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Home economics.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 20 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.

Anna Vertrees Love Ackerly papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924027051055]
Identifier: 3847
Scope and content

Clippings, pamphlets, notices, and other materials related to the Associated Country Women of the World; material of the New York State Cooperative Extension Service in Home Economics; minutes, treasurer's reports, and other records of the New York State Federation of Home Bureaus; minutes of the Walkill Home Bureau; and biographical notes concerning Vertrees Ackerly.

Dates: [ca.1920-1970].

Catherine Jane Personius papers

 Collection
Identifier: 23-14-979
Abstract

Includes printed and photocopied material, and other papers relating to Personius' work.

Dates: 1930-1967,-1940-1967 (bulk).

Conference records: "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the Twentieth Century."

 Collection
Identifier: 23-2-2720
Abstract

Correspondence, audiocassettes, publicity, lists, and other administrative records of the conference at Cornell University.

Dates: 1992; Undated

Cornell University Department of Household Economics and Management Research studies

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23-18-1648
Abstract

New York State College of Home Economics Department of Household Economics and Management Research studies

Dates: 1913-1971,-1920-1971 (bulk)

Deans Fellowship in History of Home Economics and Human Nutrition records

 Collection
Identifier: 23-2-3127
Abstract

Includes correspondence, recipient information, reports and publicity pertaining to the Dean's Fellowship, which was established in 1992 by Francille Firbaugh, following the 1991 New York State College of Human Ecology Conference "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the 20th Century."

Dates: 1991-2019.

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.

Family and Consumer Sciences Administrators Study records

 Collection
Identifier: 6704
Abstract

Surveys from a study of careers in Family and Consumer Sciences conducted by E. Audrey Clark. The study results were discussed in an article in the January 2000 edition of the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences.

Dates: 1995-1996.

Homemaking tasks surveys

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23-18-3605
Scope and content

Surveys conducted by Rose Steidl with funding provided by the Hatch Act, Project 454.

Dates: 1967.