Oklahoma 4-H Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1986-006
Scope and Contents
Collection contains 4-H brochures, newsletters, Members’ Guides, Leaders’ Guides, Members’ Manuals, Projects, Target Program Guides, Target Leaders’ Guides, general manuals, banquet and event programs, administrative files, photographs, slides, audio and visual tapes. Most materials pertain specifically to Oklahoma 4-H, but the collection also contains materials and publications of National 4-H programs.
Dates
- 1930s-Present
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.
Conditions Governing Use
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, Oklahoma State University Archives will provide information about copyright owners and related information. Securing permission to publish or use material is the responsibility of the researcher. Note that unless specifically transferred to Oklahoma State University Libraries, any applicable copyrights may be held by another individual or entity. Copyright for material published by Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College/Oklahoma State University is held by the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges. All rights reserved.
Administrative History
The Federal Cooperative Demonstration program included children in its activities as early as 1906. The children were encouraged to participate in boys and girls clubs that promoted good agricultural and home economics practices. The Smith-Lever act of 1914 provided for creation of a permanent Cooperative Demonstration program funded by the federal governments and administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the land-grant colleges. 4-H was a continuation of the early boys’ and girls’ clubs and was administered by the Cooperative Extension program at Oklahoma A&M College beginning in 1916. The current 4-H program offers some eighty different projects for boys, girls and their families. The projects are tools used to teach life skills through hands on experiential learning methods. In addition to club work, the 4-H program offers a variety of school enrichment programs that classroom teachers can use to enhance the core subjects they teach. Some of the publications in this collection are numbered with a 4-H literature number, while some are not. Leaders’ Guides, Members’ Manuals and Guides, Projects and other pieces of literature that are intended as learning resources for club members are housed in the Member’s Guides, Leader’s Guides and Projects Series. Publications entitled “Program Ideas” are one incarnation of 4-H Member’s Guides. The content of these publications is the same as many of the Member’s Guides. These publications are also dispersed amongst the subheadings in the Member’s Guide’s series. Many early Member’s Guides, Manuals, etc. were published as Extension Circulars or Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins. These publications can be found in the Circular and Bulletin collections. Copies may be in this collection, but only if they are duplicates of what exists in the Circular and Bulletin collections.
Extent
39 Linear feet (22 half size record storage boxes; 4 slim document boxes; 12 document boxes; 1 record storage box; 3 shoe boxes; 1 record album box; 11 flat boxes of varying size; 2 map drawers)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged into seven series.
Location
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog or contact the Oklahoma State University Archives Reference staff.
Provenance
Transferred from the Cooperative Extension, OSU.
Processing Information
Processed by SCUA Staff.
Updated by Emily Ford, April 2005; Emily Burgard, 2012-2013
Updated by Emily Ford, April 2005; Emily Burgard, 2012-2013
- 4-H clubs -- History.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Adair County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Alfalfa County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Beaver County.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Blaine County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Bryan County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Canadian County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Carter County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Cherokee County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Cleveland County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Comanche County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Ellis County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Garfield County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Grant County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Haskell -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Jackson County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Kay County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Kingfisher County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Le Flore County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Logan County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Marshall County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Mayes County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- McClain County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- McIntosh County.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Muskogee County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Oklahoma County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Ottawa County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Pittsburg County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Pontotoc County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Pottawatomie County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Seminole County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Texas County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Tillman County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Washington County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Washita County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma -- Woodward County -- Periodicals.
- 4-H clubs -- Oklahoma.
- 4-H clubs.
- Agricultural education.
- Agricultural extension work -- Oklahoma -- Grant County -- Periodicals.
- Agricultural extension work -- Oklahoma -- Marshall County -- Periodicals.
- Agricultural extension work -- Oklahoma -- Oklahoma County -- Periodicals.
- Agricultural extension work -- Oklahoma -- Pontotoc County -- Periodicals.
- Agricultural extension work -- Oklahoma -- Woods County -- Periodicals.
- Agricultural extension work -- Oklahoma.
- Child development.
- Environmental education -- Activity programs.
- Home economics.
- National 4-H Service Committee.
- Oklahoma 4-H Foundation. -- Periodicals.
- Oklahoma State University. Kay County Cooperative Extension Service. -- Periodicals.
- Oklahoma State University. Kingfisher County Cooperative Extension Service. -- Periodicals.
- Oklahoma State University. Logan County Cooperative Extension Service. -- Periodicals.
- Teaching -- Aids and devices.
- Title
- Oklahoma 4-H Collection Collection Number 1986-006
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- SCUA Staff
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Oklahoma State University Archives Repository
Contact:
204 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater 74078-1071 USA
libscua@okstate.edu
204 Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater 74078-1071 USA
libscua@okstate.edu