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

Collection Number: 23-18-1789

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date completed:
1982
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, June 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Dept. of Household Economics and Management records; 1900-1981.
Collection Number:
23-18-1789
Creator:
New York State College of Home Economics. Dept. of Household Economics and Management.
Quantity:
2.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, bulletins, photographs, manuscripts, dissertation abstracts, and other documents.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

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.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State College of Home Economics. Dept. of Household Economics and Management.
Canon, Helen, b. 1888.
Dickins, Dorothy.
Kyrk, Hazel, 1886-1957.
Manning, Sally.
Monroe, Day, b. 1888.
Rollins, Mabel.
Van Horn, Edna.
Warren, Jean.
Williamson, Lucille.
American Home Economics Association. Family Economics Division.
American Home Economics Association. Family Economics-Home Management Division.

Titles:
School of living.

Subjects:
Domestic education.
Home economics--Study and teaching.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Dept. of Household Economics and Management records, #23-18-1789. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Correspondence
Helen Canon
 Box 1
Jean Warren
 Box 1
Edna Van Horn
 Box 1
Dorothy Dickens
 Box 1
Hazel Kyrk
 Box 1
American Home Economics Assoc., Family Economics Division
 Box 1
American Home Economics Assoc., Family Economics - Home Management Division
 Box 1
Day Monroe
 Box 1
1938-1942
School of Living Bulletins and Newsletter
Box 1
1981
Photographs and material concerning Mabel Rollins, Lucille Williamson, and Jean Warren
 Box 1
Ralph Borsodi, Flight from the City, The Distribution Age, This Ugly Civilization, Inflation is Coming.
 Box 1
1900-1953
History of the development of the department as recorded in documents.
 Box 2
1929-1960
Forms: Schedule Forms
 Box 2
1900-1966, 1938-1953, 1954-1966
Abstracts of dissertations
 Box 2
1957-1958
Home account books (35 items)
 Box 3