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Margaret Wylie papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23-13-491

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, course outlines, trip reports, questionnaires, memoranda and other papers deriving from Dr. Wylie's professional work in child development and family studies, including twin studies and the Cornell child study clubs; includes some personal correspondence, as with Flora Rose.

Dates

  • 1926-1963.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of Child Development and Family Relationships, Cornell University. Dr. Wylie established the extension program in Family Life.

Margaret Wylie earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan. She arrived at the College of Home Economics in 1925 and for three years she initiated extension institutes and follow-up programs in eight counties in New York State. She left Cornell to complete her Ph.D. in psychology and retuned in 1930 and remained until 1957. She was responsible for developing child study clubs and establishing Cornell's extension program in family life.

Extent

54.2 cubic feet. (54.2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Human Ecology Staff
Date
May 2003
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Physical Storage Information

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

https://rare.library.cornell.edu/
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)

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