"Helping Hands" by William C. Griffith, 1952

Item — Container: art rack

Identifier: MS0056-020034

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

Series III is comprised of diversely formatted 4-H materials. It includes photographs, publications, correspondence and articles on boys' and girls' club work from 1915 through 1917, Extension Subcommittee on 4-H Club Work reports, impact studies and bibliographies, and Youth Staff Development and Training intern reports. It contains 4-H sheet music, 33.3 RPM records of radio spots, 4-H club songs on 78 RPM records, and National 4-H Week kits and posters. The sheet music is arranged chronologically. However, songs published the same date are arranged alphabetically by the composer or lyricist's name. Songs published by the same composer or lyricist the same year are arranged alphabetically by title of the song. The National 4-H Leader O.H. Benson's personal file in which the items are not sorted by date or subject was divided into 27 folders in order to maintain the original arrangement. All other dated materials are arranged chronologically. Many of the photographs are not dated and so are arranged by decades based on best estimates. The one poster that is not dated has been placed at the end of the poster collection.

Dates

Creation: 1952

Conditions Governing Access

Contact Special Collections for access.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

A teenage boy wearing a 4-H tee shirt holds a small lamb on his knee while feeding it milk from a bottle. His mother, younger sister, and their dog watch the process.

Custodial History

This painting has hung in the Center Sales department on third floor of J. C. Penney Hall from 2005 until January 2014 when it was moved to the office of the Center Manager beside the Front Desk in J. C. Penney Hall. From December 2016 to 2024, it was part of the exhibit in the Heritage Hallway, J. C. Penney Hall.

Dimensions

Tempera on board, 15-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Matted and framed, restored through a grant from IBM through alumna Valerie Pace.

General

1954 National 4-H Calendar Art by Brown & Bigelow. The company offered four calendar styles with this image, including a wall calendar for school and business hang-up in three sizes (11 x 22-3/4 inches, 16 x 33 inches, and 22 x 45-1/2 inches); art mount for home hang-up with the calendar image "tipped" onto the stock and a smaller calendar pad; a 4-H Record Calendar; and a Memory Calendar.