Drawing
- Title:
- Barrack #5
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 2009.026.034 b
- Creator:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
Artist - Date:
- 1936/03/09
- Description:
- Drawing, Barrack #5, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1936. Pencil on paper. Six sketches of CCC workers in barracks; two sketches depict men playing cards. Identified in pencil as "Mar 9 '36 / Barrack #5". Three men are identified as "Bill", "Carl", and "Johnston". Unframed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-11.1 W-8.55 inches
- Provenance:
- George C. Soule (1914-2008) of Manchester, NH, was an artist with the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Hampshire, 1935-1937. He was assigned to draw portraits of CCC workers and to document camp life in the 118th Company, CCC, East Jaffrey, NH. He studied art at Yale and became an architect in Manchester. He operated the firm of Soule & Associates from the 1950s through the 1980s. He designed schools, churches, houses, and a wide variety of commercial buildings in southern NH and southern New England. The collection was donated by the children of George Soule.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Patricia, Cynthia, and Peter Soule
- People:
- Soule, George C. (1914-2008)
- Subjects:
- Camp life, Cards, Card games, Card playing, Barracks
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