Elsie Carper Collection on Extension Service, home economics, and 4-H. [1908-1994]

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Elsie Carper Collection on Extension Service, home economics, and 4-H. [1908-1994]

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The Elsie Carper Collection on Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H comprises 8.75 linear feet of publications, correspondence, newspaper articles, time management studies, reports, questionnaires, meeting programs, awards and exhibit booklets, photographs, intern reports, music, radio spots, kits, and posters gathered by Elsie Carper during her career and volunteer work with the USDA Extension Service. The collection includes materials from 1908 through 1994. It contains first-hand recollections of the origin and philosophy of the Extension Service; lectures commemorating its centennial; the history of home demonstration work, earliest agents and clubs; Extension Homemaker's Organization; and the first 50 years of the National Association of Extension Home Economists (1933-1984).

14 boxes.

National Agricultural Library, NAL

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National Agricultural Library, NAL

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National Agricultural Library (U.S.). Special Collections

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United States. Extension Service

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Scholl, Jan (Jan Fleener)

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Hayes, Kate Simpson, 1856-1945

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