Voices of American homemakers oral history project audio recordings 1977-1983

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Voices of American homemakers oral history project audio recordings 1977-1983

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv95971

The voices of American homemakers oral history project audio recordings (1977-1983) consist of interviews with 196 women throughout the United States about homemaking in the first half of the twentieth century. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country.

172 audiocassettes

eng,

J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Audio Visual Archives

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National Extension Homemakers Council (U.S.)

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In 1983, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council (NEHC) for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country. The council is a national nonprofit educational organization made up of 30,000 organized groups (or clubs) in forty-four states and two territories, with a membership of approximately 500,000. It is one of the lar...