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Cornell University Department of Food and Nutrition records

 Collection
Identifier: 23-14-2485

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, annual reports, minutes of meetings, plans of work, Purnell and Blackhead-Jones Research material, and subject files concerning World War II. Also photographs (identified) of faculty and graduate students in the Department of Food and Nutrition, taken at Mt. Pleasant Lodge, of the Cornell Outing Club, and a notebook kept by Mary W. Meter.

Dates

  • 1927-1970.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

In 1969 the Department of Food and Nutrition and the Department of Institution Management merged to become the Department of Human Nutrition and Food.

In 1974 the Board of Trustees voted to abolish the Department of Human Nutrition and Food in the College of Human Ecology and the Graduate School of Nutrition to establish the Division of Nutritional Sciences, an intercollege unit within the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology.

Extent

3.2 cubic feet. (3.2 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Records and photographs of faculty and graduate students in the Department of Food and Nutrition of the College of Home Economics.

Physical Description

Records, minutes, correspondence, plans of work, publications, reports, photographs.

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
Date completed:
April 4, 2003
EAD encoding:
J.M. Nicholas, August 2003
Date modified:
RMC Staff, March 2016
Status
Completed
Date
August 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)