Maryland Home Economics Association records

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Maryland Home Economics Association records

1913-1998 (majority 1975-1995)

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The Maryland Home Economics Association was founded in 1917 to educate the public on the value of home economics. The organization is now known as the Maryland Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Activities sponsored by the association include courses in home economics and radio shows during the 1930's and 1940's. The collection consists of histories, reports, correspondence, newsletters, manuals, radio scripts, and minutes relating to such subjects as pure food and drug legislation and the Mary Faulkner Scholarship.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6951962

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Richards, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911

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Ellen Swallow was born 3 December 1842 in Dunstable, Massachusetts. She received a B.S. from Vassar College in 1870. She earned another B.S. from M.I.T. in 1873 and, in the same year, an M.A. from Vassar. She studied for a doctorate at M.I.T., but never received it, reportedly because "the heads of the department did not wish a woman to receive the first D.S. in chemistry." In 1875 she married M.I.T. chemistry professor, Robert H. Richards, and devoted the next ten years to advocating for scien...

Amery, Elizabeth.

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Thomas, Edith

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Reitze, Elizabeth

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Maryland Home Economics Association

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Founded in 1917 by Edith Thomas to educate the public concerning the value of home economics. From the guide to the Maryland Home Economics Association records, 1913-1998, majority 1975-1995, (University of Maryland Libraries) ...

Mount, Marie

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