4-H Centennial Photo Gallery: 1940s



	4-H celebrates: 1940s
	4-H’ers help during WWII to spread the word that increased food production will “help win the war, save starving people, and help win the peace.” 4-H Victory Gardens sprang up across the state.	For more information about the Iowa 4-H Historical Photo Gallery contact Carol Ouverson, ISU Extension communication specialist, couverso@iastate.edu.
	The flier at left reads: “These and millions of other people . . . must be fed, and Iowa 4-H girls must and can help to feed them.” The flier at the right, “Enlist in the 4-H Victory Army,” says that more than 25,000 Iowa young people aided their country through 4-H Club work in 1944. Below, 4-H girls plant beets and carrots.
	A campaign begins in 1946 to build an Iowa 4-H Camp. 4-H girls voted in favor of it at their 1945 State Convention. Both boys and girls attending the 1946 4-H Conservation Camp approved the idea.
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