THE EXHIBITION


Introduction
Biography
Botany
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
   To the Farmer’s Wife
   1903 Reading-Course
   Letter to M. Van Rensselaer
   Staff of Farmers’ Institute
   Alumni Yearbook
   Home Economics Department
   Lesson for the Farm Home
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel


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THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN

In 1912 Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose were named co-directors of the Department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture. Because of the rapid growth of the department a home economics building was constructed that year. In 1933 the College of Home Economics moved into a new building and the Department of Entomology moved into the old home economics building, renamed Comstock Hall in honor of John Henry and Anna Botsford Comstock; it is presently Cornell’s Computing and Communications Center.


“Home Economics Department, New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University. Four-Year College Course Extension Teaching”

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