Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
RS 16/3/60
Jessie Field Shambaugh (1881-1971)
Collection, 1901-1998, n.d.
Descriptive summary
| creator: | Shambaugh, Jessie Field |
| title: | Collection |
| dates: | 1901-1998, n.d. |
| extent: | 0.84 linear ft. (2 document boxes) |
| collection number: | RS 16/3/60 |
| repository: | University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University. |
Administrative information
| access: | Open for research |
| publication rights: | Consult Head, Special Collections Department |
| preferred citation: | Jessie Field Shambaugh Collection, RS 16/3/60, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library. |
Biographical note
Celestia Josephine "Jessie" Field was born in Shenandoah, Iowa on June 26, 1881. She died in 1971 after suffering a hip fracture and developing pneumonia. She is buried in Clarinda, Iowa. She graduated from Shenandoah High School in 1899 and attended Western Normal College in Shenandoah until the spring of 1901, when she accepted a teaching position at Goldenrod School in Page County, Iowa. As a teacher she developed a curriculum that related to the children's environment and future occupations. She developed a Girls Home Club and Boys Corn Club, the forerunner of 4-H Clubs. The Clubs met on alternating days with the boys studying agriculture with scientific emphasis and the girls studying gardening, cooking, sewing, and other homemaking arts. She is known as the mother of 4-H. |
Collection description
The Shambaugh Papers consist mainly of information written about Jessie Field Shambaugh and her pioneering efforts to create the 4-H movement. There is a cassette tape of a slide presentation entitled, "Jessie Field, Mother of 4-H," two additional cassette tapes of a speech and interview with Shambaugh, photographs of Shambaugh as well as photographs of a watch given to her in 1911, and scrapbooks. |
Container list
Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
1 |
1 |
Brochure – Humanities on the Mall |
n.d. |
1 |
2 |
Cassette Tape – Early History of Jessie Field by Heather Watkins |
1990 |
1 |
3 |
Cassette Tape – Readings from Shambaugh Works, by Gruber and Matt Witmer |
n.d. |
1 |
4 |
Cassette Tape – Readings from Shambaugh Works, by Reverend Mark Witmer and Heather Watkins |
n.d. |
1 |
5 |
Brochures – Goldenrod School |
n.d. |
1 |
6 |
News Clippings |
1916 |
1 |
7 |
Goldfinch – Vol. 9, number 3, Feb. 1988 |
1988 |
1 |
8 |
Script – "Harvest of Stars" |
1947 |
1 |
9 |
Palimpsest Magazine – Shambaugh Article |
1981 |
1 |
10 |
Watkins, Heather Scrapbook – "Walking Through History With My Grandmother" |
n.d. |
1 |
11 |
Reel to Reel, Cassette Tapes – Interview with Shambaugh and Speech from 4-H Convention (both sets have same contents) |
1957 |
1 |
12 |
Paper – "I Knew Professor P.G. Holden" |
1948 |
1 |
13-14 |
Writings, Articles, Correspondence – 4H, Shambaugh (2 5x7" color photos) |
1917-1989, n.d. |
2 |
1 |
Writings, Articles, Correspondence – 4H, Shambaugh |
1901-1996 |
2 |
2 |
Writings, Articles, Correspondence – 4H, Shambaugh |
1908-1964 |
2 |
3 |
Writings, Articles, Correspondence – 4H, Shambaugh |
1968-1998 |
2 |
4 |
Photos (2 8x10", 2 5x7", 2 4x5" b/w) |
1906-1917 |