4-H & NC State: Leading Together
The 4-H site was an application created as a mobile exhibition supplement to a physical exhibit. In 2017 that application was shut down but all of the content can be found below. Click on the images for more information about them.
4-H Club Week
Woman in formal dress sitting in front of mirror during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Four 4-H club members eating watermelon during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week, July 1958
4-H club member skipping rope while attending North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
4-H Club week driving test
Two 4-H club members reading an edition of Clover Leaves at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
4-H club members sitting on a diving board at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
4-H club boy rousing another in his bunkbed during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
L. R. Harrill standing in front of a 25th anniversary cake at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Brenda Fairless attending North Carolina State 4-H Club Week at North Carolina State College
4-H Honor Club members working at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Children playing London Bridge during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Two women at formal occasion during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
4-H club members examine a cow during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week, 1957
4-H Congress
Smokey Bear and 4-Hers at 1958 4-H Congress
1963 4-H Congress with Andy Griffith
1951 4-H Congress procession
4-H club leaders and delegates disembarking from a plane to attend the National 4-H Club Congress
1959 4-H Congress Conrad Hilton Hotel
1951 4-H Congress Conrad Hilton Hotel
Delegates receiving scholarships at the National 4-H Club Congress
1963 4-H Congress taking pictures
North Carolina State 4-H Club members and leaders (including L. R. Harrill) attending the National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C.
1951 4-H Congress banquet performance
At the White House, Conference Delegates present conference commemorative gifts to President Jimmy Carter
4-H Honor Club
Lucille Mayes joining the 4-H Honor Club
Members of the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club
4-H Honor Club conference candlelight ceremony, 1950
4-H Honor Club conference candlelight ceremony, 1950
L. R. Harrill, Bill Penil, and Jane Hinson Hill speaking at the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club Conference
Kenneth Howe and Joan Batten Wood performing at the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club Conference
Barbara Ann Davis (Howard) and Glenn W. Woodley performing at the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club Conference
4-H Honor Club candle lighting ceremony, 1949
Bobby L. Cockerham and Dorothy Mae Shields at 4-H Honor Club conference, 1949
4-H Honor Club members attending the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club Conference
Francis Pressly, Charles Culp, and Betty Moore at 4-H Honor Club conference, 1949
4-H Honor Club members attending an assembly
Jacqueline and Myrtle Harris being inducted into the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club in July of 1958
Animal Care
4-H club member standing next to two calves who are eating grass
4-H club boy with chicken
Dairy judging teams at work during the 1932 [4-H] Short Course; the barn stood on the site of the present-day [Reynolds] Coliseum.
4-H members observe deer fawn at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H club member showing his cow
North Carolina State 4-H Club girl sitting on horse in corral
4-H club boy and girl learning about chickens
Sheep shearing at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week, 1952
Henry Vanstory of Iredell County, one of the first club members to conduct a horse project in North Carolina
Joe Brown, Watauga County, North Carolina, "Baby Beef Project," March 1938
Camping
4-H club members raising the flag at Millstone 4-H Camp
Playing softball at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H club members in bunkhouse at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H members in swimming class at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H club members by the water at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H club instructor displaying animal pelt at Millstone 4-H Camp
Fishing at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H club members sitting on boulders and writing in notebooks at Camp Millstone
4-H club member diving into water at Millstone 4-H Camp, 1936
Young woman receiving instruction on rifle range, 4-H Wildlife Camp, 1959
Playing volleyball at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H members gathered around fire circle at Camp Millstone
Corn Clubs
4-H club member Quinten Nichols his prize-winnng ears of corn at the NC State Fair
Faytie Cox Gray and Jackie Jackson look at corn stalk at the North Carolina 4-H Honor Club Conference
Frank Arthur of Asheville, N.C., and his corn grown on a single acre of ground
4-H club member with his corn crop
Three men examining corn in field
Charlie Parker, right, who grew a record 235 bushels of corn on one acre in 1911, pictured in a corn field with three other men
Unidentified man standing in his corn field
4-H Club member Rudolph Pate with his Corn Club project
Corn on display at the Wilkes County 4-H corn show
Unidentified 4-H club member showing his corn crop to two unidentified women on the Tew family farm
Unidentified 4-H club member and man examining their corn crop at the Tew family farm
Demonstration
4-H club girl opening an oven in a food preparation demonstration
1958 4-H Congress model kitchen
Mary Faye Jackson of Surry County, North Carolina, ironing a shirt at the National 4-H Club Congress
4-H girls preserving fruits and vegetables
Woman presenting on North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service pamphlets
Two young women, 4-H team demonstration members from Chatham County, North Carolina, posing by a bumper sticker on a car that reads, "Eggs for trim chicks."
4-H club girl examining canned foods as part of a 4-H food preservation program
Mary Ross Henley, the winner of the 4-H Dress Revue in July 1959
1959 4-H Congress breads and baked goods
4-H club girl demonstrating how to make custard at a 4-H dairy foods demonstration
Three 4-H club girls making cookies as part of a 4-H food preparation program
4-H club girl demonstrating the benefits of drinking milk as part of a 4-H diary foods demonstration
Two 4-H club girls giving a dairy foods demonstration
Education
Raising chickens
4-H club children examine plants
4-H club members learning about water systems in class at Millstone 4-H Camp
Building an electric hotbed at Millstone 4-H Camp
4-H club member Frank Summer of 4-H small engine project, 1971
4-H Entomology Collection Study Project exhibit
Pitt County, North Carolina, 4-H Club exhibit, "War is Declared, 4-Hers Battle Insects!" at North Carolina State Fair, 1957
4-H club girl fixing a coffee percolator as part of an electricity demonstration
4-H club astronomy demonstration
Twelve-year-old boys find it fun to work on small gasoline engines. 4-H Club member Jimmy O'Brien of Wheatland, Wyoming, puts his weight behind the wrench as he removes a spark plug from a 4-cycle engine
Three 4-H club members practicing wood working at the 4-H forestry camp
Governor Hunt
North Carolina State University alumnus Governor James B. Hunt and wife Carolyn at his inaugural ball
Governor James Hunt cutting the ribbon at a Solar House dedication
Governor James B. Hunt and Raleigh Mayor Smedes York at "Bounce for Beats" fundraiser
Governor James B. Hunt portrait
Health Awards
North Carolina State 4-H Club king and queen of health
Deloris Lee and Jimmie Jones, the North Carolina 4-H king and queen of health, crowned in July 1958
North Carolina State 4-H Club king and queen of health
1963 4-H Congress health winners
4-H queen of health
4-H king and queen of health, behind them a herald trumpeting at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week held at North Carolina State College in Raleigh
H. C. Ousley, the 4-H king of health, crowned at North Carolina State 4-H Short Course held at North Carolina State College in Raleigh
North Carolina State 4-H Club king and queen of health
4-H king and queen of health at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week held at North Carolina State College in Raleigh
4-H king and queen of health wearing their crowns and sitting on their thrones
North Carolina State 4-H Club king and queen of health
I.O. Schaub
North Carolina State 4-H Short Course at North Carolina State College group photo
Members of first officially recognized North Carolina Corn Club present at the dedication of an historical marker commemorating their pioneering work
North Carolina State 4-H Council officers shaking hands with a Dean I. O. Schaub during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Dean I. O. Schaub and L. R. Harrill greeting delegates to 4-H Short Course
Agricultural extension pioneers I. O. Schaub, L. R. Harrill, Jane S. McKimmon, and Clarence Poe
I. O. Schaub, North Carolina's first Boy's Club agent, appearing at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
I. O. Schaub at Lake Waccamaw
Gathering of the first 4-H Corn Club members in North Carolina
Jane McKimmon
Dr. Jane S. McKimmon
Home Demonstration Christmas party
Academy Award winning actress Jane Darwell and Home Demonstration pioneer Jane McKimmon
Dr. Jane S. McKimmon speaking to State Council of African American women, 1941
Home Demonstration pioneer Jane S. McKimmon with agent Ruth Current and actress Jane Darwell for radio dramatization of McKimmon's life
L.R. Harrill
L. R. Harrill
Texas 4-H delegation watching L. R. Harrill try on cowboy boots at exchange program in Panola County, Texas
Delegates to the First National 4-H Camp, June 1927
L. R. Harrill riding in the backseat of a convertible in a parade
4-H club member, two unidentified men and L. R. Harrill standing with a bull
L. R. Harrill chopping wood at Swannanoa 4-H Camp
Presentation of portrait of L. R. Harrill to the National 4-H Club Center in Washington, D.C.
L. R. Harrill
L. R. Harrill and other 4-H leaders singing into microphone
Abner Knowles, L. R. Harrill, and Frances MacGregor at 4-H Club Week
Performance
4-H club member playing the sousaphone at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Woman applying makeup to another woman's face during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Two 4-H club members singing at North Carolina State 4-H Club Week
Boy playing piano
Woman sitting on stage, acting a role during North Carolina State 4-H Club Week event
Figure showing the wheel of the 4th figure in "Green Sleeves," as taught by L. R. Harrill, to the special group of leaders at the annual 4-H State Short Course, Raleigh, N.C.
1951 4-H Congress knitting skit
4-H club delegates to the National 4-H Club Congress dancing on stage
1951 4-H Congress performers
1951 4-H congress country skit
Tomato Clubs
4-H club member showing off her tomatoes, grown on the Tew family farm
4-H club girl and leader examining jars used for canning as part of a 4-H food preservation program
4-H club girl posing in kitchen with jars of preserved foods
Ribbons won at agricultural fairs by a 4-H club girl for her canning as part of a 4-H food preservation program
Wayne County's first fair
Tommy Burleson
Silver medal Olympian and NC State basketball player Tommy Burleson
David Thompson, Tommy Burleson, and Coach Norm Sloan, N. C. State basketball
N. C. State basketball players Steve Graham and Tommy Burleson in game against Virginia
Coach Norman Sloan and Tommy Burleson, N.C. State University basketball
N.C. State basketball's #24 Tommy Burleson guarding #22 Monte Towe in publicity shot
Tommy Burleson, Monte Towe, and David Thompson, N.C. State University basketball
N.C. State University basketball's 1972-1973 ACC champions celebrate after title game
1970-1971 N. C. State freshman basketball team group portrait
War Efforts
Students reading about the Nazis' invasion of Paris in the Washington Post while at National 4-H Camp in Washington, D.C.
4-H club members presenting an ambulance to the United States Army Medical Department in honor of former 4-H club members now serving in the armed forces
L. R. Harrill and others launching the U.S.S. Tyrrell on July 10th, 1944 in Wilmington, N.C.
Lee Flowe of the Clear Creek 4-H Club supporting the war effort with a Victory Garden
President Eisenhower receiving a copy of the 4-H Report to the Nation, April 17, 1953
Christening of SS Cassius Hudson
Scrap drive round-up
L. R. Harrill and others watching the U.S.S. Tyrrell after it has been launched on July 10th, 1944 from Wilmington, North Carolina
4-H club boys and girls who have Victory Gardens
World War Two Scrap drive round-up
History of the Project
