New York State College of Agriculture 4-H club records

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Identifier: 21-24-692

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Mainly annual reports of the various New York State county 4-H Club agents, consisting of mimeographed and printed forms providing statistical data concerning membership, projects, and agents' activities, typescript, and "Narrative Reports" which the agents wrote to summarize and interpret the results accomplished and the extension methods used. Some reports include photographs and newspaper clippings; also, correspondence, programs, minutes, reports, announcements, circular letters, photographs and printed material concerning the State Leaders' Training Camps, the New York State 4-H Health Committee, 4-H Clubs at the New York State Fair, annual State 4-H Club congresses, the New York State 4-H Extension Federation, the Older Rural Youth and Young Adult Programs, Junior Field Days at Cornell University, and annual conferences of the Extension Service and the county 4-H agents; correspondents include F. E. Heinzelman and Professor William J. Wright, club leaders, Albert Hoefer, State 4-H Club leader and director of the State Leaders' Training Camps, and W. Jack Weaver, assistant in the Agricultural Education Bureau of the State Education Department. Also, scrapbooks of clippings and photographs (6 volumes, 1931-1953) pertaining to the activities and accomplishments of the various New York State county 4-H Clubs and their members, including photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and a box of films.

Dates

1918 - 2019

Creator

New York State College of Agriculture. Extension Service (Organization)

Extent

65.3 cubic feet. (65.3 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Mainly annual reports of the various New York State county 4-H Club agents.

RELATED MATERIAL

See also collections #23-2-749, New York State College of Home Economics records; and #21-24-1975, Cornell University Cooperative Extension records

The film Learning for the Future: 4-H in New York City from this collection has been digitized and can be found on Cornell's Library Media Space website along with other Home Economics and related films.

Physical Description

Reports, correspondence, programs, minutes, announcements, circular letters, photographs, scrapbooks, films, printed material.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: M. Warren
Date completed:: March 1987
EAD encoding:: Ann Hubert, October 2003
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, July 2018