Agents in training to can tomatoes and green beans. The canner is the popular Flowers model manufactured in Hickory [North Carolina]. The can with the label is a 4-H brand for green beans

Title

Agents in training to can tomatoes and green beans. The canner is the popular Flowers model manufactured in Hickory [North Carolina]. The can with the label is a 4-H brand for green beans

Description

Seven women and two extension agents were photographed during a lesson on canning (ca. 1920-1929.) The canner depicted was a popular Flowers model manufactured in Hickory, North Carolina. The can with the label was a 4-H brand for green beans.

Creator

Unknown

Source

"Agents in Training to Can Tomatoes and Green Beans," UA 023.008.100, 4-H Projects and Demonstrations: Home economics, NCSU Libraries' Digital Collections, accessed October 14, 2014, http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0001000.

Date

1920 - 1929

Subject

4-H clubs
Canned foods
North Carolina State University. Department of 4-H Youth Development

Publisher

NCSU Libraries

Rights

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Relation

Green 'N' Growing: The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina
University Archives Photograph Collection

Format

Black-and-white print (photograph); 20 x 24 cm.

Identifier

http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0001000

Coverage

1920 - 1929
North Carolina
35.50069, -80.00032

Files

agents in training.jpg

Citation

Unknown, “Agents in training to can tomatoes and green beans. The canner is the popular Flowers model manufactured in Hickory [North Carolina]. The can with the label is a 4-H brand for green beans,” The State of History, accessed June 12, 2025, https://soh.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/28713.

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