University Archives Photograph Collection, Home Demonstration Work Photographs 1910-1976

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University Archives Photograph Collection, Home Demonstration Work Photographs 1910-1976

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Photographs of people, activities, events, exhibitions, and programs related to home demonstration work in North Carolina from 1910 to 1976. Home demonstration, part of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension service, sought to provide better conditions in farm homes through adult education by demonstration, and North Carolina was one of five Southern states where it originated. It grew to over 65,000 women organized in 2,500 clubs throughout all of North Carolina's 100 counties by the mid-1960s, and in 1995 it became the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences in the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

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Farm and Home Week (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Current, Ruth Augusta, 1901-1967.

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McKimmon, Jane Simpson, 1867-1957

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First home demonstration agent for the state of North Carolina and author of Raleigh, N.C. From the description of Jane Simpson McKimmon papers, 1894-1919 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23743324 Jane Simpson McKimmon was the first home demonstration agent for the state of North Carolina, and an author of Raleigh, N.C. From the guide to the Jane Simpson McKimmon Papers, ., 1894-1919, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Col...

North Carolina State Fair

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North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service

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Organized home demonstration work among rural women in North Carolina started when I. O. Schaub, director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, appointed Jane S. McKimmon State Home Demonstration Agent in 1911. A pioneer in home demonstration work, McKimmon headed the program until 1937. Ruth Current succeeded her and directed the program for three decades afterward. In 1958, Current was named assistant director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extensio...