New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys, 1938-1966.
Collection Number: 21-33-1485

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology surveys, 1938-1966.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-33-1485
Abstract:
Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere.
Creator:
New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Rural Sociology
Quanitities:
172.7 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:

Acces to survey records restricted to the permission of the University Archivist. Original investigator shall have unrestricted access to and use of records.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

New York State College of Agriculture Deptartment of Rural Sociology surveys, #21-33-1485. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection includes schedules, interviewers' notes, correspondence, and other records containing information on individuals, households, farms, neighborhoods, and organizations gathered during the following projects in New York and elsewhere: Farm Security Administration study of non-commercial agriculture, Grundy and Reynolds Counties, Mo., Orange Co., Vt., Beltrami Co., Minn., Oglethorpe and Laurens Counties, Ga., Grayson Co., Va., Mercer Co., W. Va., and Knox Co., Tenn. (1938-42); social participation of farm families, Cortland Co. (1939); rural community organizations, Broome Co. (1939); social status of rural households in low income areas, Otsego, Steuben, and St. Lawrence Counties (1940); families on marginal farmlands, Town of Erin, Chemung Co. (1940); social stratification in a rural community, Spencer, Tioga Co. (1940); and the rural community in wartime, Waterville, Oneida Co. (1944).
Also, studies of community and organizational leadership, Waterville (1946); rural community development, Schuyler Co. (1947, 1957), Richfield Springs, Otsego Co., Van Hornesville, Herkimer Co. (1948, 1958); community voluntary organizations, Odessa Central School District, Schuyler Co. (1948); participation and attitudes of rural young people, Odessa School District (1948); the provision and use of health services in rural New York, Cortland and Otsego Counties (1949-50), 1957-58, 1960), Chautauqua and Livingston Counties (1950-51, 1958-60), Clinton and Ulster Counties (1951-52, 1959-60); farmers' knowledge of, participation in, and and suggestions concerning agricultural programs (1951); social change in a rural community, Brooktondale and Slaterville Springs, Tompkins Co. (1951); personal adjustment of residents in homes for the aged, Ithaca, Tompkins Co., Oxford, Chenango Co., and Red Hook, Dutchess Co. (1951); social change, Marathon, Cortland Co. (1954); dairy farm practice adoption, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville (1956); study of organizations, Odessa School District and Richfield Springs School District (1957-58); attitudes of rural high school students toward occupations, Odessa, Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville, and Trumansburg Central Schools (1958); migration plans of high school seniors, St. Lawrence Co. (1962); social analysis of Southold, Southold Township, Long Island, N.Y. (1964); and a New York State farm labor study (1966).
Restrictions on use:

Private individuals named in the surveys may not be published or otherwise released in such form that any individual mentioned in the records can be identified.
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SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University
United States. Farm Security Administration
Places:
Southold (N.Y.)
Trumansburg (N.Y.)
Odessa (N.Y.)
Marathon (N.Y.)
Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Red Hook (N.Y.)
Chenango County (N.Y.)
Oxford (Chenango County, N.Y.)
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Tompkins County (N.Y.)
Slaterville Springs (N.Y.)
Brooktondale (N.Y.)
Ulster County (N.Y.)
Clinton (N.Y.)
Livingston County (N.Y.)
Chautauqua County (N.Y.)
Herkimer County (N.Y.)
Van Hornesville (N.Y.)
Richfield Springs (N.Y.)
Schuyler County (N.Y.)
Oneida County (N.Y.)
Waterville (N.Y.)
Spencer (N.Y.)
Tioga County (N.Y.)
Chemung County (N.Y.)
St. Lawrence County (N.Y.)
Steuben County (N.Y.)
Otsego County (N.Y.)
Cortland County (N.Y.)
Broome County (N.Y.)
Knox County (Tenn.)
Mercer County (W. Va.)
Grayson County (Va.)
Laurens County (Ga.)
Oglethorpe County (Ga.)
Beltrami County (Minn.)
Orange County (Vt.)
Reynolds County (Mont.)
Grundy County (Mont.)
New York (State)
Subjects:
Sociology, Rural.
Social change.
Rural youth.
Rural poor.
Rural health services.
Rural families.
Rural development.
Rural conditions.
Nursing home patients.
Farmers -- Economic conditions.
Dairying.
Country life.
Community development.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Form and Genre Terms:
Color slides.
Photographs.
Questionnaires.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
Adams, How, Larson, 1966 , N.Y.S. Farm Worker Management Project; Cottrell and Bee, 1938 Marathon (Cortland Co.) Community Study.
1966, 1938
same; also Anderson and Plambeck, 1939 . Social Participation of Family, Cortland Co.
1939
Box 2
same; also Anderson and Plambeck, 1939 . Social Participation of Family, Cortland Co.
Box 3
same; also Anderson and Plambeck, 1939 . Social Participation of Family, Cortland Co.
Box 4
same; also Anderson and Plambeck, 1939 . Social Participation of Family, Cortland Co.
Box 5
same; also Anderson and Plambeck, 1939 . Social Participation of Family, Cortland Co.
Anderson and Hudson, 1940 , Social Status of Rural Households in 3 low income areas of N.Y.S.: Steuben, Otsego, and St. Lawrence Co.
1940
Box 6
Anderson and Hudson, 1940 , Social Status of Rural Households in 3 low income areas of N.Y.S.: Steuben, Otsego, and St. Lawrence Co.
Box 7
Anderson and Hudson, 1940 , Social Status of Rural Households in 3 low income areas of N.Y.S.: Steuben, Otsego, and St. Lawrence Co.
Box 8
Anderson and Grigsby, 1940 , Families on Marginal Farm Lands, Town of Erin, Chemung Co.
1940
Box 9
Cottrell and Kaufman, 1940 , Social Stratification in a rural N.Y. Community. Spencer, Tioga Co.
1940
same; also Anderson and Thomas, 1944 , rural community in wartime, Waterville, Oneida Co.
1944
Box 10
same; also Anderson and Thomas, 1944 , rural community in wartime, Waterville, Oneida Co.
Box 11
same; also Anderson and Thomas, 1944 , rural community in wartime, Waterville, Oneida Co.
Box 12
same; also Anderson and Thomas, 1944 , rural community in wartime, Waterville, Oneida Co.
Box 13
same; also Anderson and Thomas, 1944 , rural community in wartime, Waterville, Oneida Co.
Box 14
same; also Williams and White, 1946 , Community organization leadership, Waterville, Oneida Co.
1946
same; also Anderson, Larson and Halloul, 1951 , Social Change in a N.Y. rural community, Slaterville Springs and Brooktondale, Tompkins Co.
1951
Box 15
same; also Anderson, Larson and Halloul, 1951 , Social Change in a N.Y. rural community, Slaterville Springs and Brooktondale, Tompkins Co.
Box 16
same; also Anderson, Larson and Halloul, 1951 , Social Change in a N.Y. rural community, Slaterville Springs and Brooktondale, Tompkins Co.
Box 17
same; also Anderson, Larson and Halloul, 1951 , Social Change in a N.Y. rural community, Slaterville Springs and Brooktondale, Tompkins Co.
Box 18
same
Box 19
same
Moe, Larson, Cummings, 1951 , N.Y. Farmers knowledge of agricultural programs (schedules have been discarded); Anderson and Longest, 1954 , Social Changes in the Marathon Community, Cortland Co.,
1951, 1954, 1929-1954.
Box 20
Moe, Larson, Cummings, 1951 , N.Y. Farmers knowledge of agricultural programs (schedules have been discarded); Anderson and Longest, 1954 , Social Changes in the Marathon Community, Cortland Co.,
Box 21
Moe, Larson, Cummings, 1951 , N.Y. Farmers knowledge of agricultural programs (schedules have been discarded); Anderson and Longest, 1954 , Social Changes in the Marathon Community, Cortland Co.,
Box 22
same; also Polson and Fosen, 1955 , Dairy Farm Practice Adoption, Towns of Columbia and Warren, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville Communities, Herkimer and Otsego Counties. Polson and Fosen, 1956 , Study of Reference Groups, Town of Columbia and Warren, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville Communities, Herkimer and Otsego Counties.
1955, 1956
same; also Crawford, 1962 , St. Lawrence County High School Seniors' mobility plans.
1962
Box 23
same; also Crawford, 1962 , St. Lawrence County High School Seniors' mobility plans.
Box 24
same; also Crawford, 1962 , St. Lawrence County High School Seniors' mobility plans.
same; also Larson, 1938-1941 , Non-commercial project.
1938-1941
Box 25
same; also Larson, 1938-1941 , Non-commercial project.
Box 26
same; also Larson, 1938-1941 , Non-commercial project.
Box 27
same; also Larson and Capener, 1948 , Odessa organizations; Larson and Young, 1957 , Odessa organizations, Thurston County, Washington, participants in Farm Security Administration project,
1948, 1957, 1938-1941.
Box 28
Larson and Klein, 1948 , Odessa youth.
1948
same; also Larson and Schwartzweller, 1958 , youth attitudes in 4 communities: Trumansburg, Odessa, Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville.
1958
Box 29
same; also Larson and Schwartzweller, 1958 , youth attitudes in 4 communities: Trumansburg, Odessa, Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville.
Box 30
same; also Larson and Schwartzweller, 1958 , youth attitudes in 4 communities: Trumansburg, Odessa, Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville.
Box 31
same; also Larson and Schwartzweller, 1958 , youth attitudes in 4 communities: Trumansburg, Odessa, Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville.
Box 32
same; also Larson, 1947 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
1947
Box 33
same
Box 34
same
Box 35
same
Box 36
same
Box 37
same
Box 38
same
Box 39
same
Box 40
same
Box 41
same
Box 42
same
Box 43
same
Box 44
same
Box 45
same
Box 46
same
Box 47
same
Box 48
same
Box 49
same
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
1957
Box 50
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 51
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 52
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 53
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 54
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 55
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 56
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 57
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 58
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 59
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 60
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 61
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 62
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 63
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 64
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 65
Larson, 1957 , Odessa farmer, homemaker schedules re: practices, participation, and attitudes.
Box 66
Larson and Moe, 1948 , Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville, analyses, reports, codes.
1948
Box 67
Joe Crymes thesis surveys, Richfield Springs and Odessa, 1958 ; information, reports, codes, thesis notes re: studies of Richfield Springs.
1958
Box 68
same; also schedules, Larson and Moe, 1948 , Richfield Springs, Van Hornesville.
1948
Box 69
same
Box 70
same
Box 71
same
Box 72
same
Box 73
same
Box 74
same
Box 75
same
Box 76
same
Box 77
same
Box 78
same
Box 79
same
Box 80
same
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
1958
Box 81
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 82
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 83
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 84
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 85
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 86
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 87
Larson and Moe, Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, 1958 , survey schedule.
Box 88
same; also Larson and Moe, 1948 , Richfield Springs and Van Hornesville, analyses, reports, codes, background information.
1948
Box 89
Southold, Suffolk Co., L.I. land use study, 1964 , Robert Carroll, background material, sample procedure, schedules.
1964
Box 90
Southold surveys completed by respondents
Box 91
Southold surveys completed by respondents
Box 92
Southold surveys completed by respondents
Box 93
same; also matching Southold survey schedules completed by interviewer.
Nursing homes, ca. 1951 , Taietz, interview schedules, Odd Fellows Home, Ithaca; N.Y. State Women's Relief Corp. Home, Oxford, N.Y. Ward Manor, Red Hook, N.Y.
1951
Box 94
Nursing homes, ca. 1951 , Taietz, interview schedules, Odd Fellows Home, Ithaca; N.Y. State Women's Relief Corp. Home, Oxford, N.Y. Ward Manor, Red Hook, N.Y.
Box 95
Nursing homes, ca. 1951 , Taietz, interview schedules, Odd Fellows Home, Ithaca; N.Y. State Women's Relief Corp. Home, Oxford, N.Y. Ward Manor, Red Hook, N.Y.
Box 96
Ensminger, Broome County Communities, 1939 . Interviewers' notes, schedules.
1939
Box 97
Sample design, background information, instruction manuals, field procedures, tabulations, N.Y.S. and Chautauqua Co.
Box 98
same for Clinton, Cortland, Livingston, Oswego.
Box 99
same, Ulster; schedules for Chautauqua Co.,
1950-1951.
Chautauqua Co.,
1950-1951, 1960.
Box 100
Chautauqua Co.,
Box 101
Chautauqua Co.,
Box 102
Chautauqua Co.,
Box 103
Chautauqua Co.,
Box 104
same; Clinton Co.,
1950-1951.
Box 105
same; Clinton Co., 1959-1960 Clinton Co., rural phase
1959-1960
Box 106
same
Box 107
same
Box 108
same; Clinton Co. Urban.
Box 109
same
Box 110
same; Clinton Co. 1960 , rural.
1960
Box 111
Cortland Co., 1949-1950 , rural phase.
1949-1950
Box 112
same; Cortland Co.,
1957-1958.
Box 113
same
Box 114
same
Cortland Co.,
1960.
Box 115
Cortland Co.,
Box 116
Cortland Co.,
Box 117
Pre-test, urban schedules, 1959 ; Livingston,
1959, 1958-1959.
Box 118
same
Box 119
same
Box 120
same; Livingston Co., 1960 , urban phase.
1960
Box 121
same; Oswego Co.,
1949-1950.
Box 122
same; Oswego Co.,
1957-1958.
Box 123
same
Box 124
same
Box 125
same; Oswego Co., 1959-1960 , urban phase.
1959-1960
Box 126
same
Box 127
same
Box 128
same; Ulster Co.,
1951-1952, 1959-1960.
Box 129
same
Box 130
same
Box 131
same; Ulster Co., 1960 , urban phase.
1960
Box 132
same
Box 133
same
Community Value Study - Miriam A. Terry (Dolson)
1956
Box 134
Community I
Box 135
Community II through Community II Organization 4
Box 136
Community II Organization 5 through Community III Organization 3
Box 137
Community III Organization 4 through Community IV Organization 7
Community Value Study - Louis A. Ploch - Odessa
1954
Box 137
B - Di
Box 138
Do - end
St. Lawrence Study 1963 Questionnaires and Raw Data
1963
Box 139
1-64
Box 140
65-129
Box 141
130-194
Box 142
195-210, 501-550
Box 143
551-586, Miscellaneous Documents
Box 144
Miscellaneous Documents
This is Your Life - A Study Made in Groton, N.Y.
1956
Box 145
This is Your Life - A Study Made in Groton, N.Y.
Box 146
This is Your Life - A Study Made in Groton, N.Y.
Box 147
This is Your Life - A Study Made in Groton, N.Y.
Waterloo Study
1963
Box 148
Waterloo Study
Box 149
Waterloo Study
Box 150
Waterloo Study
Dairy Image Study,
1969
Box 151
Dairy Image Study,
Box 152
Dairy Image Study,
Box 153
Agribusiness 0001-0120
Box 154
Agribusiness 0121-0250
Box 155
Agribusiness 2051-2274
Box 156
Agribusiness 2275-2391
Box 157
Misc.
Box 158
Misc.