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4-H and Home Demonstration during the Great Depression: During the first few years of the Great Depression, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service agents focused on emergency relief for adult farmers rather than the 4-H program. By 1933 club enrollment fell to its lowest levels since 1925, and the summer...; Format: article; By Amy Manor.

4-H Club girl showing off Canned Goods: This black and white photograph shows a 4-H club girl standing in front of an open floor-to-ceiling cupboard that has six shelves filled with canned goods. The girl holds two canning jars in the crook of her left arm and is reaching for another jar with her...; Format: image/photograph

4-H club members participating in family recreation on the Stanly County Farm and Home Tour: In this black and white photograph, two children are crouching in the dirt, playing. The little girl in a gingham dress is shooting marbles into a circle that's been drawn out. The boy, who is wearing overalls is leaning back against a tree looking at something...; Format: image/photograph

4-H club members playing ring-around-the-rosie at camp: In this black and white photograph, a group of little girls play Ring-Around-the-Rosie outside in grass while a taller girl looks on. In the background in a brick building with large shrubs partially concealing it from view.; Format: image/photograph

Bonus marchers and police battle in Washington, DC: Original caption read, "'Bonus Marchers' and police battle in Washington, DC. The marchers came to Washington, DC, to demand their veterans 'bonus' payment early from Congress. After several months of camping near the Anacostia River and after several confrontations...; Format: image/photograph

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.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies); By Melissa Thibault.

Children standing near cars at Lake Waccamaw encampment: This black and white image show several young boys and girls standing in a yard by 1930s era cars or buses while their mothers watch from the porch of a two-story house. The boys are wearing knickers and “newsboy” caps.; Format: image/photograph

Dairy judging teams at work during the 1932 [4-H] Short Course; the barn stood on the site of the present-day [Reynolds] Coliseum.: In this black and white photograph, several teams are lined up judging cattle. Team members are wearing light-colored summer clothing and appear to have assigned roles. Some are bent over inspecting cattle characteristics. Some are observing. Others are recording...; Format: image/photograph

Dental hygiene: This black and white photograph shows a dark-haired boy with a freckled face. A dentist is standing to his side holding the boy's mouth open with dental tools to show rotten teeth.; Format: image/photograph

General statement of Sherlock Bronson: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.6; Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation General Office 1413-15-17 East Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia April 13, 1939. Hon. Graham A. Barden, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Barden: Upon my return to Richmond after my interview with you...

Grooming: This black and white illustration is the cover of a pamphlet on grooming that was issued by the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service in 1939. Under the title, “Grooming,” sits a fashionable and svelte young woman who is posing with her...; Format: image/illustration

Grooming in 1930s North Carolina: Using primary source materials, this lesson plan provides a glimpse into the lives of girls and women from the 1930s and will give students the opportunity to study what was considered attractive for the time, how the Depression affected grooming practices, and the universal concept of healthful living.; Format: article (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Henry Ford with 400 baby chicks: Henry Ford, a member of the Four Oaks 4-H Club, Four Oaks, Johnston County, North Carolina, Rt. 1, is shown doing his part to speed up the production of poultry. This black and white image shows him crouching down with his elbows on his knees in his tobacco...; Format: image/photograph

Letter activity one: In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 2; The following excerpt is from a letter from Mr. Sherlock Bronson, a lawyer and president of Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation, to the Honorable Graham Braden, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives. It was written March 16, 1939. The...; Format: lesson plan; By Pauline S. Johnson.

Letter activity three: In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 4; On April 13, 1939, Mr. Sherlock Bronson wrote a "General statement of Sherlock Bronson of the circumstances and conditions under which the survey of industrial conditions in the tobacco bag stringing area was made, and certain conclusions therefrom" and sent...; Format: lesson plan; By Pauline S. Johnson.

Letter activity two: In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 3; Read the three short letters of March 31, 1939, April 1, 1939, and April 7, 1939. Who wrote each of...; Format: lesson plan; By Pauline S. Johnson.

Letter of April 1, 1939: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.4; Box 132, R. #1, Leaksville, N.C., April 1, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Box 644, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir: I am kindly writing asking you please not to take the stringing of bags away from Mrs. Jones, our Agent for our community. For two years I have stringing...

Letter of April 7, 1939: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.5; MORSE BAG COMPANY East Bend, North Carolina. April 7, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir: In compliance with your request of March 28th, I am glad to give you an idea of my experience in working with tobacco bags. My mother and father,...

Letter of March 16, 1939: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.1; Law Offices Tucker, Bronson, Satterfield & Mays State Planters Bank Building Richmond, Virginia March 16, 1939 Hon. Graham A. Barden, House of Representatives Washington, D.C. In Re: Fair Labor Standards Act. Dear Mr. Barden: I am deeply grateful to you for...

Letter of March 31, 1939: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.3; Taylorsville, N.C., March 31, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson Richmond, Virginia Dear Mr. Bronson: I am deeply grateful to you and to all others who have made it possible for us to carry on this work, The Stringing of Tobacco Bags, in our county. It is our greatest...

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