Records 1890-2000

ArchivalResource

Records 1890-2000

Reports, minutes, planning documents, correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographic albums of the Department of Home Economics (now the School of Family and Consumer Sciences). Includes materials on department head Margaret Ritchie, on the Mary Hall Niccolls Scholarship Awards, and relating to auxiliary organizations such as Phi Upsilon Omicron, Student Home Economics Association, Idaho Home Economics Association, and Idaho Extension Homemakers Council.

20.5 cubic feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 6376063

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Idaho Extension Homemakers Council.

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University of Idaho. School of Family & Consumer Sciences

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Idaho Home Economics Association.

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University of Idaho. Home Economics Association.

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Mary Hall Niccolls Scholarship Awards.

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Phi Upsilon Omicron

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Professional home economics fraternity. From the description of Records, 1950-1975. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 22250468 Home economics society. From the description of Records, 1931-1973. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28412566 ...

School of Family And Consumer Sciences

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The School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Idaho was originally named the Department of Domestic Science. In 1902, the department was created and aligned with the College of Letters and Science. In 1905, the name had been changed to the Department of Domestic Economy. By 1911, the name changed to the Department of Home Economics. From 1915 to 1919, a School of Household Arts and School of Homemaking in the College of Agriculture was set up for rural people and e...

Ritchie, Margaret, 1895-1986

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Professor of home economics and head of department, 1938-1965. From the description of Papers, 1895-1983. (University of Idaho Library). WorldCat record id: 42927111 Margaret Ritchie was born in Bay City, Michigan, June 5, 1895, the daughter of John W. and Helen (White) Ritchie. She spent her early life there, graduating from Eastern High School in 1914. She received a diploma from Skidmore School in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1916, then attended Columbia Uni...