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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Cooperative Extension Administration files regarding county extension associations; Cornell departments including Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Science, Botany, Conservation, Entomology, Food Science, Plant Breeding and Biometry, Rural Sociology, Communication Arts, and Buildings and Grounds; committees and special projects; community resource development; project summaries, 1914-1965; some annual summaries of county farm bureaus and home bureaus. Also, miscellaneous files on dairy herd improvement, 1919; farm management, 1917-1918; National Board of Farm Organizations, 1919; New York State Dept. of Health; New York State Grange, 1918-1919; agricultural conservation, 1936; Farm and Home Week, 1930-1942; farm debt adjustment and debt reconciliation, 1934; farm forestry program, 1939; Farm Bureau Federation, 1938 and 1940; rural electrification program, 1936-1942; rural housing, 1946-1947; and World War II activities. Files of Lincoln Kelsey, primarily relating to Cornell United Religious work and to the Christian Rural Fellowship movement; radio speech scripts, 1932-1941; and negotiations about the Bartlett Club, 1947. Also, Annual Reports (1944-1960); "On the Extension Line" (1968-1992); and "Perspectives" (1992), and two student papers on Extension written by Lucinda Noble (1959).
Financial records regarding the publication of the Bulletin and Experiment Station Memoir, published by Cooperative Extension for the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Ithaca. Includes material on Hurricane Agnes and the Flood of 1972; Extension Faculty Resources material; and records relating to the New York State Association of Extension Home Economists, and the American Home Economics Association.
Eleven cards, 5/17/1915-8/17/1927, published by Cooperative Agricultural Extension Work in cooperation with the New York State Food Supply Commission. These cards contain helpful information regarding preparation and preservation of foods.
Includes publications and videotapes of various extension programs.
Dates
- 1915-2015.
Creator
- Cornell University. Cooperative Extension (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
68.7 cubic feet. (68.7 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Cooperative Extension Administration files regarding county extension associations; Cornell departments including Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Science, Botany, Conservation, Entomology, Food Science, Plant Breeding and Biometry, Rural Sociology, Communication Arts, and Buildings and Grounds; committees and special projects; community resource development; project summaries, 1914-1965; some annual summaries of county farm bureaus and home bureaus. Also, miscellaneous files on dairy herd improvement, 1919; farm management, 1917-1918; National Board of Farm Organizations, 1919; New York State Dept. of Health; New York State Grange, 1918-1919; agricultural conservation, 1936; Farm and Home Week, 1930-1942; farm debt adjustment and debt reconciliation, 1934; farm forestry program, 1939; Farm Bureau Federation, 1938 and 1940; rural electrification program, 1936-1942; rural housing, 1946-1947; and World War II activities. Files of Lincoln Kelsey, primarily relating to Cornell United Religious work and to the Christian Rural Fellowship movement; radio speech scripts, 1932-1941; and negotiations about the Bartlett Club, 1947. Also, Annual Reports (1944-1960); "On the Extension Line" (1968-1992); and "Perspectives" (1992), and two student papers on Extension written by Lucinda Noble (1959).
SERIES LIST
Series I. Subject Files
Series II. Awards and Biographical Material
Series III. Publications Cornell Publications External Publications Papers, Articles and Flyers Cooperative Extension Notes Discussion Papers On the Extension Line (OTEL) Perspectives
Series IV. Initiatives, Projects, Plans, Reports, Community Resource Development Narrative Reports
Series V. DVDs, Videotapes and Audiotapes
Series VI. Conferences, Inservice Programs, Resource Manuals
Series VII. Correspondence
Series VIII. Associations (County, State, National)- Historical Material
Series IX. Photographs and Slides
Series X. Financial Records and Compliance Reviews Fiscal Year Plan of Work
Series XI. Committees, Councils, Programs Advisory Council Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) East Harlem Nutrition Education Program Extension Service Summer School Program Extension Study Committee National Extension Homemakers Council Potato Committee Resilient Communities Program 4-H Various other Committees and Programs
Physical Description
Printed Materials, Reports, Photographs, Videotapes
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
- Compiled by:
- Lindsay Reul
- Date last modified:
- May 2008
- EAD encoding:
- Lindsay Reul, May 2006RMC Staff, May 2008 Daniel W. Young, April 2010
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2018
General
Additional material and digital versions can be found online here: http://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/1440
- Box 90
- Agricultural conservation -- New York (State)
- Agricultural extension work -- New York (State)
- Agriculture -- New York (State) -- Finance.
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- American Home Economics Association
- Audiotapes.
- Christian Rural Fellowship
- Cornell United Religious Work
- Cornell University. Department of Plant Breeding
- Dairy cattle -- New York (State) -- Breeding.
- Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (U.S.)
- Forestry projects -- New York (State)
- Home demonstration work -- United States.
- Home economics extension work -- United States.
- Housing, Rural -- New York (State)
- Hurricane Agnes, 1972.
- Kelsey, Lincoln David, 1894-
- National Extension Homemakers Council (U.S.)
- New York (State). Department of Health
- New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
- New York State Association of Extension Home Economists
- New York State College of Agriculture -- : Buildings.
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Economics
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Engineering
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agronomy
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Animal Science
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Botany
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Communication Arts
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Conservation
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Entomology
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Food Science
- New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Social Organization
- On the Extension line.
- Perspectives.
- Photographs.
- Rural development projects -- New York (State)
- Rural electrification -- New York (State)
- Rural extension -- New York (State)
- Videotapes.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Lindsay Reul
- Date
- May 2006
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu