1933 to March 31, 1934
Box 3
- Youth Rebuilds: Stories from the C.C.C. (1934)
- Handbook for Agencies Selecting Men for Emergency Conservation Work (1934)
- "The Educational Program in the Civilian Conservation Corps During the Third Enrollment Period," The Educational Record, January 1935
- "We Can Take It": A Short Story of the C.C.C. (1935), by Ray Hoyt
- Monthly Labor Review, May 1935; "Selection of Men for the Civilian Conservation Corps"
- Communist Propaganda Among American Youth, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, June 1935
- The School in the Camps: The Educational Program of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1935), by Frank Ernest Hill [with a typed summary]
- A Manual for Instructors in Civilian Conservation Corps Camps (1935)
- Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work . . .April 5, 1933 Through June 30, 1935 (1935, 1936)
- America's Town Meeting of the Air, February 27, 1936; "Young America Looks Forward"
- "The C.C.C. in Germany" by Arthur C. Ringland, Journal of Forestry, June 1936 [with report on the "Reich Labor Service"]
- Annual Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work, Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936
Box 4
- Facing the Problems of Youth, National Youth Administration, December 1936
- The Social Service Review, December 1936; "The Civilian Conservation Corps: Some Aspects of Its Social Program for Unemployed Youth" by Henry Coe Lanpher [with related correspondence]
- Youth . . . Leisure for Living (1936)
- This New America: The Story of the C.C.C. (1937), by A. C. Oliver, Jr. and Harold M. Dudley
- To Make the Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives . . . April 14 and 15, 1937 [with statement of Robert Fechner, Director, Emergency Conservation Work]
- The Phi Delta Kappan, May 1937; "Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps"
- Annual Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work, Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1937
- The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1937; "The Prospect for Youth"
- "The European Labor Service" by Kenneth Holland, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1937
- "CCC Auto Mechanics" by O. Wiederhold, 1937
- "Civilian Conservation Corps: Builder of Men" [program for fifth anniversary celebration, April 5, 1938]
- Monthly Labor Review, April 1938; "Selecting Youths for the C.C.C."
Box 5
- Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938
- Civilian Conservation Corps Activities, July 1, 1937-June 30, 1938
- Report of the Secretary of Labor for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938 [section on the CCC]
- Civilian Conservation Corps: Standards of Eligibility and Selection for Junior Enrollees-Department of Labor, August 1, 1938
- Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1939, 75th Congress, 2nd Session, 1938
- Youth in the World of Today-Public Affairs Pamphlet (1938)
- The CCC Through the Eyes of 272 Boys (1938), by Helen M. Walker
- To Make the Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency-Hearings Before the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, 76th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 2990 (1939)
- Civilian Conservation Corps: Standards of Eligibility and Selection for Junior Enrollees-June 15, 1939
- Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1939
- Excerpt From Annual Report of the Director, Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1939
- The American Forum of the Air, December 3, 1939; "What Can We Do About Our Youth Problem?"
- CCC Foremanship (1939)
- Rural Youth, National Youth Administration (1939)
- Various Publications on the CCC, and Bulletin on Snyder's Leaving the CCC, February 17, 1940
- First Annual Report of the Federal Security Administrator, 1940
Box 6
- Next Steps in National Policy for Youth: Recommendations of the American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education, c. 1940
- Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940
- The CCC at Work (1941)
- Youth and the Future, American Council on Education (1942)
- Consolidated Annual Reports: Federal Security Agency, 1941-1943 (1943)
- Civilian Conservation Corps Program of the United States Department of the Interior, March 1933 to June 30, 1943 (1944)
- "Prospects for Youth in Competing for Jobs," May 25, 1944
- Final Report of the National Youth Administration, Fiscal Years 1936-1943 (1944)
- CCC-Undated Pamphlets
Box 7
- Various Publications of the Civilian Conservation Corps [bound compilation, 1933-1941]