Ivan D. Wood, Civilian Conservation Corps
Photographs
Title: Ivan D. Wood,
Civilian Conservation Corps Photographs
Creator: Wood,
Ivan D, 1888-1978
Dates: 1933-1935
Quantity: 1 box (0.25 linear feet)
Collection Number: RG 11-04-06
Language: English
Restrictions: None
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Preferred Citation: Ivan D. Wood, Civilian Conservation Corps, Photographs (RG 11-04-06). Archives
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Biography:
Ivan Daley Wood was born in 1888 in La Platte, Nebraska. He graduated with a B.A. and
M.S. in agricultural engineering from the University of Nebraska (NU) in 1912 and
1914. He is considered the first person in the United States to receive a Master
degree in agricultural engineering and is nationally recognized for his farm
structure and soil conservation designs.
In 1919, Wood joined the NU faculty as an Agricultural Extension Engineer. He taught
courses on land drainage and erosion control and oversaw the building of dams and
terraces in 37 counties, including 18,216 acres, and 549 farms throughout Nebraska.
In 1934-35, he served as the State Emergency Conservation Work Director and
supervised 17 United States Forest Service and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
erosion control camps. He was appointed Chief of Engineering for the Great Plains
Shelterbelt Project in 1935 and supervised federal engineering projects in six
states.
In 1940, Wood worked as a National Extension Program Leader in irrigation for the US
Department of Agriculture and became a Soil Conservation Service irrigation engineer
five years later, in 1945. He moved to Denver, Colorado in 1951 and served as
President of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) from 1952-53. In
1952, he received the ASAE John Deere Gold Medal award for his work in irrigation
and erosion control. He recieved an honorary Doctor of Agriculture degree in 1954
from NU for his pioneering work in irrigation and soil conservation. He died in
Colorado in 1948.
Scope and Content:
The Wood Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) photographs document the labor of the CCC,
including erosion control, dam building, and terracing in Buffalo, Harlan, Johnson,
and Pawnee counties, Nebraska, from 1933-1935. The photograph index is based on the
descriptions written on the back of each photograph.
Subjects:
Wood, Ivan D, 1888-1978
Soil conservation
Soil erosion -- United States
Buffalo County (Neb.)
Harlan County (Neb.)
Johnson County (Neb.)
Pawnee County (Neb.)
Ravenna (Neb.)
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Container List:
Series 1: Civilian Conservation Corps PhotographsBox 1. Folder 1. Envelope, note by Charles Fowler, 1954(?)
Box 1. Folder 2. Photographs no. 1-30, 1934-1935Item 1. CCC at Ravenna. Concrete structure in terraced field to drain
the excess water into a natural drainage and prevent
erosion, 1935
Item 2. Dam failure, south of Alma, Nebraska, 1935
Item 3. Terracing in Harlan County with CCC labor, 1934
Item 4. Grading a grassed terrace waterway in Harlan
County, 1934
Item 5. Graded spillway with brush dam structure, 1934-1935
Item 6. Graded spillway with brush dam structure, 1934-1935
Item 7. Terrace spillway and a future hay meadow, 1934-1935
Item 8. Farm pond created by an earth dam in a gully built by CCC
labor, Alma, Nebraska, 1934
Item 9. Building a terrace for moisture control in Harlan County with
CCC labor, 1934
Item 10. Work crew in soil erosion program in Harlan
County, 1934
Item 11. Earth dam for farm pond in Harlan County, 1934
Item 12. Earth dam in Harlan County with low brush structure in
spillway, 1934-1935
Item 13. Building earth dams for farm ponds and gully control in
Harlan County with CCC labor, 1934
Item 14. Building earth dams for farm ponds and gully control in
Harlan County with CCC labor, 1934
Item 15. Building earth dams for farm ponds and gully control in
Harlan County with CCC labor, 1934
Item 16. Finishing earth dam in Harlan County with CCC labor and
supervisory personnel, 1934
Item 17. Building earth dams for a farm pond in Harlan County with CCC
labor, 1934
Item 18. Engineering staff for soil erosion work in Harlan
County, 1934
Item 19. Building an earth dam for a farm pond near Alma, Nebraska,
with CCC labor, 1934
Item 20. 20. Building an earth dam for a farm pond near Alma,
Nebraska, with CCC labor, 1934
Item 21. Finishing an earth stock water damn near Alma, Nebraska, with
CCC labor, 1934
Item 22. Building an earth dam for a farm pond in Harlan County with
CCC labor, 1934
Item 23. Building an earth dam for a farm pond near Alma, Nebraska,
with CCC labor, 1934
Item 24. Building an earth dam in Harlan County with CCC
labor, 1934
Item 25. Hand finishing an earth dam with CCC labor in Harlan County
with CCC labor, 1934
Item 26. Building an earth dam for a farm pod in Harlan County with
CCC labor, 1934
Item 27. Earth dam to control a deep gully in a medium watershed area
in Harlan County, 1934
Item 28. Building a terrace with CCC labor in Harlan
County, 1934
Item 29. Building a terrace with CCC labor in Harlan
County, 1934
Item 30. Building a terrace with CCC labor in Harlan
County, 1934
Box 1. Folder 3. Photographs no. 31-75, 1934-1935Item 31. Terrace built in Harlan County with CCC labor, 1934
Item 32. Terrace built in Harlan County with CCC labor, 1934
Item 33. Concrete drop in a terrace waterway outlet in Harlan
County, 1934
Item 34. Earth dam, 1934-1935
Item 35. Earth dam, 1934-1935
Item 36. Earth dam finished spillway ready for seeding, 1934-1935
Item 37. Soil erosion work in Alma, Nebraska, 1934-1935
Item 38. Soil erosion work in Alma, Nebraska, 1934-1935
Item 39. Gully control with brush dam check, Johnson
County, 1935
Item 40. Gully control with brush dam check, Johnson
County, 1935
Item 41. Three stages of an intermediate post and brush gully control
structure in Pawnee County, 1935
Item 42. Three stages of an intermediate post and brush gully control
structure in Pawnee County, 1935
Item 43. Gulley control with brush check dam, Johnson
County, 1935
Item 44. Johnson County, 1935. Farm pond by earth dam, CCC labor.
Spillway ribbed with low brush checks. Job checked 10 years later
and spillway well grassed and brush was still visible, 1934-1935
Item 45. Earth dam, finished spillway, ready for seeding, 1934-1935
Item 46. Starting to weave hedge limbs and brush in the hedge post
anchors, 1934-1935
Item 47. Working on brush dam. All anchor posts and brush were from
hedge rows around pastures, 1934-1935
Item 48. Starting a brush dam in a gully, 1934-1935
Item 49. CCC camp grounds, Tecumseh, 1935
Item 50. CCC camp in fairgrounds at edge of Tecumseh, Johnson
County, 1935
Item 51. CCC campsite in Tecumseh fairgrounds, 1934-1935
Item 52. Building an earth dam for a farm pond and gully control in
Pawnee County, with CCC labor, 1935
Item 53. Post and brush gully control structures in Pawnee
County, 1935
Item 54. Post and brush gully control structures in Pawnee
County, 1935
Item 55. Earth gully with control structure with a corrugated tube
outlet in Pawnee County, 1935
Item 56. Post and brush gully control structures in Pawnee
County, 1935
Item 57. Starting a gully post and brush control structure at the head
of a gully in Pawnee County, 1935
Item 58. Gully tube controlled in Pawnee County, 1935
Item 59.Terrace outlet built by CCC in Pawnee County, 1935
Item 60. Unidentified photo, 1934-1935
Item 61. Pawnee City CCC camp barracks, 1934
Item 62. Pawnee City CCC camp barracks, 1934
Item 63. Flood damage south of Ravenna. Middle Loup River. Ravenna
CCC. Company sent to Cambridge to help in initial cleanup in towns
along the Republican after 1935 flood, 1935
Item 64. Flood damage on Republican River. Car partly buried in silt,
washed out of hills into Republican River, 1935
Item 65. Hurricane south of Grand Island, 1935
Item 66. CCC men, Pawnee City, 1934
Item 67. CCC men, Pawnee City, 1934
Item 68. Three stages of a brush type gully control structure in
Pawnee County, 1935
Item 69. 5 stages of a large post and brush gully control structure,
Pawnee County, 1935
Item 70. Men working on post placed across gully, 5 stages of a large
post and brush gully control structure, Pawnee County, 1935
Item 71. Posts across gully, 5 stages of a large post and brush gully
control structure, Pawnee County, 1935
Item 72. Post tops sticking out of brush in gully, 5 stages of a large
post and brush gully control structure, Pawnee County, 1935
Item 73. Post and brush gully control structures in Pawnee
County, 1935
Item 74. Post and brush gully control structures in Pawnee
County, 1935
Item 75. Post and brush gully control structures in Pawnee
County, 1935
Box 1. Folder 4. Photographs no. 76-92, negatives of Alma, Harlan County,
Nebraska, 1933-1934Item 76. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 77. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 78. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 79. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 80. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 81. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 82. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 83. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 84. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 85. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 86. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 87. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 88. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 89. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 90. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 91. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Item 92. Alma, Harlan County negatives, 1933-1934
Box 1. Folder 5. Negatives, soil erosion control work at Tecumseh, Pawnee City,
Ravenna with note on soil erosion, Tecumseh soil types, hedge planting,
and dams, 1934-1935
Box 1. Folder 6. Negatives, soil erosion control work in Pawnee and Buffalo
counties, 1935
Box 1. Folder 7. Unlabeled negatives, 1934-1935
Related Material and Resources: Colorado State University houses the Ivan D. Wood Papers including published
articles, research, speeches, photographs, and slides. Access to the finding aid is
available at The Water
Resources Archive.Biographical information on Wood comes from his 1935 civil service application from
RG 52-01-01 Biographical and Bibliography Records, "From the Archives-Ivan D. Wood,"The Scarlet, April 24, 2008, and W.E. Splinter, "Ivan
Wood," in Biological Systems Engineering Department History, 15-16. |