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4-H Club boy feeding pig
4-H Club boy feeding pig
This ca. 1930 black and white image shows a 4-H club boy feeding a pig. The boy is crouching down next to a wooden feeding trough from which a large dark-colored pig is eating. The handle of an empty slop bucket rests in his hands. The freckle-faced boy is...
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4-H club boys and girls exhibiting their Victory Garden posters
4-H club boys and girls exhibiting their Victory Garden posters
A group of 15 students are pictured in this black and white photograph showing their 4-H posters which celebrate “Victory Gardens.” Six girls are standing behind a group of kneeling boys and girls in front of some tall pine trees and a hedge.
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4-H club children examine plants
4-H club children examine plants
In this black and white photograph, a black boy wearing thick-rimmed glasses is sitting at a school desk and examining a plant. The rootball is exposed and he is pulling out a few strands of the root system. Surrounding him and looking on are six other children,...
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4-H Club family in their garden
4-H Club family in their garden
In this black and white photograph, three members of the Sauls family, two older girls dressed in skirts and a young boy in overalls, are seen planting a field in Wake County, North Carolina. The boy is shown making holes in the soil with a hoe. One of the...
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4-H club girl sorting eggs for packaging
4-H club girl sorting eggs for packaging
An older man and a young girl can be seen standing in front of an egg sorting machine in this black and white photograph. The girl is taking eggs out of a wire basket and placing them on a conveyor to be sorted. The eggs roll into a box on a wooden stand as...
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4-H club girl standing next to poultry house
4-H club girl standing next to poultry house
In this black and white photograph, a young woman stands in the grass next to a large poultry house containing dozens of chickens. She wears a patterned dress that comes just below her knees and a scarf wrapped around her head. The poultry house has two parts....
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4-H club member standing next to two calves who are eating grass
4-H club member standing next to two calves who are eating grass
In this black and white photograph a young boy wearing rolled-up blue jeans, a ball cap, and a white t-shirt stands next to two grazing calves.
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4-H Corn Exhibit at the NC State Fair
4-H Corn Exhibit at the NC State Fair
“4-H Club Trains Farm Youth in the Art of Living” is written on a banner over a 4-H club corn exhibit in this black and white photograph taken at the North Carolina State Fair in 1938. In the forefront of the image, on a table, are wooden trays...
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The African American State Fair
In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.10
For several years in the late nineteenth century, African American farmers held their own state fair in Raleigh to showcase improvements in agriculture.
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By Jim L. Sumner.
Agricultural implements from Jamestown settlement
Agricultural implements from Jamestown settlement
Farm tools used by an early settler for cultivating his newly cleared land. The tools were found by archaeologists working near Jamestown, Virginia, in the mid-1900s.
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Barning the tobacco
Barning the tobacco
Two men "barning" tobacco, packing it for storage in a barn.
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Boy and two sheep
Boy and two sheep
In this black and white photograph, two sheep are standing in the foreground. Behind them, a boy standing in front of a barn looks on.
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Boy participating in the International Farm Youth Exchange program examining cows in Craven County, North Carolina
Boy participating in the International Farm Youth Exchange program examining cows in Craven County, North Carolina
In this black and white photograph, a boy stands with his hands on his hips in a field observing his cattle.
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Bright leaf tobacco
Bright leaf tobacco
Bright leaf tobacco grows on a farm in North Carolina's Piedmont. Pilot Mountain stands in the background to the right.
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Chatham County farmers protest
In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.4
Petition from the Chatham County Farmers Alliance to the North Carolina General Assembly, 1889, asking for legislation protecting the interests of farmers. Includes historical commentary.
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Chickens in poultry house, Vance County, North Carolina, 4-H Club
Chickens in poultry house, Vance County, North Carolina, 4-H Club
In this black and white photograph, dozens of white chickens are pecking around in a small barn or large poultry house. A boy in jeans and a ball cap leans against a pole looking on. The barn has been wired for electricity and a lightbulb and many cords dangle...
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The Columbian Exchange at a glance
In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.2
Countless animals, plants, and microorganisms crossed the Atlantic Ocean with European explorers and colonists in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This chart lists some of the organisms that had the greatest impact on human society worldwide.
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Combine
Combine
An old-style combine (reaper and thresher) in Australia.
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Corn Club member standing in corn field
Corn Club member standing in corn field
A young boy is seen standing in a field of corn in this 1925 black and white photograph. He is a member of the Corn Club. He is wearing overalls and a long sleeved, striped shirt. His left hand is grasping a corn stalk. In his right is a large brimmed straw...
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Cotton clouds
Cotton clouds
A cotton field in Stanly County, North Carolina.
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