New York State College of Human Ecology Centennial records, 1991-2001.
Collection Number: 23-2-3169
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
New York State College of Human Ecology Centennial records, 1991-2001.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-2-3169
Abstract:
Records concerning the year-long College of Human Ecology Centennial Celebration (2000-01)
and the related development program.
Creator:
New York State College of Human Ecology
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs.
Quanitities:
1.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Records concerning the year-long College of Human Ecology Centennial Celebration (2000-01)
and the related development program, including minutes of meetings, memoranda, brochures,
background on Joan Jacobs Brumberg's course "Archival Research: Exploring the History
of Home Economics" and the subsequent exhibition "From Domesticity to Modernity: What
Was Home Economics?" Includes a CD of the exhibition web site and a time capsule created
by Human Ecology students, to be opened in 2025.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
New York State College of Human Ecology Centennial records, #23-2-3169. Division of
Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access to Box 2 restricted until 2025.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Students.
Subjects:
Home economics -- Study and teaching.
Home economics -- Exhibitions.
Human ecology -- History.
Home economics -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Time capsules.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Calendar of Events
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Calendar of events
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May-August 2000 | ||
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Cornell academic year calendar featuring the College of Human Ecology
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Series II. Planning and Development
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Deans and Chairs- meetings and memos
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May 1998-August 1999 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Centennial Task Force
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January 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Working Group memos
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January-July 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Steering Committee: members, meeting minutes, memos
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May 1999-August 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Timeline project: Lynne Byall Benson
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January 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Nomination of Martha Van Rensselaer to National Women's Hall of Fame
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2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Previous Martha Van nominations to the Hall of Fame
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1981, 1995 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
New York State Encyclopedia entry: "Home Economics"
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Cornell University academic year calendar featuring Human Ecology: photo locations,
correspondence, development
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1998-2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Development of Centennial logo and slogan
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December 1999 - July 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Centennial Celebration buttons
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1999-2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Reproduction of "Saving Steps", by MVR
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2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Stationery, cards, invitations, brochures
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Centennial publicity
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June 2000-August 2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Web publicity
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October 2000-April 2001 | ||
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Series III. Centennial Events
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Events overview: Barbecue, library grant, satellite video conferences, Cooperative
Extension events,
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Historians' lunch
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June 2002 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Centennial Weekend: planning and development (schedules, correspondence, invitations,
memos)
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April 2000-March 2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Centennial Weekend: Final plans,
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March 30-31, 2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Centennial Weekend: Keynote speaker, Henry W. Foster, Jr., M.D.
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March 30-31, 2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Proposed Centennial film, (Lucy Jarvis)
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2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
New York City Gala Event,
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April 2001 | ||
| Box 1 | V-5837 |
CHE 110th-President Hunter Rawling's Speech
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2001 | ||
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Series IV. Exhibits
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Martha Van Rensselaer's life before Cornell: exhibit in Kroch, Reunion
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June 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Centennial displays in MVR Hall lobby and in alumni case
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2000-2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Mann Library web site: "Core Historical Literature of Home Economics", used at Emeritus
event
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August 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Mann Library exhibit: history of the College of Home Economics
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October 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Day Hall display
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2000-2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Art exhibits at Kendal and in Kroch: Clara Straight, Virginia True, Dora Erway
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2000-2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
"Common Threads"/"Uncommon Threads" exhibits at Johnson Museum of Art (Textiles and
Apparel, Charlotte Jirousek)
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2001 | ||
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Series V. Centennial Exhibit: "From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?"
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Text for exhibit
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Centennial Exhibit web site: Faculty biographies, marriage course (Lemo Rockwood),
oral biographies (Florence Beck and Doris Mitchell)
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Overview case; scanned photos for all cases
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Home sewing case
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Case 1: Was Home Economics a Profession?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Case 2: What Kind of Research Did Home Economists Do?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Case 3: What Careers Did Home Economics Include?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Case 4: What Was the Impact of the College of Home Economics on a National and International
Level?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Case 5: What Formats and Techniques Did Home Economists Use to Educate the Public?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Case 6: What Role Did Home Economics Play in the National Emergencies of the 20th
Century?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Case 7: How Did Home Economists Influence American Consumer Culture
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Case 8: How Did Home Economics Students See Themselves?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Case 9: What Were Practice Apartments?,
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2002 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Case 10: What Was the Role of Home Economics in the Life of the University?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Case 11: Why the Change to Human Ecology?
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Suffrage and Eleanor Roosevelt
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2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Exhibit banners/sails, flyers, invitations,
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2000-2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Correspondence
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2000-2001 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Timeline - cloth
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1 | ||
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Series VI. HD 455 "Archival Research: Exploring the History of Home Economics" (Joan
Jacobs Brumberg)
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| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Course description, syllabus, development of course
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December 1999-October 2000 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Students who did Kroch exhibit
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2000 | ||
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Scope and Contents
Fall
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| Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Required reading
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2000 | ||
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Scope and Contents
Fall
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| Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Annotated bibliography done by students in HD 455
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2000 | ||
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Scope and Contents
Fall
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| Box 1 | Folder 54 |
Final exhibit critique
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2000 | ||
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Scope and Contents
Fall
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| Box 1 | Folder 55 |
Evaluation form and completed evaluations
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2000 | ||
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Scope and Contents
Fall
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Series VII. History and Background to Centennial Events
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| Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Home Economics exhibit: "History of the College of Home Economics" program, outline
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1991 | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 57 |
Histories of land-grant colleges, Cornell and the College of Human Ecology (including
Martha Van Rensselaer); other articles on home economics and its historical backdrop
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| Box 1 | Folder 58 |
Portraits and photographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 59 |
CHE Mission and Objectives
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| Box 1 | Folder 60 |
CD of exhibition web site
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| Box 1 | Folder 61 |
Responses and recognition that the exhibit and web site have received
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2001 | ||
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Series VIII. Time Capsule
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| Box 2 |
Time Capsule compiled by Human Ecology students who were members of VOICES - includes:
Photograph album, publications, shirts, scrapbook
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2000-2001 | |||
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Access restricted until 2025
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| Manuscript Box 52 |
Posters from various events during the centennial
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