West Virginia University, Extension Service, Records

Access and use

Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Restrictions:

No special access restrictions apply.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.

Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, Extension Service, Records, A&M 5182, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
89.17 Linear Feet 89 ft. 2 in. (46 records cartons, 15 in. each); (22 records cartons, 17 in. each); (2 film containers, 6 in.)
Creator:
West Virginia University. Extension Service
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, Extension Service, Records, A&M 5182, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the administrative records of the West Virginia University Extension Service. Subjects include West Virginia agriculture, forestry, 4-H and other youth and community outreach programs. Formats include correspondence, reports, publications, curriculum files, photographs, slides, sound recordings and films.

This collection is minimally processed. Loose, unlabeled and disorganized slides have been placed into envelopes labeled "loose slides" for ease of access. Slides that were found grouped together with rubber bands and other fasteners have been placed into unlabeled envelopes.

Includes courses in public speaking, small business and rural tourism.

Virtual Institute for Small Town and Rural Development.

Photos include youth 4-H events and various vocational technology trainings.

Newsletters, budgets, correspondence, handouts and training manuals.

Photos of youth 4-H programs, particularly at Jackson's Mill.

Photos of youth 4-H programs and Appalachian people.

Programs and reports from various committees and events, slide file boxes.

Subjects include extension conferences and initiatives, 4-H trips and the Farm Bureau.

Primarily diversity initiatives, internal memos and news clippings.

Primarily pertaining to the West Virginia Center for Appalachian Studies and Development.

4-H children, WVU agriculture and forestry programs, economic and community development events.

Miscellaneous slides, including a collection from the 1972 children's television program, Mulligan Stew , produced by the United States Department of Agriculture and 4-H.

Miscellaneous slides, prints of 4-H youth, Extension newsletters, Focus and News and Perspectives .

Includes the Pepper Project and Greenbrier City Recycling Center.

Slides of a wide range of subjects.

Events such as rafting trips, firefighter training, hunter safety, homemakers club, Sternwheel Regatta, 4-H.

Conference on aging, food and nutrition TV news feature, staff photos.

Project circulars, health and safety program, 1960 Dairy Princess contest.

Also includes some 4-H training recordings.

Several cassettes of the 1985 annual conference, various unlabeled CDs.

West Virginia Center for Life Long Learning (at Jackson's Mill) master plan summary (October 2000), annual plans of work.

4-H fliers, including the WV centennial, miscellaneous agriculture research, pamphlets, presentations, girls' camp program, entomology workbook for kids, photos of various farms.

Judge comment sheets from the 51st Annual Conference of the American Association of Agriculture College Editors. Also includes a guide to educational programs for women.

Homemakers and Home Economics (4-H) columns and stories.

Newsletters, project plans, correspondence, publication procedures, memos, budget and management records and program reports.

Primarily general correspondence and materials from the office of the vice president.

Extension Service newsletter, Communicator , files and slides related to education, environment and natural resources, agriculture and recreation and culture.

Binders of photo prints of West Virginia 4-H events, camps, agriculture and forestry. Also includes Jackson's Mill master plan summaries for 2000 and 2001.

Acquisition information:
Transfer from West Virginia University. Extension Service, 2014/04/22
Physical location:
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard