Home economics -- Study and teaching.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Andrews collection on home economics
Collection
Identifier: 1475
Abstract
Includes two letters to Andrews from Louis C. Karpinski (Cornell University Class of 1901); a draft of PIONEERING IN HOME ECONOMICS by Andrews, primarily concerning the development of home economics at Columbia, with a brief section on the College of Home Economics at Cornell University; and twelve photographs of black housing in Missouri around 1940. Publications and other writings on home economics, home economics leaders, domestic science, and extension services authored by the...
Dates:
1879-1958.
Cornell Nursery School records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23-13-2365
Abstract
Nursery School records, ca. 1920-1970; Nursery School administrative records, ca. 1920-1950; and Family Life class student reports, 1940s.
Dates:
1920-1970.
Cornell University Department of Household Economics and Management records
Collection
Identifier: 23-18-1789
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes department correspondence, 1928-1960, primarily letters of Helen Canon; also correspondence of Jean Warren, Edna Van Horn, Dorothy Dickens, Hazel Kyrk, Day Monroe, the Family Economics Division and Family Economics-Home Management Division of the American Home Economics Association. Issues of School of Living Bulletins, 1938-1942; and photographs and other material concerning Mabel Rollins, Lucille Williamson and Jean Warren. Also, thirty-five home account...
Dates:
1900-1981.
Cornell University Department of Human Development and Family Studies student papers
Collection
Identifier: 23-13-2542
Abstract
Papers written by students in HDFS 258 (Women's Studies 238). Topics include the Farmers' Wives Reading Course, given by the College of Home Economics, Martha Van Rensselaer, the "domecon" (Domestic Economics) baby program, and a 1948 film about the college. Miscellaneous topics concern organization including the Cosmopolitan Club, Frigga Fylgae, and S.E.D.O.W.A.H. (Scholarship, Enthusiasm, Dignity of Women in Agriculture and Home Economics), and a paper on Flemmie P. Kittrell. Also papers...
Dates:
1990-1997.
Cornell University Farm and Home Week records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-24-3104
Scope and content
Programs for a variety of events at Farmers' Week including general program, concerts, banquets, judging contests, livestock sales, debates, and dramatic contests and American Farm Bureau Federation events.Also, Farm and Home Week pins for 1922 (MU-44), 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1952-1954, and 1959 (18 items). "The Stalin Supporter," an anti-Communist political publication designed to look like the Farm and Home Week newsletter and distributed at Farm and...
Dates:
1914-1954.
Domestic science classes photographs
Collection — Manuscript box 68 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065308144]
Identifier: 4984
Scope and content
Photographs showing classes in various disciplines of home economics, New York City, circa 1920s.
Dates:
(ca. 1920s)
Elizabeth Wiegand papers
Collection
Identifier: 23-18-1242
Abstract
Includes bound volumes of conference progams, speeches, and bulletins; bound and unbound bulletins on household economics and management; correspondence about budgeting, records of adult home management programs; and other papers of Elizabeth Wiegand related to her career on the faculty of the New York State College of Home Economics.
Dates:
1926-1969.
Gladys Godfrey MacKay papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3156
Scope and content
Correspondence relating to Gladys Godfrey MacKay's life, including her time in the Navy as a WAVE and her concerns on various social issues and a 1913 banner once owned by her mother, Hazel Brown Godfrey, class of 1913.
Dates:
1969-2001.
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.
Hilda Greenawalt Way interview
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065430252]
Identifier: 37-5-2725
Scope and content
Interview conducted by Eleanor Randles concerning Way's education in home economics at Cornell, and her subsequent career; transcript and audiocassette.
Dates:
1984.