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Elizabeth Wiegand papers

 Collection
Identifier: 23-18-1242

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes bound volumes of conference progams, speeches, and bulletins; bound and unbound bulletins on household economics and management; correspondence about budgeting, answered by Helen Canon (1927-1947), Jean Warren (1953-1964), Elizabeth Wiegand (1959-1969), and other faculty members (1948-1952); 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 (now the College of Human Ecology).

Dates

  • 1926-1969.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of household economics and household management, New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University.

Elizabeth Wiegand graduated from Cornell in 1938, worked several years as a home demonstration agent in county extension programs in New York State, and returned to Cornell, receiving her M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1953). Her doctoral dissertation on the use of time by New York State homemakers provided not only descriptive data but the basis for quantifying their work contributions with current data. She was involved in teaching and research at Michigan State University for three years following completion of her Ph.D. Upon her return to Cornell, she moved through the ranks of assistant professor (1957) to professor (1964) as an extension specialist in family economics and home management. She was named professor emerita in 1981.

Extent

5 cubic feet. (5 cubic feet.)

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.

Physical Description

Conference programs, speeches, bulletins, correspondence, and other papers.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, December 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, December 2012
Status
Completed
Date
December 2003
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)