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4-H club girl examining canned foods as part of a 4-H food preservation program
About this photograph
Provided by the Green 'N' Growing Collection (The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina), Special Collections, North Carolina State University Libraries.
- Date created
- c. 1950
- License
- Copyright unknown.
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
See this photograph in context
- Canning for country and community: In this lesson plan, students will use primary source documents to evaluate the technological challenges of food preservation in the 30s and 40s, compare food preservation in the first half of the twentieth century with today, and consider the political role of food in the community.
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Learn more
- Search LEARN NC for 4-H clubs, canning, food, Green 'N' Growing, North Carolina, and preserving foods.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
In this black and white photograph a young woman in a dress with a 4-H patch over the breast is admiring a jar of preserved pears. Behind her is an entire cupboard filled with canning jar of other preserved foods.
