Guide to the Dept. of Household Economics and Management Records,
1900-1981

From its founding until 1969, the department was known as Household Economics and Management; from 1969 to 1977, it was called Consumer Economics and Public Policy; since 1977, it has been the Dept. of Consumer Economics and Housing.

The New York State College of Home Economics is now the New York State College of Human Ecology.

Includes department correspondence, 1928-1960, primarily letters of Helen Canon; also correspondence of Jean Warren, Edna Van Horn, Dorothy Dickens, Hazel Kyrk, Day Monroe, the Family Economics Division and Family Economics-Home Management Division of the American Home Economics Association. Issues of School of Living Bulletins, 1938-1942; and photographs and other material concerning Mabel Rollins, Lucille Williamson and Jean Warren. Also, thirty-five home account study records from a New York State study conducted by Sally Manning, 1957-1958; 4 volume mss. history "Development of the Department of Economics of the Household and Household Management as Recorded in Documents," 1900-1953; 2 volumes "Schedule Forms," 1929-1960; and 2 volumes of abstracts of Ph.D. theses, Dept. of Household Economics and Management, 1938-1966.