Mary Burnett Horton Papers Bulk, 1939-1974 1936-1975

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Mary Burnett Horton Papers Bulk, 1939-1974 1936-1975

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Mary Burnett Horton was an authority in home economics and a pioneer in consumer and institutional education in the food and nutrition field. She received a master's degree from NYU in 1946 and worked as a bacteriologist and as head of the consumer education program at Sheffield Farms before being appointed director of the National Dairy's Sealtest Consumer Service where she worked until retiring in 1962. The collection consists of a large number of recipes in the form of books, booklets, brochures, circulars and clippings; food-related publications and printed materials; article drafts, speeches, notes, conference materials, photographs and personal and professional correspondence.

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Mary Burnett Horton was born in Stirling, Scotland, in 1897 and moved to New York City with her family as a child. She graduated from Hunter College, where she trained as a bacteriologist. In 1920 she began working as a laboratory assistant at Sheffield Farms; she became chief bacteriologist in 1932. When Sheffield inaugurated a consumer education program in 1937, she became its director, developing school and public visiting programs at four major milk processing plants in greater ...

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