Guide to the Conference Records: "Rethinking Women And Home Economics In The Twentieth Century."

Collection Number: 23-2-2720

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Conference records: "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the Twentieth Century."
Collection Number:
23-2-2720
Creator:
New York State College of Human Ecology.
Quantity:
1.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, audiocassettes, publicity, lists, and other administrative records of the conference at Cornell University.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, audiocassettes, publicity, lists, and other administrative records of the conference at Cornell University.


COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, audiocassettes, publicity, lists, and pther administrative records of the conference at Cornell University.

SUBJECTS

Names:
New York State College of Human Ecology.

Subjects:
Home economics.
Women--Social conditions.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Conference records: "Rethinking Women and Home Economics in the Twentieth Century." #23-2-2720. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Panelists/Attendees
Box 1 Folders 1-61
Series II. Arrangements/Publicity
Box 1 Folders 62-76
Box 2 Folders 1-17
Series III. Cassette Tapes
Box 2


CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Allen, Ruth - Commentary and Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
Apple, Rina - University of Wisconsin - "Every Girl a Mother Home Economics and the Ideology of Motherhood, 1890-1950"
Box 1 Folder 2
Babbitt, Kathleen - SUNY Binghamton - "Alphabet Soup and Depression-Era Subsistence: NYS Extension and the New Deal Agencies of the 1930s"
Box 1 Folder 3
Bates, Mercedes - Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 4
Belesco, Warren - University of Maryland, Baltimore County - "Home Economists vs. Alternative Foodways"
Box 1 Folder 5
Brumberg, J.J. - c.v. and correspondence
Box 1 Folder 6
Bryant, Keith - Cornell University - Comments on Horowitz and Robinson Papers
Box 1 Folder 7
Cravens, Hamilton - Iowa State University - Correpondence and Vita
Box 1 Folder 8
Colman, Gould - Cornell Univeristy Archivist
Box 1 Folder 9
Conable, Charlotte W. - Resume and Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 10
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz - SUNY, Stony Brook (facilitator/respondent)
Box 1 Folder 11
Davis, Audrey - Curator, The National Museum of American History
Box 1 Folder 12
Dean Firebaugh Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 13
DeVault, Ileen - ILR, Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 14
Dudden, Faye E. - Union College (facilitator/respondent)
Box 1 Folder 15
East, Marjorie - panelist - correspondence and resume
Box 1 Folder 16
Furness, Betty
Box 1 Folder 17
Geistfeld, Loren - Ohio State University - Vita
Box 1 Folder 18
Gentzler, Yvonne S. - Resume and correspondence
Box 1 Folder 19
Goldsmith, Elizabeth - Invited Scholar - Florida State University
Box 1 Folder 20
Goldstein, Carolyn - University of Delaware - "Part of the Package? : Home Economists in Industry in the Interwar Period"
Box 1 Folder 21
Grant, Julia - Boston - "Modernizing Motherhood: Modernizing Motherhood and the Parent Education Movement, 1915-1940"
Box 1 Folder 22
Haber, Barbara - Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College - "'You and Chocolate Cake': Betty Crocker's Message to Females in the 1950s" and recipes
Box 1 Folder 23
Harris, Carmen V. - Clemson Univeristy - "Grace Under Pressure: The Black Home Economics Agent in South Carolina, 1919-1967"
Box 1 Folder 24
Hopkins, Bernice
Box 1 Folder 25
Horowitz, Daniel - Smith College - "The Cultural Consturction of Spending: Ameican Household Budget Studies in the Early 20th Century"
Box 1 Folder 26
James, Rae Jean - Bio, Correspondece, Resume
Box 1 Folder 27
Kline, Ronald - Cornell University - "Agents of Modernity: Home Economics and Rural Electirfication in the United States, 1925-1950"
Box 1 Folder 28
Knowles, Jane B. - Univeristy of Wisconsin - "Domestic Science and Rural Women in the Midwest, 1900-1920 Two Exampes from the Land Grant Univeristy Community"
Box 1 Folder 29
Khodtedt, Sally Gregory - University of Minnesota (facilitator/respondent)
Box 1 Folder 30
Lane, Ann J. - University of Virginia (facilitator/respondent)
Box 1 Folder 31
Levenstein, Harvey - McMaster University - "Home Economists and Ethnic Food"
Box 1 Folder 32
Low, Florence (commentator) - Bio, correspondence, newspaper article
Box 1 Folder 33
Mapes, Martha - correspondence and c.v.
Box 1 Folder 34
McCray, Jacqueline - University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 35
Meyer, Sibylle & Schulze, Eva - "Technology and Family: A Contribution to the Impact of Gender on Technological Development"
Box 1 Folder 36
Michel, Sonya - "A New Deal for Home Economics"
Box 1 Folder 37
Nerad, Maresi - University of California, Berkeley - "Gender and Status at the University of California at Berkeley: The Case of Home Economics 1918-1954"
Box 1 Folder 38
Newkirk, Gwendolyn - University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Box 1 Folder 39
Nyhart, Lynn - Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison - "Home Economics in the American Hospital, 1900-1930"
Box 1 Folder 40
Past, Lois (Invited Scholar)
Box 1 Folder 41
Reed, Hazel - Bio, Resume, Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 42
Ricciuti, Henry - Commentor on Rima Apple's and Julia Grant's papers
Box 1 Folder 43
Robinson, Lisa - Michigan State University - "Safeguarded by your Refrigerator: Mary Engle Pennington and Industrial Home Economics"
Box 1 Folder 44
Ross, Alice - Hearth Sudios - Vitae and Brouchure
Box 1 Folder 45
Rossiter, Margaret - "Men in Home Economics - A Contradiciton in Terms?"
Box 1 Folder 46
Sicherman, Barbara - Trinity College (facilitator/respondent)
Box 1 Folder 47
Sklar, Kitty - SUNY Binghamton
Box 1 Folder 48
Smith, Ed - "Anna Bostford Comstock: Artist, Author, and Teacher"
Box 1 Folder 49
Stage, Sarah - UC Riverside - "'Home is not in the Kitchen' A New Look at Ellen Richards and the Home Economics Movement"
Box 1 Folder 50
St. Marie, Satening - JC Penny Forum
Box 1 Folder 51
Thomas, Genevieve W.
Box 1 Folder 52
Tomes, Nancy Jane - c.v.
Box 1 Folder 53
Vincent, Alison - "Theoretic Studies of 'Philanthropic' Interests of Women Educators"
Box 1 Folder 54
Vincenti, Virginia (panelist/facilitator)
Box 1 Folder 55
Washington, Maragret - "Home Economics, Industrial Education and the Penn School Challenge, 1863-1930"
Box 1 Folder 56
Weber, Rose Marie - SUNY Albany - c.v. and corespondence
Box 1 Folder 57
Weigly, Emma S.
Box 1 Folder 58
White, Suzanne - FDA - "'One Third Essence of Nothing': Home Economics as Consumer Advocates in the Cornell Bread Controversy, 1948-50"
Box 1 Folder 59
Williams, E. Zabe - University of Wisconsin, Madison - "'Education for Living': The Definitions and Designs of the Lake Placid Conference on Home Economics, 1899-1908"
Box 1 Folder 60
Ziegler, Jerome M. - Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 61
Mailing Lists
Box 1 Folder 62
Home Economists - Possible Conference Participants
Box 1 Folder 63
Attendence Reconrds and Final List of Participants
Box 1 Folder 64
Panel of Home Economists, Speakers, Commentators
Box 1 Folder 65
Returned Contracts
Box 1 Folder 66
October 1990 - May 1991
Request forms and Memos Regarding Room Reservations
Box 1 Folder 67
Budget/Receipts
Box 1 Folder 68
Caterers - Correspondence, Menus
Box 1 Folder 69
Exhibit at Olin
Box 1 Folder 70
Home Economics in Film - An Evening of historical films by and about the Profession - From the National Archieves and others
Box 1 Folder 71
Information on the Statler and Local Motels
Box 1 Folder 72
Offical File
Box 1 Folder 73
Parking
Box 1 Folder 74
Funding - National Endowment for the Humanities and Cornell University
Box 1 Folder 75
Names and Addresses of People requesting copies of papers/tapes
Box 1 Folder 76
New York Council for the Humanities - Correspondence, Funding, Travel, Joan's Final Report
Box 1 Folder 77
Publicity - News Releases, Newspaper Artciles, Mailings
Box 2 Folder 1
January-March, 1991
Correspondence regarding the Wolcott Letters
Box 2 Folder 2
January-March, 1989
Correspondence Regarding the 65th Anniversairy of the College of Human Ecology
Box 2 Folder 3
Correspondence Regarding Possible Material to be Presented at Conference, 1989-1990
Box 2 Folder 4
1989-1991
Dean's Office Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 5
Correpondence with Politicians
Box 2 Folder 6
1991
General Correspondence to Brumberg and Bergstrom
Box 2 Folder 7
June-July, 1990
Responses to Invitations to the Conference
Box 2 Folder 8
1991-92
Responces from participants about the Conference
Box 2 Folder 9
1989-1990
Applications for Interpretive Research (Endowment for the Humanities) and Grants (National Science Foundation)
Box 2 Folder 10
Conference Coordinator
Box 2 Folder 11
External Advisory Group for Conference
Box 2 Folder 12
Antique Home Economics Pamphlets
Box 2 Folder 13
"Pioneers in Home Economics" by Flora Rose, Home Economics Bibliography, and "The Beginnings of Child Development and Family Life Education in the 20th Century" Lawerence Frank, 1961
Box 2 Folder 14
Folder of Information for the conference
Box 2 Folder 15
Blueprints for Agenda for Conference printed at Typographics
Box 2 Folder 16
Prints and Copies of old Photographs
Box 2 Folder 17
1st Session of Conference
Box 2
October 5, 1991 Alumni Aud. 1:20pm
Box 2
October 5, 1991 Alumni Aud. 3:00pm
Box 2
October 5, 1991 Alumni Aud. 4:45pm
Box 2
Inro by Ileen DeVault,
Lynn Nyhart: "Home Economists in the Hospital, 1900-1930,"
Carolyn Goldstein: "Part of the Package: Home Economists in Industry During the Interwar Period," Lois Post: commentary - what is was like to be Betty Crocker
Box 2
Intro by SG Khohlstedt,
Sarah Stage on Ellen Swallow Richards and teh Lake Placid conferences,
Nancy Tomes "Spreading th eGerm Theory"
Box 2
Intro by Maragret Washingtion,
Rose Marie Weber: "Starved for Something to Read: Literacy in the Cornell Reading Course for Farmers' Wives,"
Cramen Harris: "Grace Under Pressure: The African-American Home Economics Agent in South Carolina, 1919-1965,"
comment by Florence Low on papers and on black H.E. agents in Texas in 30s, during WWII and during integration
Box 2
Intro by Ann Lane,
Rima Apple: "Every Girl a Mother: Home Economics and the Ideology of Motherhood, 1890-1950,"
Julia Grant: "Modernizing Mothers: Home Economics and the Parent Eduction Movement,"
Comments: Henry Ricciuti and Lane
Box 2
Hersey
Box 2