University Archives Photograph Collection, 4-H Youth Development Photographs 1911-2000

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North Carolina State University. Libraries. University Archives
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20 linear feet (68 albums, 3 boxes, 2 half boxes, 4 card boxes)
Call number
UA 023.008

Contains photographs of people, activities, events, exhibitions, and programs related to 4-H youth development in North Carolina from 1911 to 2000.

Biographical/historical note

The idea of 4-H began in the 1890s when one-acre corn contests for boys were organized in several states. In 1907, the first modern 4-H program began in Mississippi when the Mississippi State College of Agriculture sponsored 120 boys in a corn contest. This was the first cooperative effort between youth and university, and led to the 4-H youth program's important role in the nationwide land-grant college Extension program.

The beginnings of North Carolina 4-H go back to a 1909 Hertford County Corn Club. North Carolina became the first state to sign an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture to sponsor Boys' Club work, and by 1910, there were some 4,000 boys involved. Girls' Clubs, based on tomato production, quickly followed. Canning foods was also a major learning activity for the girls.

The passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914 opened up the work of Extension greatly. The 4-H program took off, and the first annual statewide club meeting in Raleigh, called the Short Course, was held.

L. R. Harrill, North Carolina's first county 4-H agent, was appointed in Buncombe County in 1922. In 1926, he became North Carolina's first State 4-H Club Leader. By 1929, he had incorporated the Boys' and Girls' clubs under one banner and worked hard to bring more programs into effect, get more counties involved, and improve 4-H activities and facilities. By 1939, all 100 counties had 4-H programs. By the 1950s, North Carolina had more 4-H members than any other state in the country.

For several decades, North Carolina 4-H worked in conjunction with the public school systems. Major changes came in the 1960s when strong community sponsoring bases replaced the role of the local schools. What traditionally had been a program for rural youth expanded to offer the same opportunities to urban youth, thereby reaching out to a larger number of children statewide.

For more information about 4-H in North Carolina, please see the Guide to the North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H Youth Development Records, UA 102 and North Carolina Cooperative Extension, "Robeson County 4-H Youth Development Program."

Scope/content

Chiefly black-and-white photographic prints and film negatives, 8 x 10 in. or smaller, providing a rich visual history of the people, activities, and events related to 4-H Youth Development Program in North Carolina from its beginnings to the early 1990s. Some photographs were taken by 4-H club members, Extension Service agents, professional and amateur photographers, newspaper photographers, and staff photographers from the North Carolina State College Visual Aids Department. Many photographers are not identified.

The collection includes portraits and group portraits of county agents, specialists, club members, early agricultural clubs, National 4-H Congress delegates, Extension Director I. O. Schaub, and State 4-H Club Leader L. R. Harrill (Mr. 4-H). Other photographs show club activities, facilities, 4-H camps, 4-H Club Week, award presentations, war work, exhibitions at North Carolina state and county fairs, tours, and recreation. Images of 4-H projects, demonstrations, and demonstration winners depict various subjects, including livestock, poultry, swine, and other animals; crop production, gardening, and horticulture; forestry and wildlife conservation; rural electrification and tractor programs; food preparation, canning and preserving, home improvement, handicraft, sewing, 4-H Dress Revue, and other aspects of home economics; health and safety, featuring portraits of the Kings and Queens of Health; civic and cultural education, international exchange programs, spiritual development, and community service; music, theater, visual arts, communication, and personal development.

Some photographs from this collection originally appeared in Extension Farm-News, and others were used to illustrate the books Memories of 4-H (Raleigh: North Carolina State University Print Shop, 1967) by L. R. Harrill and Clover All Over: North Carolina 4-H in Action (Raleigh, North Carolina State University, 1984) by James W. Clark, Jr.

In May 2006, 597 slides related to 4-H activities were transferred to the collection. They are listed with similar materials, and can be found in albums 66 and 67. In July 2012, scrapbooks documenting 4-H activities were transferred to the collection. They are listed with similar materials, and can be found in box 70.

Arrangement

The collection is organized by format: photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Arrangement is by University Archives Photograph Collection subject classification, listed in the detailed description below.

Use of these materials

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[Identification of item], University Archives Photograph Collection, 4-H Youth Development Photographs, UA 023.008, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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4-H Youth Development. Negatives (UA 023.008.001)

Includes both negatives corresponding to various photographic prints in the collection and some negatives without corresponding prints.

Card box 1
4-H Youth Development. Negatives (UA 023.008.001)

Includes both negatives corresponding to various photographic prints in the collection and some negatives without corresponding prints.

Card box 2
4-H Youth Development. Negatives (UA 023.008.001)

Includes both negatives corresponding to various photographic prints in the collection and some negatives without corresponding prints.

Card box 3
4-H Youth Development. Negatives (UA 023.008.001)

Includes both negatives corresponding to various photographic prints in the collection and some negatives without corresponding prints.

Half box 4
4-H Youth Development. Proofs (UA 023.008.002)
Card box 5
4-H Youth Development. General (UA 023.008.000)

Includes slides related to various 4-H events.

165 slides

Album 66
4-H administration and staff. General 1960s-1990 (UA 023.008.010)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of 4-H administration and staff.

12 photographs

L. R. Harrill 1917-1978 (bulk 1950-1970) (UA 023.008.011)

Primarily contains posed portraits of L.R. Harrill, as well as group portraits in which Harrill is the primary focus. Also contains a reproduction of a charcoal sketch of L.R. Harrill.

52 photographs

L. R. Harrill (UA 023.008.011)

Primarily contains posed portraits of L.R. Harrill, as well as group portraits in which Harrill is the primary focus.

55 slides

Album 66
4-H Extension Service specialists and agents 1913-1970s (UA 023.008.013)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities, including State Extension Service specialists and county agents.

15 photographs

4-H fund raising 1940-1973 (UA 023.008.015)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities. Includes depictions of 4-H Development Fund and Report to State.

28 photographs

4-H clubs. General 1914- 1979 (bulk 1914-1931) (UA 023.008.020)

Contains slides showing 4-H club activities.

2 slides

Album 66
4-H clubs. General 1952-1966 (UA 023.008.020)

A scrapbook that contains photos of 4-H exhibits on agricultural and home demonstration topics.

4-H clubs. Members 1914- 1979 (bulk 1914-1931) (UA 023.008.021)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities, including picnics, demonstration work, cooking, and other projects.

115 photographs

4-H clubs. Meetings and facilities 1917-1971 (UA 023.008.022)

Primarily contains posed portraits and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities in and around club facilities, including picnics, demonstration work, cooking and other projects. Of special note is the construction and opening of The Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center and an aerial view of the facility. Included in the contact sheets are images of the neighboring Chinqua- Penn Plantation.

63 photographs

Collegiate 4-H 1950s-1980 (UA 023.008.027)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of collegiate 4-H Clubs.

6 photographs

4-H publications 1940s-1958 (UA 023.008.029)

Primarily contains images of the Clover Leaves publication and a 1958 4-H calendar.

8 photographs

4-H camps. General 1922-1980s (UA 023.008.030)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at various camps throughout North Carolina. The pictures in this box are considered "general,” meaning they could not be identified with a specific camp. Several of the photographs are from either Camp Millstone or Camp Swannanoa, although it is unclear which.

40 photographs

4-H camps. General 1922-1980s (UA 023.008.030)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at various camps throughout North Carolina. The pictures in this box are considered “general,” meaning they could not be identified with a specific camp. Several of the slides may be from Camp Millstone.

63 slides

Album 66
4-H camps, A-H circa 1920-1975 (bulk 1920s-1960s) (UA 023.008.031)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at various camps throughout North Carolina, including the Anita-Alta Outpost Camp, Ball’s Creek, Bertie County Encampment, Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center, Buncombe County Encampment, Carteret County Encampment, Davidson-Rowan 4-H Camp, Davidson-Iredell 4-H Club Encampment, Durham County 4-H Camp, Forestry Camp, Forsyth County Camp, and Hicone (Guilford-Rockingham) 4-H Camp.

71 photographs

4-H camps, A-H 1964 (UA 023.008.031)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center.

15 slides

Album 66
4-H camps, I-P (does not include Manteo/Roanoke Island or Millstone) 1919-1960s (bulk 1919-1941) (UA 023.008.032)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at various camps throughout North Carolina, including Indian Springs Conservation Camp, John’s River Camp, Camp Seaman A. Knapp, Lake Waccamaw, Camp Leach, Lincoln County Encampment, Mitchell 4-H Camp, Neuse Forest 4-H Camp, and Polk County 4-H Club Camp. Includes photographs of L. R. Harrill and I. O. Schaub at Lake Waccamaw, late 1920s or early 1930s. Also includes 1 photograph from Clover All Over.

91 photographs

4-H camps, I-P (Manteo/Roanoke Island only) 1947-1960s (UA 023.008.032)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at the Manteo/Roanoke Island 4-H Camps and surrounding attractions. Includes 12 photographs of the 1947 fire at the Lost Colony Theater and 2 photographs of L. R. Harrill speaking at the Manteo Camp in 1951.

104 photographs

4-H camps, I-P (Manteo/Roanoke Island only) 1950s-1970 (UA 023.008.032)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at the Manteo/Roanoke Island 4-H Camps and surrounding attractions, including the Lost Colony, the beach, the Wright Brothers Memorial, and the Tyrrell County-Albemarle Sound. Includes 1 photograph from Clover All Over.

72 photographs

4-H camps, Q-Z (does not include Swannanoa) 1925-1970 (UA 023.008.033)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at Camp Schaub and White Lake 4-H Camp. Includes 2 group photographs with L. R. Harrill at Camp Schaub in 1949. Also includes 1 photograph from Clover All Over, 1 letter from Frank Parker to R. W. Shoffner, 10 September 1949, and 1 letter from R. W. Shoffner to L. R. Harrill, 19 September 1949.

41 photographs

4-H camps. Millstone 1936-late 1940s (UA 023.008.034)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at Millstone 4-H Camp. Includes 1 photograph exhibited in The Rotarian’s 1942 photo contest. Also includes 2 photographs from Clover All Over, 1 letter from Charles W. Ziegler to L. R. Harrill, 27 March 1944, and 1 letter from Charles W. Ziegler to L. R. Harrill, 14 May 1946.

120 photographs

4-H camps. Millstone 1950s (UA 023.008.034)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at Millstone 4-H Camp, including camp Instructors Training School, Model Farm Shop and Wildlife Camp. Includes 2 photographs from James W. Clark Jr.’s Clover All Over.

115 photographs

4-H camps. Millstone 1970s (UA 023.008.034)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at Millstone 4-H Camp.

103 photographs

4-H camps. Millstone (UA 023.008.034)

Contains shots from Camp Millstone.

2 slides

Album 66
National 4-H Camp 1927 (UA 023.008.036)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at the first National 4-H Camp, as well as attractions throughout Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia. Includes several photographs of L. R. Harrill, 1 photograph from Memories of 4-H and 1 photograph from Clover All Over.

74 photographs

National 4-H Camp 1928-1977 (UA 023.008.036)

Contains posed and candid shots of 4-H club members at the National 4-H Club Camp (becomes National Conference in 1957), as well as attractions throughout Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia, and Beltsville, Md. Includes several photographs of L. R. Harrill, 2 photographs of 4-H members standing with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1 photograph of 4-H members standing with President Jimmy Carter, and 3 photographs from Clover All Over. Also contains 1 letter from B. P. Hess to L. R. Harrill, 11 July 1941, and 1 letter from L. R. Harrill to B. P. Hess, 15 July 1941.

74 photographs

National 4-H Camp, Oversize Photographs 1927-1947 (UA 023.008.036)

Oversize (rolled) group portraits of club members.

12 photographs

Box 6
4-H. Events. General 1947-1959, 1971, 1993 (UA 023.008.040)

Contains posed, candid and group portraits of agents, specialists, and club members, participating in demonstrations and other various activities, including dinner functions and activities relating to North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

62 photographs

4-H. Events. General ca. 1965 (UA 023.008.040)

1 slide

Album 66
4-H. Awards 1940-1969, 1984,1993 (UA 023.008.041)

Contains posed, candid, and group portraits of agents, specialists, and club-members, performing demonstrations and other various activities including service award presentations at recognition banquets.

33 photographs

4-H. Awards 1932, 1936 (UA 023.008.041)

Contains two posed group portraits of the Annual 4-H Song Contest State Champions.

2 slides

Album 66
4-H. Awards, Oversize Photographs and Rolled Negatives 1943, undated (UA 023.008.041)

Oversize photograph (rolled) of War Service Award given by the Columbia Broadcasting System to 4-H Clubs of America for the Youth on Parade broadcast, February 13, 1943. Rolled negatives of Millstone, Manteo, and unknown.

Box 7
4-H. Celebrations and awards 1947-1970, 1976, 1981 (UA 023.008.042)

Contains posed, candid and group portraits of agents, specialists, and club members, performing demonstrations and other various activities including tree planting ceremonies, mortgage burning ceremonies, flag ceremonies, the dedication honoring Mrs. Jefferson Penn of the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center, and the L.R. Harrill dedication ceremony at N.C. State University Special Collections Center. Some photographs also depict guest speakers at meetings.

55 photographs

4-H. Celebrations and awards ca. 1930 (UA 023.008.042)

1 slide

Album 66
4-H. Celebrations and awards: Dedication of Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center [1963?] (UA 023.008.042)

A scrapbook that contains photos of the dedication of the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center, including photos of Betsy Penn.

Box 70, Folder 1
4-H. Meetings and conferences 1940-1969, 1984,1993 (UA 023.008.043)

Contains posed, candid, and group portraits of agents, specialists, and club-members, performing demonstrations and other various activities including service award presentations at recognition banquets.

60 photographs

4-H. Meetings and conferences: The First Meeting: Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center 9 November 1963

A scrapbook that contains photos from the first meeting of the Board of Directors of the 4-H Development Fund, Inc. at the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center. Includes photos of Betsy Penn as well as leaders of North Carolina State University and the Cooperative Extension Service.

Box 70, Folder 2
4-H Congress 1972-1995 (UA 023.008.044)

Contains posed and group portraits of 4-H Congress North Carolina Delegations and National Winners.

34 photographs

Album 27
National 4-H Congress 1942-1959 (bulk 1953) (UA 023.008.045)

Contains posed and group portraits of 4-H Congress North Carolina Delegations and National Winners participating in activities related to National 4-H Club Week, including banquets, demonstrations, and bus and train transportation. Also contains group portraits of state delegations and National Winners in categories such as canning and sewing.

50 photographs

National 4-H Congress 1954-1986 (UA 023.008.045)

Contains posed and group portraits of 4-H Congress North Carolina Delegations and National Winners participating in activities related to National 4-H Club Week, including banquets, airplane transportation, demonstrations, and delegates meeting and making a presentation to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Also contains group portraits of National Winners in categories such as clothing and field crops. Of special note are photographs of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and President Nixon in 1973.

77 photographs

National 4-H Congress 1951-1963 (UA 023.008.045)

Contains posed and group portraits of 4-H Congress North Carolina Delegations and National Winners participating in activities related to National 4-H Club Week, including banquets, demonstrations, and bus and train transportation. Also contains group portraits of state delegations and National Winners in categories such as canning and sewing.

242 slides

Album 67
National 4-H Congress, Oversize Photographs 1948-1954 (UA 023.008.045)

Oversize (rolled) group portraits of club members.

8 photographs

Box 6
National 4-H Congress, Oversize Photographs 1955-1976 (UA 023.008.045)

Oversize (rolled) group portraits of club members.

8 photographs

Box 7
National 4-H Congress in Chicago - Slides (1 of 2) undated (Accession 2019.0156)
Box 70, Folder 4
National 4-H Congress in Chicago - Slides (2 of 2) undated (Accession )
Box 70, Folder 5
Slides 1996-2000 (Accession 2019.0156)
Box 70, Folder 6
4-H Club Week 1950s (bulk 1957-1959) (UA 023.008.046)

Primarily contains primarily posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities relating to North Carolina State Club Week.

188 photographs

4-H Club Week 1920-1965 (bulk 1954-1965) (UA 023.008.046)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities relating to North Carolina State Short Course, the original name for Club Week. Also includes slides showing 4-H and State leaders.

195 sildes

Album 67
National 4-H Club Week 1955 (UA 023.008.047)

Primarily contains primarily posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities relating to National 4-H Club Week, including flying the 4-H Flag at the State Capital.

10 photographs

4-H. World War II (war work) 1942-1944 (UA 023.008.048)

Primarily contains primarily posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities relating to World War II (war work), including victory gardens and dedications to two ships named after North Carolina 4-H members for contributions made toward the war effort.

41 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. General 1921-1960s (bulk 1940s-1950s) (UA 023.008.050)

Contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities relating to demonstration work.

25 photographs

4-H club project and demonstration winners 1936-1969 (bulk 1961-1962) (UA 023.008.051)

Contains portraits and group portraits of winners participating in various 4-H activities, including one image of L.R. Harrill giving a scholarship check to a winner.

110 photographs

4-H club project and demonstration winners 1960-1979 (bulk 1961-1962, 1970s) (UA 023.008.051)

Contains portraits and group portraits of winners participating in various 4-H activities.

99 photographs

Album 40
4-H. Exhibitions and displays. General 1959 (UA 023.008.052)

Contains slides of 4-H exhibitions and displays demonstrating 4-H activities in various counties of North Carolina.

10 slides

Album 68
4-H. Tours 1917-1970 (bulk 1930s) (UA 023.008.053)

Contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various club activities relating to site-seeing tours.

13 photographs

4-H. Recreation 1920s (UA 023.008.054)

1 slide

Album 68
4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Animals circa 1923-1938 (bulk 1930-1938) (UA 023.008.060)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to cattle, including 4-H Calf Club, North Carolina State Fair, 4-H Calf Show, and Dairy Demonstration. Includes 3 photographs by L. R. Harrill published in the News and Observer 24 October 1935 and 2 photographs by L. R. Harrill published in the News and Observer 28 October 1935. Also includes 1 photograph from L. R. Harrill’s memories of 4-H and 3 photographs from James W. Clark Jr.’s Clover All Over.

119 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Animals Undated (bulk probably 1930s-1950s) (UA 023.008.060)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to cattle, including 4-H Calf Club, North Carolina State Fair, 4-H Calf Show, Stock Sale, Dairy Judging and Dairy Demonstration. Includes 1 photograph from James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over.

48 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Animals 1926-1971 (bulk 1941-1963) (UA 023.008.060)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to poultry, including 4-H Poultry Club, North Carolina State Fair, 4-H Poultry Show and Sale, Pullet Chain, Poultry Judging Team, Poultry Demonstration, and Poultry Cooking Contest. Includes 1 photograph from James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over.

119 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Animals 1930-1971 (bulk 1930-1957) (UA 023.008.060)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to horses, sheep, swine, snakes, bees, dogs, and rabbits, including 4-H Horse Project, North Carolina State Fair, 4-H Club Week Demonstration, National 4-H Week, Pig/Swine Project, Fat Stocks Show, Beekeeping Demonstration, and Dog Care and Training Project. Includes 1 photograph of L. R. Harrill from 1962, 1 photograph from L. R. Harrill’s Memories of 4-H and 1 photograph from James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over.

58 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Animals 1942-1970 (bulk 1957-1964) (UA 023.008.060)

Contains portraits of demonstration winners in agriculture, beekeeping, beef, beef production, dairy, dairy achievement, dairy herd management, dairy production, dog care and training, grain marketing, horse, livestock conservation, livestock judging, meat animal, poultry, poultry production, poultry marketing, sheep, sheep shearing, swine, and veterinary science.

75 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Plants circa 1920s-1980s (bulk 1934-1959) (UA 023.008.070)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at exhibits relating to corn, nitrates, farm forage, livestock feed, and vegetables, as well as various other events relating to strawberries, cotton, grain, peaches, tobacco, gardening, and gourds, including State Corn Club Show, North Carolina State Fair, District Contest Day, 4-H Demonstration, N.C. Crops Improvement Association, Strawberry Shows, 4-H Exhibits, Curb Market, Vegetable Market, Grain Marketing, Cotton School, Orchard Works, and Garden Project. Of special note is a photograph of Ralph Mills picking cotton, printed in the News and Observer, 27 October 1941 and James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over.

77 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Plants 1955-1960 (UA 023.008.070)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at demonstration competitions relating to legumes, alfalfa, feed sacks, silage, pasture improvement, pasture seeding, forage, Bermuda grass, pasture grasses, cotton, earworm control, grain production, and overhead arbors, including 4-H Club Week Demonstration and State Demonstration Competition.

64 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Plants circa 1930-1960 (bulk 1939-1952) (UA 023.008.070)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members in various activities relating to peanuts, harvesting, corn, the Tew Family Farm, and vegetable judging, including Peanut Project, 4-H Corn Club, Corn Show, and 4-H Club Week. Of special note is a photograph of L. R. Harrill holding a mutated tomato, undated.

82 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Forestry and conservation 1938-1970 (bulk 1950-1970) (UA 023.008.080)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina home demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to wildlife, forestry, and conservation, including 4-H Wildlife Project, North Carolina State Fair, District Contest Day, 4-H Demonstration, N.C. Wildlife Federation Award Program, Forestry Demonstration, and Demonstration Winners in Conservation, Conservation of Natural Resources, Forestry, Forestry Scholarship, Soil and Water, Wildlife, and Wildlife Conservation .

61 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Science and technology circa 1947-1984 (bulk 1947-1970) (UA 023.008.090)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to science and technology, including Better Methods Electric Congress, State 4-H Electric Congress, Farm and Home Electric, Electric Workshop, N.C. State Fair, VEPCO, Electric Demonstration, Entomology Demonstration, Automotive Program, Small Engines Project, and Astronomy Demonstration.

59 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Science and technology 1951 -1960 (UA 023.008.090)

Contains portraits and group portraits of North Carolina demonstration agents, specialists, and club members; also, some posed and candid shots of club members at various events relating to tractors, including Tractor School, Tractor Program, Tractor Contest, 4-H Club Week, and Tractor Exhibit. Includes one photograph from James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over.

177 photographs

Album 55
4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Home economics 1931-1971 (bulk 1936-1955) (UA 023.008.100)

Primarily contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in Dress-Revues. Included are two candid photographs of backstage action and one photograph of a young man in a 1970s Fashion Revue. Of special note is a series of photographs of the 1937 First Place Statewide winner (Ada Braswell, Anson County), taken by L.R.Harrill, one of which was published in James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over.

143 photographs

Album 57
4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Home economics 1950-1970 (bulk 1960-1965) (UA 023.008.100)

Contains portraits and one group portrait of winners of various titles within the Home economics sub-group.

101 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Home economics 1931-1979 (bulk 1936-1955) (UA 023.008.100)

Contains posed and group portraits of club members participating in various group and individual club projects.

134 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Home economics 1911-1979 (bulk 1936-1955) (UA 023.008.100)

Contains posed, candid, and group portraits of agents, specialists, and club members (children and adults) participating in food preparation, canning, sewing demonstrations, and other various activities. Food preparation photographs focus on baking demonstrations and the theme “June is Dairy Month.” Canning photographs primarily depict the finished product rather than the process. The sewing images show club members at various types of sewing machines, from the loom to the modern machine. Of special note are two photographic prints published in James W. Clark, Jr.’s Clover All Over. The first depicts “Agents in training to can tomatoes and green beans,” 1911. The second shows a blanket, and four of the women who “stitched it,” that was sent to a military hospital in Great Britain during World War II.

102 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Communication and art 1930-1980 (UA 023.008.130)

Contains posed portraits and group portraits of club members and contest winners participating in the performing arts, including music, talent contests, dancing, ventriloquism, contortionism, photo exhibitions, public speaking. Of special note is one photographic print of four young boys in costume, published in L. R. Harrill’s Memories of 4-H.

116 photographs

4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. General 1950s (UA 023.008.050)

1 slide

Album 68
4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Animals 1910s-1940s (UA 023.008.060)

22 slides

Album 68
4-H projects, demonstration work, and activities. Communication and art 1961 (UA 023.008.130)

Contains posed portraits and group portraits of club members and contest winners participating in the performing arts, including music, talent contests, dancing, ventriloquism, contortionism, photo exhibitions, public speaking.

40 slides

Album 68
Duplicates 1927/1995
Size: 0.25 linear feet
Half box 69
[State 4-H Extras?] Displays of prize winning cows and corn [35mm film negative strips] 1946 (AV2.FS.11)
Half box 69
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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], University Archives Photograph Collection, 4-H Youth Development Photographs, UA 023.008, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Use of these materials

The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.

The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.

This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.