Guide to the New York State College of Home Economics. Dept. of Food And Nutrition Records,
1943-1968

Collection Number: 23-14-2485

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date completed:
April 4, 2003
EAD encoding:
J.M. Nicholas, August 2003

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
New York State College of Home Economics. Dept. of Food and Nutrition records, 1943-1968.
Collection Number:
23-14-2485.
Creator:
New York State College of Home Economics. Dept. of Food and Nutrition.
Quantity:
3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Records, minutes, correspondence, plans of work, publications, reports, photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Abstract:
Records and photographs of faculty and graduate students in the Dept. of Food and Nutrition of the College of Home Economics.
Language:
Collection material in English

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State College of Home Economics.
Meter, Mary.
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--Curricula.
New York State College of Home Economics.

Subjects:
4-H clubs--New York (State)
Nutritional science--Study and teaching.
Women college students.
Children--Nutrition.
Home Economics--Study and teaching.
Infants--Nutrition.
Nutrition.
Victory gardens.
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--United States.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
New York State College of Home Economics. Dept. of Food and Nutrition records, #23-14-2485. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SERIES LIST

Series I. Committees/Commissions
Boxes 2, 3
Series II. Correspondence
Boxes 2, 3
Series III. Extension Files
Box 1
Series IV. Plans of Work
Box 1
Series V. Publications
Boxes 2, 3
Series VI. Research Files
Boxes 1, 2
Series VII. Reports
Boxes 1, 3
Series VIII. School of Nutrition Files
Box 1
Series IX. Subject Files
Boxes 1-3
CONTAINER LIST

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