Bill Tankersley from the NYA's Camp Roosevelt posing in front of an airplane - Ocala, Florida

Title

• Bill Tankersley from the NYA's Camp Roosevelt posing in front of an airplane - Ocala, Florida

Image Number

• N036042

Year

• ca 1940

Series Title

• General: General collection

General Note

• Camp Roosevelt, located in Ocala just off highway 301/441, was a resident camp first built for the Army Corps of Engineer crews of the Cross Florida Barge Canal. From 1936 to early 1938, the WPA and the University of Florida assumed ownership for providing adult education classes. Later in 1938, the National Youth Administration (NYA) used it as a girls resident camp ? in conjunction with the Marion County Vocational School -- to educate and provide job skills to young women (later boys were included). During the 1940s, the NYA conducted defense work out of it, before in 1943 it reverted back to the Army Corps of Engineers. By the late 20th Century, the buildings were part of a residential neighborhood.



General Note

• Printed on sleeve: Vocational School, Secondary Flight Class.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 3 x 4 in.

Subject Term

• New Deal, 1933-1939
• Public welfare
• Vocational education
• Men--Florida--Marion County--Ocala
• Young men--Florida--Marion County--Ocala
• Airports--Florida--Marion County--Ocala
• Airplanes
• Air pilots
• Flight training

Geographic Term

• Ocala (Fla)
• Marion County (Fla)

Personal Subject

• Tankersley, Bill

Subject Corporate

• United States--National Youth Administration
• United States--Works Progress Administration
• Marion County Vocational School (Ocala, Fla)

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