Photos from 4-H in the 1920s

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1920

Short Course on campus in Gainesville at the University of Florida. Poultry Project.

Boys State 4-H Short Course. Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida campus

Boys inspect machinery while attending Short Course on the UF campus in Gainesville

Boys Short Course on the UF campus in Gainesville. Boys who grew a bushel each of corn.

4-H Boys at Camp in Columbia County Clean The Camp. The camp was held at Itchnetucknee Springs.

4-H Boys at Camp in Columbia County Doing Exercise. The camp was held at Itchnetucknee Springs.

Leo Leslie, Champion Pig

4-H club boys. Note the beanie hats they are wearing.

4-H club boys wearing beanie hats near a barn

Lucile Estis, Alachua County, State Fair

4-H attendeees to the two-week girls state short course in Tallahassee enjoy a swim.

1922

An open-air model-T schoolbus took these Alachua County 4-H boys to a camping trip at Earlton Beach in July 1922.

1923

Organized club work. Oak Grove Club boys arriving at a club meeting. Escambia County. April, 1923

1925

Club member with her pigs (Annie B. Leslie, 13 years old, started with one gilt, Sold $70.00 worth. Has 22 pigs now. Gilt won $85.0 in prizes.) 3/2/25 Madison County, Madison, Florida

1925 girl with pig .

1925

Prize winning Poultry Club member, Tom Prater, 14 years old. Raised a pen of eight pullets and one cockerel. Won 1st prize for best pen of Rhode Island reds at county fair also for best display. Total prize-Cash $10.00, 1 pr. shoes, $2.50 trade at drug store, and two banks gave $5.00 each, 3/7/25. Pasco County, Dade City, Florida.

1926

Russell Henderson, a 1926 Madison County 4-H member, posed with his grand champion sow with nine new born pigs. Russell set a Madison County Swine Raising record by producing 31 pigs in three successive litters with this mother hog.

Pasco County 4-H boys and girls in their grand march April 10, 1926.

Pasco County 4-H club officers in Dade City on April 10th. This photo is not dated but we believe it was taken the same day as the grand march photo which was dated and is listed above.

Another photo from the same event which recorded club membership in Pasco County at 993 boys and girls.

Another picture of the officers on April 10th, which also recorded that W.T. Nettles was the County Agent and Mrs. H. B. Tichnor was the Home Demonstration Agent.

Another photo "225 of the 350 boys and girls present at the Boys' and Girls' Grand Rally, Dade City, Pasco Co., April 10th, 1926."

Another photo "225 Club boys and girls in line on their grand march, Dade City, Dla. April 10th, 1926."

Madison 4-H and FFA youths pulling sweet potato draws from an 'ole fashion manure-heated plant bed in the Spring of 1926. The cover on the bed in the background was muslin dipped in linseed oil. Youth in the center, facing the camera, is said to be Dick Baker. Standing is B. E. Lawton (left) county agent and Mitchell Wilkson, Vo-Ag teacher who later was county agent in Walton County for several years.

Jackson County 4-H Club leaders in 1928.

1928

Girls at the Short Course in Tallahassee at Florida State College for Women. Banners are being held to represent the following counties: Alachua, Citrus, Duval, Escambia, Gadsden, Hillsborough, Jackson, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Marion, Nassau, Okaloosa, Osceola, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Santa Rosa, Taylor, Walton.