Specific surveys include: management of family finances, Livingston County, New York, 1928-1929; cost of living for farm families, Tompkins County, New York, 1928-1929; economic contributions of household members, New York State, 1960-1961; financial management practices of young families, Tompkins County, New York, 1955-1958; financial management in relation to family values and concepts of financial security, Norwich, New York, 1961; financial management of graduate women, Cornell University, 1955; financial management from marriage to 1935, Tompkins and Livingston Counties, New York, 1935; food shopping practices of families, Cleveland, Ohio and Rochester, New York, 1939; kinds and amounts of representative foods used during one week, Cleveland, Ohio and Rochester, New York, 1938; management of food purchases and meals, New York State, 1959; food consumption of farm and village families, central New York State, 1927; inventories of outerwear of farm families, Tompkins County, New York, 1950; types of equipment found in homes, Buffalo, New York, 1949; repair of small household electrical appliances, Canandaigua, New York, 1956; use of small kitchen equipment by young families, Ithaca, New York and vicinity, 1936; use of carpentry tools as a home management resource, New York State, 1945; major equipment work space, and storage space in homes, Ithaca, New York and vicinity, 1936-42; acceptance of the mechanical dishwasher, Rochester, New York, 1955-56; laundry practices and equipment, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1959; and family laundry practices and costs, Tompkins County, New York, 1945.

Also, buying and selling potatoes in retail groceries, Cleveland, Ohio and Rochester, New York, 1937-1938; price variation in retail grocery stores, New York State, 1935; availability and price of fruits and vegetables in retail stores, Ithaca, New York, 1942-1945; store practices and the sale of washing machines on credit, New York State, 1938-1940; size of purchasing centers of families, New York State, 1928; a study of credit bureaus, New York State, 1940-1942; decision-making concerning household activities, New York State, 1957; daily activities of homemakers confined to wheel chairs, Ithaca, New York and vicinity, 1954; distance traveled in farm homes when preparing and serving food and washing dishes, Seneca County, New York, 1949-1951; financial education at the secondary school level, Sherburne, New York, 1949; and selection of heat for cooking, New York, 1953.

Includes correspondence, surveys, publications and class projects, concerning various courses taught in the department, including work that contributed to the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership in 1931 and photographs of kitchens from homes in the local area.