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Home economics -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Andrews collection on home economics

 Collection
Identifier: 1475
Abstract Includes two letters to Andrews from Louis C. Karpinski (Cornell University Class of 1901); a draft of PIONEERING IN HOME ECONOMICS by Andrews, primarily concerning the development of home economics at Columbia, with a brief section on the College of Home Economics at Cornell University; and twelve photographs of black housing in Missouri around 1940. Publications and other writings on home economics, home economics leaders, domestic science, and extension services authored by the...
Dates: 1879-1958.

Joan Jacobs Brumberg papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 23-3-3151
Abstract

Correspondence, articles, lectures, and subject files pertaining to Brumberg's career, her research on the history of home economics and her books: Mission for Life; Fasting Girls: the Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease; The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls; and Kansas Charley: the Story of a Nineteenth Century Boy Murderer.

Dates: 1980-2014.

Margaret Rossiter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-37-4415

New York State College of Human Ecology Centennial records

 Collection
Identifier: 23-2-3169
Abstract

Records concerning the year-long College of Human Ecology Centennial Celebration (2000-01) and the related development program.

Dates: 1991-2001.