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Alexander Legge

Date: 12 03 1930
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch...
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Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
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4-H Members on TV at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A group of 4-H members standing underneath lights to be filmed for television at the Iowa State Fair, while a woman nearby is playing the piano.
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Reaper Replica Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A man, possibly Cyrus McCormick III, demonstrating a reaper replica to a group of onlooking 4-H Club members.
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4-H Club Parade Float

Date: 1930
Description: A group of young women at an International Harvester factory (most likely McCormick Works) ride on a parade float reading "Welcome 4-H Club Champions, Inte...
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4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Mrs. F.G. Miller, adult leader of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club, assists LaVerne Henshue as he plans his garden project.
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4-H Gypsy Festival Queen Leaving Airplane

Date: 1949
Description: Original caption states: "Alpha Bungum, 17, of Kasson, Minn., receives congratulations from A.S. Knudsen, northwest regional manager, general line sales, ...
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Dane County 4-H Leaders

Date: 02 02 1952
Description: Group portrait of the officers of the Dane County 4-H Leaders Senior Council. Seated, from left: Mrs. Melfred Anderson, Waubesa, treasurer; Lyle Fosshage, ...
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Group Gathered at 4-H Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of women gathered at a church for a lecture regarding 4-H Clubs. The lecture was held in conjunction with the Union Pacific Nebraska Farm Preparednes...
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Merton Sutter with All-Steel Thresher

Date: 1938
Description: Merton Sutter receiving a 4-H farm accounting award in front of a McCormick-Deering All-Steel Thresher. Original caption reads: "Winner of $300 merchandisi...
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Outdoor Gathering

Date: 1930
Description: Men, women, and children in a crowd standing around outside talking in groups near a small outdoor shed. Most of the people have hats on. The women are wea...
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Thirty-Sixth Annual State 4-H Club Week

Date: 06 17 1956
Description: Some of the early arrival delegates to the 36th annual state 4-H Club Week waiting outdoors at the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Dean John Bowers

Date: 06 17 1956
Description: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's minister of welfare and health, is shown in a speedboat on Lake Mendota with Dean John Z. Bowers, of the University of Wiscon...
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Wisconsin 4-H Club Conference and Picnic

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Some of the individuals attending the picnic for delegates at the Wisconsin 4-H Club conference are, left to right, Judy Rithamel, Walworth county; Lorrain...
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Wisconsin 4-H Club Conference and Picnic

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: A picnic was held on the University of Wisconsin inter-mural field for delegates attending the Wisconsin 4-H Club conference and picnic. From left to right...
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Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: The 1959 Dane County Junior Fair home economics building is the center for 1,000s of entries made by girls of Dane County in the clothing and food categori...
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Barbara Kiechler

Date: 1931
Description: Miss Barbara Kiechler, identified as a 4-H Club worker in Coon Valley, posing on a low wall surrounding the Grotto of the Holy Family on the grounds of Vil...
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Wisconsin Spring Market Hog Show

Date: 02 24 1961
Description: More than 150 Madison area young people in vocational-agricultural classes and 4-H clubs took part in the activity of judging 20 pork cuts and placing 10 l...
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Dane County Junior Fair 4-H Style Show

Date: 07 22 1961
Description: Carla Frye, Verona, models her Dane County Junior Fair 4-H style show dress for her dormitory "sisters" Sue Jalings, Oregon, seated left; Joyce Dvorak, Dee...
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A Day 'With a County Home Agent"

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Kathleen Russell, Iowa County home agent, leading a training session for a large group of women, who are 4-H leaders.

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