Kansas Master Farm Homemaker Guild records, 1928-2003.

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Kansas Master Farm Homemaker Guild records, 1928-2003.

The Kansas Master Farm Homemaker Guild records include conference reports of the Associated County Women of the World, 1959-2001 non-inclusive; Country Women's Council USA handbooks, 2002-2004; new membership class programs, 1979-2003; National Master Class Farmer Homemaker Guild meeting booklets, 1975-2002; president's notebooks containing photographs, membership lists, meeting minutes, and records documenting annual activities and meetings; and written histories dated 1928-1983. The majority of the records pertain to new membership classes and nominating new Master Farm Homemakers.

2 cubic feet (2 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8043466

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Associated Country Women of the World.

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The Associated Country Women of the World group was organized in June 1933 in Stockholm, Sweden. The object of the group is "to promote and maintain friendly and helpful relations between country women and homemaker associations of all nations, to further the common interests of these groups in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, and to encourage the formation of similar organizations." From the description of Records, 1953-1994. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 4...

Kansas Master Farm Homemaker Guild.

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The Kansas Master Farmer organization and Master Farm Homemaker Guild (MFH) were formed in the late 1920s to give public recognition for excellence in farming, homemaking, farm living, and rural citizenship. With the help of the editor and the Extension Department of the land grant colleges, twenty-two states started honoring two to five women from each state. Several state programs dissolved during the Great Depression. In 1940 the Farmer's Wife magazine closed. Senator Arthur Capper then conse...