Historic plaque, First Girl's Tomato Club in Texas Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Historic plaque, First Girl's Tomato Club in Texas

Creator

  • Photographer: Belden, Dreanna L.
    Creator Type: Personal

Date

  • Creation: 2006-10-08
  • Digitized: 2007-08-14

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Photograph of a historic plaque in Cameron, Texas. It reads: "First Girl's Tomato Club in Texas. The first Girl's Tomato Clubs in Texas were organized in 1912 in Milam County to acquaint young women in rural areas with tomato production and canning techniques. At the request of the United States Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Edna Westbrook Trigg, a local high school principal, agreed to undertake the project. She organized eleven clubs throughout the county, with members ranging in age from ten to eighteen. A similar program for boys, the Corn Clubs, had been instituted in Jack County four years earlier. Each member of the Girl's Tomato Clubs was to produce a tomato crop on one-tenth of an acre of land and then was taught proper canning procedures. The girls exhibited their products at Milano, Rockdale, the 1913 State Fair in Dallas, and the Waco Cotton Palace. So successful were these exhibits that several of the girls started college education funds with the money they raised selling their goods. As the state's first rural girl's organization of its kind, the Tomato Clubs were forerunners of later programs, including 4-H, that were initiated under the supervision of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Over time, 4-H has expanded its scope but has maintained the principle objectives of its predecessors."
  • Physical Description: 1 photograph : digital, col.

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Architecture - Monuments
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Architecture - Landmarks - Historic Markers
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Places - United States - Texas - Milam County - Cameron
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Social Life and Customs - Clubs and Organizations - 4-H
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Social Life and Customs - Fairs and Exhibitions

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Milam County - Cameron
  • Time Period: mod-tim
  • Coverage Date: 2006-10-08
  • Place Point: north=30.850318044953756; east=-96.97671676556087;

Collection

  • Name: Photographing Texas
    Code: TP

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: by-nc-nd

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth28327

Note

  • Digital Preservation: creationAppName: Adobe Acrobat creationAppVersion: 6
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