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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:

Paul W. Rose Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0508
Content Description The Paul W. Rose Collection includes materials collected by Rose when he was stationed in post-war Japan to further agricultural and vocational training projects like the the First National Extension Youth Specialists Training School and the Yatsugatake Central Training Farm. Also included are letters to Rose from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as reference materials like an annotated copy of "A Rural Guide for...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949 - 1951; 1940 - 1965
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

"Plan and Plant for Beauty" by Arnold Friberg, 1965

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020054
Abstract

Community beautification project, planting and clean up, painting picnic table, grounds maintenance.

Dates: 1965
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

"Pointing the Way" by William C. Griffith, 1963

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020049
Abstract

A girl in a yellow dress poses on a box as her mother or friend and brother measure the hem of her party dress. The brother’s bat and mitt are by his side and he has a disgusted look on his face. There is a photo of an Angus in the background with a champion ribbon hanging on the photo.

Dates: 1963
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

Second step in the 4-H Calendar Program process, 1949

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020071
Abstract

Print of Untitled by Douglass Crockwell, 1949, with a description of the process for selecting and printing 4-H Club Calendars.

Dates: 1949
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

"Stewards of Nature - 4-H Club Camp" by Harold N. Anderson, 1963

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020050
Abstract

4-H Camp is keenly anticipated by every club member. Along with the fun, food and fellowship, there are many new and lasting friendships formed, horizons broadened and lessons learned that last a lifetime. 4-H leaders and camp councilors teach the members about drumming, birds and local animals.

Dates: 1963
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

"Strength of Our Nation" by William C. Griffith, 1965

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020053
Abstract

A teenage 4-H boy and girl in National 4-H uniforms pose in front of the Liberty Bell.

Dates: 1965
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

"The Champion" by Harvey Kidder, 1961

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020046
Abstract

A 4-H teen boy holds a pail for an Angus wearing a championship ribbon as his two sisters assist. Their parents and toddler brother 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

"Timely Lesson" by William C. Griffith, 1959

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020041
Abstract

A 4-H Leader, squatting by basket of vegetables and holding a carrot, instructs 4-H teens.

Dates: 1959
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

Untitled by Douglass Crockwell, 1950

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020032
Abstract

A boy and a young woman sit and a teenage boy wearing a 4-H tee shirt stands. They are all on a hillside looking over a farmstead and the lands beyond.

Dates: 1950
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

Untitled by Douglass Crockwell, 1948

 Item — art rack: Series Series III.
Identifier: MS0056-020076
Abstract

Young man carrying a bushel basket filled with vegetables stops to chat with a girl on her hands and knees weeding plants under a 4-H cut-out member sign on a post. There is a barn in the background.

Dates: 1948
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