Cornell University Department of Food and Nutrition records, 1927-1970.
Collection Number: 23-14-2485

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University Department of Food and Nutrition records, 1927-1970.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-14-2485
Abstract:
Records and photographs of faculty and graduate students in the Department of Food and Nutrition of the College of Home Economics.
Creator:
New York State College of Home Economics. Department of Food and Nutrition
Carter Meter, Mary.
Quanitities:
3.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

In 1969 the Department of Food and Nutrition and the Department of Institution Management merged to become the Department of Human Nutrition and Food.
In 1974 the Board of Trustees voted to abolish the Department of Human Nutrition and Food in the College of Human Ecology and the Graduate School of Nutrition to establish the Division of Nutritional Sciences, an intercollege unit within the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Human Ecology.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, annual reports, minutes of meetings, plans of work, Purnell and Blackhead-Jones Research material, and subject files concerning World War II. Also photographs (identified) of faculty and graduate students in the Department of Food and Nutrition, taken at Mt. Pleasant Lodge, of the Cornell Outing Club, and a notebook kept by Mary W. Meter.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell University Department of Food and Nutrition records, #23-14-2485. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Cornell University -- : Pictorial Works.
New York State College of Home Economics -- : Faculty.
New York State College of Home Economics -- : Students.
New York State College of Home Economics
New York State College of Home Economics -- : Curricula.
Subjects:
4-H clubs -- New York (State)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- United States.
Victory gardens.
Nutrition.
Infants -- Nutrition.
Home economics -- Study and teaching.
Children -- Nutrition.
Women college students.
Nutritional science -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Committees/Commissions
Box 2 Folder 38
Emergency Food Commission
1943-1944
Box 2 Folder 39
New York State Emergency Food Commission
1944-1945
Box 2 Folder 40
New York State Food Commission
1947
Box 2 Folder 41
Upstate Food Commission
1947-1948
Box 2 Folder 46
Extension Committee on Health and Safety
1944-1945
Box 3 Folder 12
Defense State Nutrition Committee
1940-1942
Box 3 Folder 13
Food and Nutrition Defense Committee
1941-1943
Box 3 Folder 14
Health Committee - War Committee
1942-1943
Box 3 Folder 15
Tompkins County Nutrition Committee
1942
Box 3 Folder 16
Nutrition - War Committee
1942-1943
Box 3 Folder 17
Extension Wartime Council - Defense
1940-1943
Box 3 Folder 18
Home Economics Defense Committee
1941-1943
Box 3 Folder 18
Booklet entitled "Our Job in a World at War," published by the College
Jan. 1942
Box 3 Folder 19
State Nutrition Committee
1942-1943
Box 4
Staff meeting minutes
1970-12-14
Series II. Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 32
Correspondence between Helen Monsch (Head of Dept. of Food and Nutrition) and candidates for regional work in extension
1944-1945
Box 2 Folder 33
Regional Workers - Correspondence, Applications
1942-1943
Box 2 Folder 34
Regional Workers - Correspondence, Trip Reports
1943-1944
Box 2 Folder 35
Regional Workers - Correspondence, Trip Reports
1943-1944
Box 3 Folder 4
Memoranda, Correspondence concerning defense records turned over by Miss Hauck
Fall 1941
Box 3 Folder 5
Defense Correspondence
1940-1942
Box 3 Folder 6
Defense Correspondence
1940-1942
Series III. Extension Files
Extension files
Box 1 Folder 3
Cooperative Extension Narrative Report, Projects V-VII, Home Economics
1965-1967
Box 1 Folder 4
Cooperative Extension Narrative Reports, Projects I-IV
1966-1967
Box 1 Folder 5
Cooperative Extension - Annual Reports, Projects I-IV
1968-1969
Box 1 Folder 6
Cooperative Extension - Annual Reports, Projects V-VII
1968-1969
Box 1 Folder 7
Extension records - Home Demonstration Staff Meeting Minutes, Long Range Planning
1958-1960
Box 1 Folder 8
Extension records - committees, summary of accomplishments
1961-1963
Box 1 Folder 9
Extension records - Memoranda, activity suggestions, committees
1964-1965
Box 1 Folder 10
Extension records - Accomplishments, Memoranda, Newsletter
1966
Box 1 Folder 11
Extension records - Memoranda, Staff Directory, Minutes, Accomplishments
1967
Box 1 Folder 12
Extension records - Base Lines and Projections, Memoranda, Accomplishments
1968-1970
4-H Files
Box 1 Folder 1
4-H correspondence
1957-1962
Box 1 Folder 2
4-H Club - activity suggestions, minutes of meetings
1964-1967
Series IV. Plans of Work
Box 1 Folder 28
Plan of Work
1938
Box 1 Folder 29
Plans of Work
1941-1945
Box 1 Folder 30
Plans of Work
1945-1947
Box 1 Folder 31
Plans of Work
1948-1950
Box 1 Folder 32
Plans of Work
1951-1955
Box 1 Folder 33
Plans of Work
1956-1960
Box 1 Folder 34
Plans of Work
1961-1962
Box 1 Folder 35
Plans of Work
1963-1964
Box 1 Folder 36
Plans of Work
1964-1966
Box 1 Folder 37
Plans of Work
1966-1968
Series V. Publications
Box 2 Folder 42
War Emergency Leaflets - Defense
1942-1943
Box 3 Folder 7
Food Commission list of publications
Box 3 Folder 7
Defense -War Emergency Leaflets
Box 3 Folder 8
Defense - Publications, Reports
1940-1942
Box 3 Folder 9
Defense - Publications, Reports
1940-1942
Box 3 Folder 10
Defense - Publications, Reports
1940-1942
Box 3 Folder 22
Manual for Writers of Theses
1946
Box 3 Folder 23
Senator Desmond article
1942
Box 3 Folder 24
Food and Nutrition Publications
1943
Box 4
"Feeding Babies and Their Families" by Helen Monsch and Marguerite Harper
1943
Scope and Contents
Inscription by Helen Monsch to Jane Barker Pringle
Nutrition Calendar
1973
Creator: Tavis, Susan, 1947-
Creator: Ryan, Carlton
Series VI. Research Files
Box 1 Folder 40
History of Research - Dept. of Food and Nutrition
1930's, 1940's
Box 1 Folder 42
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1946-1948
Box 1 Folder 43
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1946-1948
Box 1 Folder 44
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1944-1945
Box 1 Folder 45
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1944-1945
Box 1 Folder 46
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1943-1944
Box 1 Folder 47
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1942-1943
Box 1 Folder 48
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1940-1942
Box 1 Folder 49
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1939-1940
Box 1 Folder 50
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1936-1938
Box 2 Folder 1
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1927-1930
Box 2 Folder 2
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1930-1932
Box 2 Folder 3
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1932-1934
Box 2 Folder 4
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1934-1935
Box 2 Folder 5
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1935-1936
Box 2 Folder 6
Purnell and Blackhead - Jones Research
1938-1939
Box 2 Folder 7
Research in Child Development, Cornell Nursery School
1937-1938
Box 2 Folder 8
Possible Research Projects
1930's-1940's
Box 2 Folder 13
Dept. Research Policies and Procedures
1930's-1950's
Box 2 Folder 14
Food Dept. - Research, Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
1932-1942
Box 2 Folder 15
Research - Clothing (Cooperative Project with PA State)
1936-1937
Box 2 Folder 16
Research - Family Life
1930-1944
Box 2 Folder 17
Research - Memoranda, Projects, Reports of Studies
1930's-1940's
Box 2 Folder 18
Cooperative Research with Physiology Dept.
1936-1943
Box 2 Folder 19
Committee on Research in Food Processing
1942-1945
Box 2 Folder 20
Committee on Research in Food Processing
1942-1945
Box 2 Folder 21
Cooperative Research with the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
1944-1946
Box 2 Folder 22
Research for Dairyman's League
1945
Box 2 Folder 22
American Dairy Assoc. Research Project
1945
Box 2 Folder 23
Research - Approved
1942-1943
Box 2 Folder 24
Research - suggested projects
1942-1946
Box 2 Folder 25
Frozen Food Research Committee
1945-1946
Box 2 Folder 26
Housing Research Meeting held in Chicago
1944
Box 2 Folder 27
Research for Industry
1943-1945
Box 2 Folder 28
Research - Office of Scientific Research and Development
1942-1943
Box 2 Folder 29
Research - Rural Housing
1942-1946
Box 2 Folder 30
Research for War Production Board
1943
Box 2 Folder 31
Research - The Aviation Corporation - American Central
1943-1947
Series VII. Reports
Annual
Box 1 Folder 13
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports - Extension Program
1932, 1938
Box 1 Folder 14
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports
1943, 1944
Box 1 Folder 14
4-H Club Annual Reports
1942
Box 1 Folder 15
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports
1945-1946
Box 1 Folder 15
4-H Program Reports
1944
Box 1 Folder 16
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports
1946-1948
Box 1 Folder 16
4-H Club Program
1946
Box 1 Folder 17
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports - Extension Program
1948, 1949
Box 1 Folder 18
Food and Nutrition Annual Report - Extension Program
1951
Box 1 Folder 19
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports - Extension Program
1952, 1953
Box 1 Folder 20
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports
1954, 1955
Box 1 Folder 21
Food and Nutrition Annual Report
1956
Box 1 Folder 22
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports
1957, 1958
Box 1 Folder 23
Food and Nutrition Annual Reports
1959, 1960
Defense
Box 3 Folder 11
Defense Reports
1942-1943
Quarterly
Box 1 Folder 24
Food and Nutrition Quarterly Reports
1961-June 1963
Box 1 Folder 25
Food and Nutrition Quarterly Reports
October 1963-June 1965
Box 1 Folder 26
Food and Nutrition Quarterly Reports
June 1965-March 1966
Series VIII. School of Nutrition Files
Box 2 Folder 9
School of Nutrition
1942-1944
Box 2 Folder 10
School of Nutrition
1944-1945
Box 2 Folder 11
School of Nutrition
1945-1946
Box 2 Folder 12
School of Nutrition
1946-1947
Series IX. Subject Files
Box 1 Folder 38-39
History of Institutional Management
Box 1 Folder 41
National Cooperative Project
Box 2 Folder 36
Regional Workers
1944-1945
Box 2 Folder 37
Regional Meeting Extension Specialists
1947-1949
Box 2 Folder 43
Summer Canning
1942
Box 2 Folder 44
Sugar Substitutes
1942
Box 2 Folder 45
Food Preservation
1944-1945
Box 2 Folder 47
Victory Garden Food Preservation School
March 11-13, 1942
Box 2 Folder 48
Well Baby Clinics
1935-1938
Box 3 Folder 1
Canteen Aids for American Red Cross
Box 3 Folder 2
Community Army Suppers and Menus
1941-1942
Box 3 Folder 3
Child Nutrition in Extension
1942-1943
Box 3 Folder 20
Civilian Volunteers Participation
1941-1942
Box 3 Folder 20
Mrs. Pennock's Outlines
Box 3 Folder 21
Conservation
1940's
Box 4
Notebook kept by Mary Meter Carter, Class of 1945, College of Home Economics
1943
Box 4
Course Handouts from Food and Nutrition Course 325
1968
Series X. Photographs
Box 4
Photos of Faculty and Graduate Students in the Dept. of Food and Nutrition, taken at Mt. Pleasant Lodge of the Cornell Outing Club
1946-1947