Photos from 4-H prior to 1950 - Miscellaneous

Room in Home Demonstration Work Shop, Jacksonville, Florida

Miss Margaret Fox Johnson, weaving a rug from discarded garments. Hundreds of women are converting similar material into attractive hooked, braided and woven rugs."

4-H Club girls with their leader

Mrs. Anita Lopes reviving the all but lost art of old Spanish needle work which flourished in St. Augustine during the days of Spanish control. This needle work is very beautiful and intricately designed and defies the use of machinery in the designing of its pattern.

Key Boy

Francis Horn (right) going over poultry projects with 4-H Boy. James McClung, Jefferson County. Date unknown

A bounteous garden always marks the Smith Farm

Faye tended it as a 4-H project. Date and location unknown

Tom Prater

14-year-old prize-winning poultry club member of Pasco County, Fla., believes in keeping his poultry house clean. Tom wins money and merchandise on his Rhode Island Reds at the fairs and makes money off of them when he gets them back home.

Gadsden County.

4-H girls barwomen band plays for club meetings, entertainments and other functions throughout the county.

Watts Chalken and the ox he drove to club camp.

4-H Boys' Club contest

Madison County, Fla. Date unknown

African-American 4-H club boy and corn demonstration

near Shady Grove, Florida.

Mizelle Lawrence, African-American 4-H boy, and his corn, Jackson County.

A good 4-H Pig Club pig,

"Duroc Jersey", 30 months old, the Pig Club furrowed and raised 30 pigs in 18 months. Madison, Florida. Unknown date.

Games played in club girls' recreation program

Walton County. Date unknown.

Club members.

Walton County, Fla. Date unknown.

Group of Club girls, with a 4-H girl local leader.

Beaulah Felts is the leader. Jefferson County.

Summerfield Pig Club boys

with local leader Travis Loften, former Club boy.

African-American agent M. E. Groover

instructing club boys in machinery, Jefferson County.

Bill Clegg

Club boy near Newberry, Florida, sowing crotalaria on acre his father rented to Government on Corn and Hog Contract. Bill is using this acre to build up the soil for better crops in his 4-H club work next year. (Additional information-This photograph was taken in Alachua County, Florida.)

Boys Club with beanies.

4-H Club Members

Left to right standing: 4-H club members Ralph Arant-Milton; Paul Simmons-Plant City; CLifford Boyles-Callaham; Richard Bradford-Tallahassee; Raymond Crabtree-Jacksonville. Seated: Rokno Kimaya-Coca Ranon; Frederick Barber-Pensacola; Hugh Dukes-Duket; Allen Phips-Montichello; William Platt-Marion. (Additional information-This looks like it was taken on campus at UF in Gainesville.)

A 4-H Club running levels for terracing. Unknown date.

A boys' 4-H Club plowing-out terraces on their cooperative project.

Madison County club boy, Jack Morris, and his pig.

Jack was just beginning his pig club project.

Three 4-H club girls with a chicken

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