Guide to the Benjamin Andrews collection on home economics, 1879-1958.

Collection Number: 1475

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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Cornell University
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Compiled by:
Sarah Keen
Date completed:
October 2007
EAD encoding:
Sarah Keen, October 2007

© 2007 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Benjamin Andrews collection on home economics, 1879-1958.
Collection Number:
1475
Creator:
Benjamin R.(Benjamin Richard), Andrews b. 1877
Quantity:
1 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence and subject files.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes two letters to Andrews from Louis C. Karpinski (Cornell University Class of 1901); a draft of PIONEERING IN HOME ECONOMICS by Andrews, primarily concerning the development of home economics at Columbia, with a brief section on the College of Home Economics at Cornell University; and twelve photographs of black housing in Missouri around 1940. Publications and other writings on home economics, home economics leaders, domestic science, and extension services authored by the government, universities and individuals.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Cornell University, Class of 1901. Professor of household economics, Columbia University.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes two letters to Andrews from Louis C. Karpinski (Cornell University Class of 1901); a draft of PIONEERING IN HOME ECONOMICS by Andrews, primarily concerning the development of home economics at Columbia, with a brief section on the College of Home Economics at Cornell University; and twelve photographs of black housing in Missouri around 1940. Publications and other writings on home economics, home economics leaders, domestic science, and extension services authored by the government, universities and individuals.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Benjamin R.(Benjamin Richard), Andrews b. 1877.
Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1879-1956.
Columbia University.Teachers College.School of Household Arts.
New York State College of Home Economics.

Subjects:
Afro-Americans--Housing.
Blacks--Missouri.
Home economics--Study and teaching.
Home economics--History

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Benjamin Andrews collection on home economics, #1475. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
RELATED MATERIALS

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences records, #6578.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
circa 1940
Photographs, black housing in Missouri
 Box 1
1951, 1953
Letters from Louis C. Karpinski (Cornell University, Class of 1901)
 Box 1
1958
Pioneering in Home Economics by Benjamin Andrews
Box 1
Lists
 Box 2
1952
History of Home Economics - Letters to Benjamin Andrews
 Box 2
1904-1912
Women's Library
 Box 2
1912-1939
Highlights of Historical Interest of AHEA found in Bulletins
 Box 2
Health-Social Economics
 Box 2
1879, 1905-1913
Education for Women
 Box 2
1910-1918
Association of Teachers of Domestic Subjects-England
 Box 2
1879, 1902-1938
Family Life-Bulletins from Related Organizations
 Box 2
1943-1944
Cuban American Conference on Home Economics
 Box 2
1948-1951
History of Nutrition, Todhunter
 Box 2
1917-1919
National Kitchens and National Health
 Box 2
1918-1920
Community Kitchens
 Box 2
The Philadelphia Cooking School
 Box 2
1898-1910, 1939
Domestic Service History
 Box 2
1908-1916
Household Administration
 Box 2
1917-1921
U.S. Department of Agriculture
 Box 2
1918-1919
University of California
 Box 2
1917-1919
Florida State College
 Box 2
1917-1918
Kansas State
 Box 2
1914-1918
Michigan Agricultural College
 Box 3
1911-1918
University of Minnesota
 Box 3
1920
University of Missouri
 Box 3
1915-1919
Montana State
 Box 3
1919
New York State, Cornell
 Box 3
1914, 1918
North Dakota Agricultural College
 Box 3
1915-1918
Penn State College
 Box 3
1916-1918
University of Tennessee
 Box 3
1919
University of Vermont
 Box 3
1916-1919
University of Wisconsin
 Box 3
Xenophon’s Oeconomicus or The Management of a Farm and Household 445-355 B.C.
 Box 3
1939-1941
World Federation of Education Associations, Home Economics section
 Box 3
Early Home Economics educators
 Box 3
Anna Garlin Spencer
 Box 3
Wilbur O. Atwater
 Box 3
Sarah Louise Arnold
 Box 3
Helen Campbell
 Box 3
Mary Lyon
 Box 3
Advisory Council of the Herald Tribune Home Institute
 Box 3
Anna Barrows
 Box 3
Effie Raitt
 Box 3
1900
The School of Housekeeping
 Box 3
1897
Choice Receipts by Maria Parloa
 Box 3
1916
The Whys of Cooking by Janet McKenzie Hill
 Box 3
Helen Kinne
 Box 3
Annie Godfrey Dewey
 Box 3
Grace H. Dodge
 Box 3
Catherine Beecher
 Box 4
The New England Kitchen
 Box 4
Emma Willard
 Box 4
1912
Mary Wollstonecraft
Box 4
1914-1920
International Committee on the Teaching of Home Economics (AHEA)
Box 4
Edward L. Youmans
 Box 4
Alice Ravenhill
Box 4
News articles of leaders in home economics
 Box 4
1913
Smoot Bill
 Box 4
Count Rumford history
Box 4
2 folders
Paul DeVuyst, international home education
 Box 4
1944
National Organization of High School Home Economics Clubs
 Box 4