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4-H Youth Development Program

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt
Scope Note: The 4-H Youth Development Program is an international youth outreach organization founded in 1902 to foster agricultural, homemaking, leadership and other skills in young people. The 4-H name represents the ideals of the program with its focus on Head, Heart, Hands and Health. The program is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H

 Collection
Identifier: MS0056
Content Description The Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H contains materials relating to early cooperative extension work, largely compiled by Extension specialists and program leaders over Carper's many years of employment as a clerk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Subject areas include Cooperative Extension history, early history of Extension home economics, the Extension Homemaker's Organization, early history of the National Association of Extension...
Dates: 1908-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

"Every Citizen Holds Office" by James E. Seward, 1971

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020062
Abstract

4-H members visit the city Mayor’s office.

Dates: 1971
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Finalists" by William C. Griffith, 1958

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020040
Abstract

A boy and a girl are side by side in a show ring with their Hampshire sheep. The judge is right behind them. The 4-Hers are staring intently at each other.

Dates: 1958
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Future Winner" by William C. Griffith, 1961

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020044
Abstract

A teenage 4-Her shows off his mare’s new colt to a teenage girl as a mother cat and her kittens look on.

Dates: 1961
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Growing Up" by William C. Griffith, 1954

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020036
Abstract

A family stands at a farm gate with "4-H Member" and "4-H Leader" signs on their fence. Pieces of board on the ground, plus a saw standing by the fence and a hammer in the boy’s hand indicate that he’s just finished hanging the signs.

Dates: 1954
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Helping Hand" by William C. Griffith, 1962

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020047
Abstract

Teenage 4-Hers enjoy unpacking a box of baby chicks which has just arrived from the hatchery for their 4-H project.

Dates: 1962
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Helping Hands" by William C. Griffith, 1952

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020034
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.

Dates: 1952
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"I Pledge My Hands to Larger Service" by Unknown artist, 1970s

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020061
Abstract

4-H’ers in tie-dye style multi-colored t-shirts with the “4-H WE CARE” logo on them are involved in a community clean-up effort by a river. Some members are also wearing 4-H jackets, caps or plain white t-shirts with the clover. One is on a bicycle, another is photographing the effort and a dog waits for his owner.

Dates: 1970s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Keeping America Beautiful" by Harold N. Anderson, 1957

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020039
Abstract

The artwork for 1959 salutes 4-H community service, showing two 4-H boys hanging a sign, "4-H ‘Our County’ (name of county for which the calendars are printed appears here) Welcomes You. Please Help Keep Our Highways Safe and Clean." A girl in a green 4-H jacket waits with a paintbrush in hand to repair any damage to the sign or post during the hanging process. The county agent supervises the job as two 4-H’ers in the background paint a trash can.

Dates: 1957
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art

"Learning by Doing" by Harold N. Anderson, 1953

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020035
Abstract

A 4-H family and a cow on the front steps of their home.

Dates: 1953
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H / Series III. 4-H / Subseries III.L. National 4-H Calendar Program Art