Jessie Field Shambaugh papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RS 16/3/60

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The Shambaugh Papers consist mainly of information written about Jessie Field Shambaugh and her pioneering efforts to create the 4-H movement. There is a cassette tape of a slide presentation entitled, “Jessie Field, Mother of 4-H,” two additional cassette tapes of a speech and interview with Shambaugh, photographs of Shambaugh as well as photographs of a watch given to her in 1911, and scrapbooks.

Dates

1901-1998, undated

Language of Materials

English

Access Restrictions

Open for research.

Use/Re-use Restrictions

Consult Special Collections and University Archives

Biography/Profile

Celestia Josephine “Jessie” Field was born in Shenandoah, Iowa on June 26, 1881. She died in 1971 after suffering a hip fracture and developing pneumonia. She is buried in Clarinda, Iowa. She graduated from Shenandoah High School in 1899 and attended Western Normal College in Shenandoah until the spring of 1901, when she accepted a teaching position at Goldenrod School in Page County, Iowa. As a teacher she developed a curriculum that related to the children’s environment and future occupations. She developed a Girls Home Club and Boys Corn Club, the forerunner of 4-H Clubs. The Clubs met on alternating days with the boys studying agriculture with scientific emphasis and the girls studying gardening, cooking, sewing, and other homemaking arts. She is known as the mother of 4-H.

Extent

0.84 Linear Feet (2 document boxes)

Additional Description

Items in related collections

RS 16/3. Iowa State University. Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics records

Processing Information

Released on 2018-11-01.

Subjects

4-H clubs--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Agricultural extension work--Iowa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Agriculture--Iowa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Agriculture--Iowa--Study and teaching Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Agriculturists--Iowa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Iowa State College. Cooperative Extension Service
Women in agriculture--Iowa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings