Albany County Home Bureau Clara Barton Unit records, 1941-1957.

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Albany County Home Bureau Clara Barton Unit records, 1941-1957.

Secretary's minutes, schedules of meetings, membership lists, attendance records, treasurer's reports, bills and receipts, reports on work meetings, correspondence of home demonstration agents and members, and mimeographed or printed reports, memoranda, newsletters, and other items, many of which were distributed by the Albany office or by the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8124719

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...

Albany County Home Bureau. Clara Barton Unit.

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