This collection includes primarily photocopies of published and archival materials collected about the life and times of the Yuma area during the 1930’s. It includes reminiscences of Yuma residents, who experienced the Great Depression, as well as those people passing through Yuma on their migration to California. Of special interest are the file of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the Yuma area, the 1935 Yuma CCC Camp newsletter, The Sandune, and transients and hobos file. Also significant are reference photocopies of Yuma/Colorado River area photos in the U.S. National Archives from the Farm Service Administration that contain the work of noted photographers Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee.
