The Richard Crossley Civilian Conservation Corps photograph album contains two documents and approximately 90 snapshot views of Civilian Conservation Corps Camps in Ravenna and Broken Bow, Nebraska, as well as Fort Scott, Kansas.
The album (19 x 25.5 cm) has blue felt covers with orange felt bear skin spelling "C.C.C/Civilian Corps" sewn on to the front. Images include views of young men in uniform, a CCC camp, and an airbase, as well as photographs of a man (likely Richard Crossley at Fort Scott) dressed in full uniform and the same man holding aloft an Air Corps Technical School diploma. Also present are two documents are present including a membership card for CCC Company 2732 as well as honorable discharge papers.
Richard B. Crossley was born to William and Vesta Crossley in Maywood, Nebraska, in 1920. From 1938 to 1939, Richard was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp SCS-10 in Ravenna, Nebraska, in Soil Conservation Service. In June of 1939, he transferred into Camp SCS-26 in Broken Bow when it opened and worked there as an Assistant Educational Adviser. In December of 1939, he left to attend college. In December of 1940, he enlisted in the Air Corps in North Platte, Nebraska.
