Photos from 4-H in the 1920s
Date Description
1920 Short Course on campus in Gainesville at the University of Florida. Poultry Project.
1920 Boys State 4-H Short Course. Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida campus
1920 Boys inspect machinery while attending Short Course on the UF campus in Gainesville
1920 Boys Short Course on the UF campus in Gainesville. Boys who grew a bushel each of corn.
1920 4-H Boys at Camp in Columbia County Clean The Camp. The camp was held at Itchnetucknee Springs.
1920 4-H Boys at Camp in Columbia County Doing Exercise. The camp was held at Itchnetucknee Springs.
1920 Leo Leslie, Champion Pig
1920 4-H club boys. Note the beanie hats they are wearing.
1920 4-H club boys wearing beanie hats near a barn
1920 Lucile Estis, Alachua County, State Fair
1920 Suwannee County girls in line at camp
1920 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 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.
1926 Pasco County 4-H boys and girls in their grand march April 10, 1926.
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."
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.
1928 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.
1929 Two members of the 4-H girls club examining a plant.
? County extension agents attend a meeting
? County extension agents attend a meeting
? 4-H boys judge cattle
? 4-H boys look at a chicken with an extension agent or professor
? 4-H boys standing on steps
? 4-H boys learn about plowing
? Boys attending Short Course on the UF campus pose for a picture. Gainesville, Florida
? Boys attending Short Course on the UF campus in Gainesville inspect soil. Buckman Hall is visible in the background.
? Boys attending Short Course on the UF campus in Gainesville take a picture at the entrance to Peabody Hall.
? Boys attending Short course on the UF campus in Gainesville inspect a tree. Campus building visible in the background.
? St. Johns County 4-H members and parents at the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine
? 4-H boys in beanie hats inspect a tractor

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