Guide to the Elizabeth Wiegand Papers,
1926-1969

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.

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).