Ethel Bushnell Waring papers, [ca. 1917-1965].

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Ethel Bushnell Waring papers, [ca. 1917-1965].

Correspondence, research reports, films, voluminous nursery school records, and other materials constituting a history of the Department of Child Development and Family Relationships from its beginning as courses in child guidance in the 1924 summer school to becoming an independent department. Also, one volume with typescript history of the department, student papers for Mrs. Waring, and lessons for Christian agricultural missions in China, 1942.

87 linear ft.

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Cornell University Library

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New York State College of Home Economics

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Home Economics began as part of the Extension Service in 1900 with the arrival of Martha Van Rensselaer and the establishment of the Farmers' Wives Reading Course. In 1903-1904 Martha Van Rensselaer and Anna Botsford Comstock taught three courses within the College of Agriculture at Cornell University, relating to home and family life. In 1907 the Department of Home Economics was established at Cornell, with Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose as its first instructors. In 1911 the two women bec...

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Waring, Ethel Bushnell, 1887-1972

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Professor of child development, Cornell University. From the description of Papers, 1920s-1950s. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28413952 Professor of home economics, Cornell University. In 1927 Ethel Waring came to Cornell as professor of home economics in what was then the Department of Family Life. In 1945 the name was changed to the Department of Child Development and Family Relationships. This department is now called Human Develop...