Seeking information on Little America

Dear Mr. Pry,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

We searched the National Archives Catalog and and located a series titled Camp Inspection Reports, 1933 - 1942 in the Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps (Record Group 35) that includes the file unit titled Nebraska: BR-53 – Mitchell, Sioux County Information in the file unit contains activities conditions at the camp plus that “BR-53” housed Company No. 759.

We also located two additional series in the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917 - 1981 (Record Group 407). The first is titled Records Relating to the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933 - 1943 and includes administrative information about the CCC camps. As Nebraska Camps were located in Army Corp Area VII and the records were arranged chronologically by region, relevant information is scattered from Boxes 352 - 378. The second series is titled Civilian Conservation Corps Company History Cards by Company Number, 1933 - 1942 that contains a card for Company No. 759 and provides a history and movements since its organization at Ft. Crook, Nebraska on 26 October 1934 through disbandment at Nebraska, BR-96 on 25 March 1942.

The staff of the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference (RDT2) will be pleased to make the finding aids to all three series available to you or your representative in the Textual Research Room located 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, near the University of Maryland--College Park campus. The Textual Research Room (Room 2000) hours are 8:45 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays. The RDT2 consultation room hours are 8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays. No appointment is necessary. Prior to your visit, please consult College Park websites at https://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/,  https://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/self-service-copying.html, and https://www.archives.gov/research/start/getting-started.pdf.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your research!

Afternoon Dennis,

Just seeing your post - if camp BR-53 is in fact what you're interested in, the National Archives at Denver also has a few files of administrative records from that camp - the BR suffix standing for Bureau of Reclamation, the bulk of which agency records are out here in Denver.  Our records have it stood up on June 17, 1935 with Company 759, but called Camp Mitchell. While it started in Scotts Bluff County on Spotted Tail Creek working on irrigation projects associated with the North Platte Project, later work reports do list Sioux County too. Here's the Catalog link to the search to give you an idea of the folder names and topics;

https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=BR-53&f.locationIds=22