University Archives photograph collection. Home demonstration work photographs, 1910-1976 [graphic]

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University Archives photograph collection. Home demonstration work photographs, 1910-1976 [graphic]

Documents people, activities, events, exhibitions, and programs related to Home Demonstration work in North Carolina. Subjects include county agents, specialists, and club members; State Home Demonstration Agents Jane S. McKimmon and Ruth Current; club meetings, facilities, tours, award presentations, demonstrations, and displays; African American participation in Home Demonstration work; national and state Home Economics Association meetings, Farm and Home Week, and the North Carolina State Fair; early curb markets, canning demonstrations, "Milk for Health" campaigns, and World War II scrap drives.

6 albums (549 photographic prints) ; 34 x 31 cm. + 1 box (92 negatives)

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United States. Office of War Information

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North Carolina State University. University Archives.

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North Carolina State University was established in 1887 as the North Carolina College for Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The College opened in 1889 with one building - the current Holladay Hall - six faculty, and courses in the agricultural and mechanical arts, adding a curriculum in applied science in 1893. By the turn of the century the College had grown to some half dozen buildings, about 300 students, and had begun to diversify its curricula. In 1931 the College greatly reworked its curricul...

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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United States. Extension Service

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Lewis F. Norwood, Jr., served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Purpose and Objectives, Task Force to study the Cooperative Extension Service. The Cooperative Extension Service (CES) consisted of a partnership between state land-grant colleges/Universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in cooperation with local governments and people in order to aid and diffuse among the people of the United States useful and practical information as provided for by legislation. Its main functio...

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

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Current, Ruth Augusta, 1901-1967.

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North Carolina State College. Agricultural Extension Service

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North Carolina State College. Visual Aids Department.

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