Road paving on the Blue Ridge Parkway
About this photograph
This photograph is part of the online exhibit, "Works Projects in North Carolina, 1933-1941" and is published courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.
- Date created
- c. 1933
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State Archives
See this photograph in context
- The Great Depression and World War II: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945). (Page 2.11)
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- Search LEARN NC for 20th century, Blue Ridge Parkway, Civilian Conservation Corps, Great Depression, history, North Carolina, and Works Progress Administration.
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- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
This image from the North Carolina State Archives exhibit, “Works Projects in North Carolina, 1933-1941″ shows Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) workers paving a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The dump truck bed is lifted and asphalt is being poured into a paving machine. A new layer of asphalt is on the road behind the truck.
