4-H Dress Revue

Name/Title

4-H Dress Revue

Entry/Object ID

17.03.9

Description

Material: paper. Size: 3" x 2". In this vintage black and white photograph, a group of young girls is gathered outdoors, wearing patterned dresses that suggest a typical fashion style of the 1930s. The background shows a rural setting, with open fields, a few trees, and vintage cars parked behind a wire fence. A sign can be seen in the distance. The girls stand closely together, some holding pieces of fabric.

Context

A group of 4-H members, another group of the first-year dress revue at the Waseca County Fair in 1939, wearing their handmade clothes. Photographs attached to 17.03 are from the 1936-1940 4-H scrapbook documenting the activities and people of the Waseca County 4-H Clubs, including the Woodville Hustlers, the Palmer Sunbeams, Waldorf Peppy Peppers. There are photos at the Minnesota State Fair and the Waseca County Fair showing all kinds of competitions, demonstrations of home and farm learning of skills.

Cataloged By

Pfen

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

May 1, 2006

Update Date

May 21, 2025