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Mary A. Carpenter 4-H Sunshine Clothing Club Notebook

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Title	Mary A. Carpenter 4-H Sunshine Clothing Club Notebook
Subject	Agriculture Ohio Women Arts and Entertainment Education 4-H clubs Textiles
Place	Prarie Depot (Ohio) Wayne (Ohio) Wood County (Ohio)
Description	This notebook belonged to fifteen-year-old Mary A. Carpenter of Prairie Depot, Ohio. She was a member of the Sunshine Clothing Club, a 4-H Club in Wood County, and used the notebook to record her work on a sewing project. Carpenter wrote her answers to such questions as, "why should undergarments be made of white materials?" and "name three principles of good buying." The notebook is 16 pages and measures 9" x 6" (23 x 15 cm). 4-H, a voluntary organization devoted to providing agricultural education for young people, was established by Champaign County, Ohio native Albert B. Graham in 1902. Mary A. Carpenter (1908-1933) was born in Rudolph, Ohio. She graduated from Wayne High School in Wayne, Ohio in 1926 and entered Tiffin University. In 1927 she left the university to take a job as a Dictaphone operator at Willys Overland Company in Toledo. In 1931 she married Ralph Shearer of Wayne, Ohio. Two years later, she contracted pneumonia and died.
Creator	Carpenter, Mary A. , 1908-1933
Date of Original	1923
Collection	Carpenter Family Papers http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms0007.html
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) MS 7
Submitting Institution	Center for Archival Collections--Bowling Green State University
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om1871_1834796_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1871_1834796_001.tif
Image Height	2676
Image Width	1780
File Size	1496.423 KB
Full Text	Printed Text Name: Mary A. Carpenter Age: 15 Address: Prairie Depot County: Wood Name of Club: Sunshine Clothing Club Local Club Leader: Mrs. De Wyer

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