Road Builders Photo Gallery
These photographs have been scanned from those in the NPS archives.
Many have been donated to the NPS by the original Road Builders.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Earth and rocks were moved by hand.
Local Experienced Men with the blacksmith known as Pat in front.
One of Rim Rock Drive's three tunnels under construction.
A winter morning at the Glade Park Camp.
Push cars on tracks were used to removed earth and rocks.
The proliferation of the automobile spurred the road's creation.
Dust and rock falls near one of the tunnels.
Jackhammer operators.
Donald McLaren, Capt. Lawrence Collins, & Dr. Gaines Levy Brightwell.
Glade Park Camp group photo.
Leroy Lewis at the Fruita Ladders, the quick but risky way up and down the monument.
Fruita Camp NM-3-C before wooden barracks were built.
Close-up of NM-3-C barracks tents.
Fruita Camp NM-3-C. The much improved wooden barracks were called the "Taj Mahal" by the men.
Camp cooks Elmer Claude, Jack Supp, Marvin Anthony, & Bernard Miller.
Carting away rock by hand after a blast.
The Half-Tunnel. Nine local men who were clearing away rocks died here tragically,
December 12, 1933, when a nearby blast loosened the cliff above and brought
it down upon them.
Leroy Lewis stands before the monument entrance sign.
Break time.
Judson E. Harman of the CCC.
NM-2-C at Saddle Horn, near the present-day campground and Visitor Center.
NM-1-C at the Coke Ovens, the first CCC camp at the Monument. The wooden
barracks are still under construction.
NM-1-C completed.
NM-1-C completed.
The work day begins with a roll-out at NM-2-C, near the present-day Visitor Center.
A tilted hand car loaded with rocks.
Fruita Camp NM-3-C, Headquarters Company 825 camp officers.
Tending a makeshift furnace in a makeshift metal shop.
The Glade Park Camp.
Huge air compressors provided the energy for the jackhammers.
John Biggs, Leroy Lewis, & Thurlow Pitts at play.
Waiting in the chow line for a well-earned hot meal.
Trucks were loaded by hand with rock to be removed.
NM-3-C, the Fruita Camp, after the completion of the new wooden barracks.
The daily routine: dig, chop, smash, remove, repeat.
