[Civilian Conservation Corps] : Kahoka, Missouri: [ca. 1938-1940]. 11” x 8 1/2” handmade scrapbook consisting of an approximately 50pp. printed booklet and 20 leaves of black album paper, all wrapped in plain black card. First seven album leaves holding 40 snapshot and small portrait photographs. Three additional snapshots and a printed/typed discharge document laid-in loose. All about very good.

A vernacular production documenting the family life and Civilian Conservation Corps service of a Claudie E. Phillips (b.1918 - d.1944), originally of Greensburg, Missouri. The volume consists of a printed series of generic blank leaves intended as a keepsake for CCC enrollees, with text and printed images specific to Camp Progress and its 3745th Company located at Kohoka, Missouri. Kahoka-specific text includes a brief history of the Camp's founding, description of its conservation work, and detailed roster of leadership and enrolees (accurate as of about 1938). Additionally laid-in and mounted are more than 40 original snapshots and small portrait photographs capturing Corps service and Phillips' family.

Kahoka is a small city of about 2,000 residents in Knox County in the northeastern corner of the state some 30 miles west of Keokuk, Iowa on U.S. Highway 136. The Camp at Kahoka was founded June 1, 1935 and operated until at least 1940 with a focus on soil and water conservation and we note mention of an active rock quarry in scattered, archived newspaper reports on its activities. 

Phillips served beginning in April of 1938 and his October 1940 draft card notes employment still with Company 3745 (which by then had relocated to Columbia). The only other record of him we find in typical reference is a headstone application submitted his mother following Claudie's February 1, 1944 death during European service in the 394th Infantry Regiment of the Army's 99th Infantry Division.