Photos from 4-H in the 1950s
Date Description of Photograph
1950 National 4-H Club Congress Delegation by a Phone Booth
1950 These seven 4-H boys were awarded $100 scholarships by the Florida Bankers' Association during the 1950 short course (held on the UF campus). Left to right: Earl Conway, Box 611, Callahan; Vill Pearce, Box 77, Kendall; Floyd Call, Executive Secretary, Florida Bankers' Association, Orlando; Paul Thornhill, Box 411, Dundee; Tommy Charies, Route 1, Bradenton; Herman Jones, Route 6, Box 78j, Jacksonville; Eugene Bland, Pinetta; Larry Loadholtz, Box 45, Seville
1951 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait
1952 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait
1952 Boys 4-H club members eat watermelon at camp.
1953 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait
1953 Charlotte Woodward, president of the Pinetta Girls' Club (left), Mrs. Ruth M. Elkins and Maudie Hart, stencil some book ends at Camp Cherry Lake which is located near Madison. August 6, 1953. Photo by JFC.
1955 Woodrow Brown Presents an Award
1955 Boys State 4-H Club Agent Woodrow Brown Receives National 4-H Congress Registration Kit
1955 4-H boys shaking hands with Boys State 4-H Club Agent on campus at the University of Florida
1955 Boys program state 4-H staff and others in a meeting
1955 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait
1955 Woodrow Brown Talks to Florida 4-H Delegates During Orientation at National 4-H Club Congress
1955 Boys 4-H scholarship winner receives his award. 4-H banner in the background.
1955 Boy winning public speaking during Short Course on the University of Florida campus shaking boys state 4-H club agent Woodrow Brown's hand. 4-H banner in the background.
1955 4-H boys at Short Course on the UF campus.
1955 Woodrow W. Brown, state 4-H boys club agent, looks over tractor manuals with 4-H members in 1955.
1955 Woodrow W. Brown meets Mr. Talbot and Mrs. Brown in 1955
1957 4-H Club Dairy Show. Boys and girls with dairy cows and 4-H banner in the background.
1957 Girls State 4-H Council officers
1957 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait
1957 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation by a bus
1957 John Woodruff of Santa Rosa County won the state tractor operators contest and will represent Florida at the Eastern States Tractor Operators' Contest in Richmond.
1957 Bankers' scholarship winners at 1957 Club Short Course on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. L to R: Henry Moore, Walton County; Dan Norris, Lake County; Ed Lee Ayers, Nanatee; P.M. Hendrick, Hamilton; Mr. Earl Hardde, Gainesville banker; Austin Tilton, Putnam; Jay Bossinger, Manatee; and Bobby Muraro, Lake.
1958 National 4-H Conference Florida Delegation with Legislators by the United State Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo is signed.
1958 National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation at Dinner.
1959 Florida 4-H members with state governor for a proclamation signing.
1959 Joey Watkins and Judith Lively, Hawthorne, 1957. 4-H calendar.
? African-American 4-H Club girls and an adult ready to board a schoolbus.
? State 4-H Council officers, meeting in Gainesville, get together with James E. Gorman, Managing Director of the Florida Chain of Store Council, which sponsors the activities of the two councils. L to R: Thomas Floyd, Escambia, vice-president, boys' councils; Sandra Dennison, Orange, president, girls' council; Mr. Gorman; Sue Roberts, Hardee, vice-president, girls; Billy Avery, Suwaneee, president, boys. Unknown date."
? Two 4-H girls drinking milk out of glass bottles
? Girls State 4-H Short Course Assembly. Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee.
? Girls at State 4-H Short Course. Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee.
? Governor signs 4-H proclamation. Boys State 4-H Council and Girls State 4-H Council representatives.
? Three 4-H boys with lamps
? M.O. Watkins and Anna Mae Sikes, Other adults
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