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Home economics extension work.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Albany County Home Bureau Clara Barton Unit records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065218236]
Identifier: 2595
Scope and content

Secretary's minutes, schedules of meetings, membership lists, attendance records, treasurer's reports, bills and receipts, reports on work meetings, correspondence of home demonstration agents and members, and mimeographed or printed reports, memoranda, newsletters, and other items, many of which were distributed by the Albany office or by the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University.

Dates: 1941-1957.

Cooperative Extension Association of Tompkins County records

 Collection
Identifier: 4287
Abstract

General files related to county extension work, including publications, reports, photographs, and meeting minutes

Dates: 1914-2010.

Erl Bates papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-24-790
Abstract

Papers include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the background and passage of a state bill (1920) appropriating $10,000 to the College of Agriculture for Indian extension work and to the early progress of this work; correspondence and printed, mimeographed, and typescript reports, memoranda, newsletters, and pamphlets pertaining to the Cornell Indian Boards, Six Nations' Agricultural Society, Indian Farmers' Schools.

Dates: [ca. 1920-1960].

Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1230
Abstract

Biannual conversations with adults and children eight and older, individually and in family groups, in a panel of thirty-three New York and Iowa farm families concerning how the occupation of farming is organized and conducted.

Dates: 1966-1982.

Gladys Reid Holton papers

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113554731]
Identifier: 4385
Scope and content Diaries and scrapbooks; class notes from Geneseo Normal School, the University of Rochester, and Syracuse University; a photo album, and correspondence; notes relating to her teaching in Rochester, N.Y.; files relating to extension work and the Home Bureau; W.C.T.U. files; and miscellaneous clippings and publications. Also one manuscript volume "Poems, Maybe" by Grace Evelyn Mills. Also one folder containing correspondence (1956) relating to a "fashion" exhibit mounted by Mrs. Holton, and...
Dates: ca. 1916-1980.

Hazel Reed papers

 Collection
Identifier: 23-17-270
Abstract

Pamphlets, mimeographed circulars, a letter, and other items pertaining to public health and safety; also, newspaper clippings, letters, and circulars concerning the Home Bureau's sponsorship of a United Nations flag sewing project in 1950.

Dates: 1949-1954.

Helen Vandervort papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 65 - folder 1
Identifier: 4378
Abstract Correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, photographs, printed materials, certificates, and biography relating to Vandervort's work with the Tompkins County Public Library and the Finger Lakes Library System; the Tompkins County Senior Citizens' Council and senior citizens issues; the New York State College of Human Ecology; the New York State Fair; and women's rights issues. Also, letters from the Bull family (1922-26), interviews with Helen Vandervort by Eleanor Randles and...
Dates: 1922-1994.

Mabel A. Milhan, compiler, scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924404]
Identifier: 2379
Scope and content

Indexed clipping scrapbooks and unmounted pamphlets and clippings used to illustrate talks Milhan gave during her 25 years in home demonstration work; subjects include the history of food, clothing, and various customs; persons active in home demonstration extension work; and the history of home economics.

Dates: [ca. 1913-1963]

Martha H. Eddy papers

 Collection
Identifier: 23-17-273
Abstract

Letters, mimeographed reports, circulars, questionnaires, and other materials received or written by Eddy. Most of the material deals with public health, especially pneumonia control, and the public health activities of the New York State Department of Health and the New York Home Bureau.

Dates: 1937-1949.

New York State College of Home Economics records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23-2-749
Abstract Collection includes administrative records; records of the College's involvement with government, educational, and private organizations at the national, state, and local levels; College activities within divisions of the University; the College's involvement in World War I, World War II, ; student activities of undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni; teaching and research studies and reports; and extension work. Also included is a large amount of material related to the history of...
Dates: 1875-1979.