Guide to the University Archives Photograph Collection, Home Demonstration Work Photographs, 1910-1976

Collection Number UA 023.009

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Collection Information
Abstract:

Photographs of people, activities, events, exhibitions, and programs related to home demonstration work in North Carolina from 1910 to 1976.

Home demonstration, part of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension service, sought to provide better conditions in farm homes through adult education by demonstration, and North Carolina was one of five Southern states where it originated. It grew to over 65,000 women organized in 2,500 clubs throughout all of North Carolina's 100 counties by the mid-1960s, and in 1995 it became the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences in the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

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Processed by
Elizabeth Preston and Robert Burton, 2004 December
Slides processed by
Mary von der Heide, 2006 June
Encoded by
Craig Breaden, 2005 October
Revisions
Finding aid updated by Mary von der Heide, 2006 June

Descriptive Summary

Repository

North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center

Creator

North Carolina State University. Agricultural Extension Service

Title

University Archives Photograph Collection, Home Demonstration Work Photographs, 1910-1976

Call Number

UA 023.009

Extent

8 albums (549 photographic prints ; 1009 slides) ; 34 x 31 cm. + 1 box (92 negatives)

Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center Reference Staff.

Language of Material

English

Information for Users

Restrictions to Access

This collection is open for research; access requires at least 24 hours advance notice.
Acquisitions Information

Created by University Archives from various sources.
Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], University Archives Photograph Collection, Home Demonstration Work Photographs, 1910-1976, UA 023.009, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
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Processing Information

Processed by Elizabeth Preston and Robert Burton, 2004 December; slides processed by Mary von der Heide, 2006 June

Encoded by Craig Breaden, 2005 October; Mary von der Heide, 2006 June

Historical Note


Organized home demonstration work among rural women in North Carolina started when I. O. Schaub, director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, appointed Jane S. McKimmon State Home Demonstration Agent in 1911.

A pioneer in home demonstration work, McKimmon headed the program until 1937. Ruth Current succeeded her and directed the program for three decades afterward. In 1958, Current was named assistant director of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service in charge of home economics programs. Both women achieved national recognition for their work.

Home demonstration was part of the Agricultural Extension Service at North Carolina State College, which was conducted in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture. It sought to provide better conditions in farm homes through adult education by demonstration, and North Carolina was one of five Southern states where it originated. It grew from 416 women in 14 counties when it started to over 65,000 women organized in 2,500 clubs throughout all of North Carolina's 100 counties by the mid-1960s. In 1995 it became the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences in the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

Scope and Content Note


Chiefly black-and-white photographic prints, 8 x 10 in. or smaller, documenting the people, activities, events, exhibitions, and programs related to home demonstration work in North Carolina from its beginnings to the mid-1970s. Some photographs were taken by home demonstration agents, professional photographers, and staff photographers from North Carolina State College's Department of Visual Aids, and some were produced by the United States Department of Agriculture's Extension Service and the Office of War Information. Many photographers are not identified.

The collection includes portraits and group portraits of county agents, specialists, and club members; State Home Demonstration Agents Jane S. McKimmon and Ruth Current; views of 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; slides from various activities.

Organization of the Collection


The collection is organized by format: photographic prints, negatives, and slides. Arrangement is by University Archives Photograph Collection subject classification.

Online Catalog Terms

Personal Names

  • Current, Ruth Augusta, 1901-1967.
  • McKimmon, Jane Simpson, 1867-1957.

Corporate Names

  • Farm and Home Week (Raleigh, N.C.).
  • North Carolina State Fair.

Subjects

  • Women -- North Carolina --Societies and clubs.
  • Women -- Arts & crafts -- North Carolina.
  • Women -- Domestic life -- North Carolina.
  • Women -- Clothing -- North Carolina.
  • Agricultural extension work -- North Carolina.
  • Home demonstration work -- North Carolina.
  • African American women -- North Carolina.
  • Home economics.
  • Education.
  • Clubs.
  • Meetings.
  • Cookery.
  • Nutrition.
  • Health.
  • Exhibitions.
  • Markets.
  • Scrap drives.

Genres

  • Photographic prints.
  • Film negatives.
  • Portrait photographs.
  • Group portraits.
  • Publicity photographs.

Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Negatives
    UA 023.009.001
    Includes both negatives corresponding to various photographic prints in the collection and some negatives without corresponding prints.

    		 [UA 023.009 Box 1]
  • Proofs
    UA 023.009.002     		[UA 023.009 Box 1]
  • People
    UA 023.009.010 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 1]
  • Ruth Current and Jane S. McKimmon
    UA 023.009.011
    Includes photographs by Jay Seymour Studios (New York, N.Y.) of Jane S. McKimmon posing with her successor Ruth Current, Academy Award winning actress Jane Darwell, and others while in New York for the radio dramatization of her life story, "When We're Green We Grow," on NBC's "Cavalcade of America.

    [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 1]
  • Home Demonstration clubs. General
    UA 023.009.020 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 1]
  • Club members
    UA 023.009.021 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 1]
  • Club meetings
    UA 023.009.022 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 2]
  • Club facilities
    UA 023.009.023 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 2]
  • Tours
    UA 023.009.024 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 2]
  • African Americans
    UA 023.009.025
    Includes portrait of Dazelle Foster Lowe, the first African American Home Demonstration agent in North Carolina

    [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 2]
  • Music
    UA 023.009.026 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 2]
  • Education
    UA 023.009.027 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 2]
  • Events. General
    UA 023.009.030 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 3]
  • National and state meetings
    UA 023.009.031
    Includes photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt during her appearance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953 to speak at a conference.

    [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 3]
  • Farm and Home Week
    UA 023.009.032 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 3]
  • Curb markets
    UA 023.009.033 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 3]
  • World War II (salvage and scrap drives)
    UA 023.009.034
    Three series of photographs produced by the United States Office of War Information probably used by Home Demonstration agents to illustrate how club members could contribute to the war effort by salvaging fats and collecting tin cans and discarded nylon stockings.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 3]
  • Food. General
    UA 023.009.040 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 4]
  • Food. Exhibitions and displays
    UA 023.009.041 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 4]
  • Food. Demonstrations and programs
    UA 023.009.042 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 4]
  • Nutrition and diet
    UA 023.009.043 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 4]
  • Milk campaigns
    UA 023.009.044
    Promotional photographs, most probably produced by the United States Department of Agriculture in the 1920s, promoting the regular consumption of milk and the use of milk as a food, especially for children. Includes a portrait of Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson drinking a bottle of milk.

    [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Health and safety. General
    UA 023.009.050 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Health and safety. Exhibitions and displays
    UA 023.009.051 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Health and safety. Demonstrations and programs
    UA 023.009.052 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Textiles and clothing. General
    UA 023.009.060 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Textiles and clothing. Exhibitions and displays
    UA 023.009.061 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Textiles and clothing. Demonstrations and programs
    UA 023.009.062 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 5]
  • Housing and furnishings. General
    UA 023.009.070
    Subjects include home improvement, furnishings, gardens, and handicraft.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 6]
  • Housing and furnishings. Exhibitions and displays
    UA 023.009.071 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 6]
  • Housing and furnishings. Demonstrations and programs
    UA 023.009.072 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 6]
  • Home and family. General
    UA 023.009.080
    Subjects include home management (economics), etiquette, housework, and domestic life.

    [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 6]
  • Home and family. Exhibitions and displays
    UA 023.009.081 [Online Content]

    		[UA 023.009 Album 6]
  • Home and family. Demonstrations and programs
    UA 023.009.082     		[UA 023.009 Album 6]
  • Home Demonstration work. General, ca. 1940s, 1970s
    UA 023.009.000
    45 slides
    Slides of home demonstration work.

    		[UA 023.009 Album 7]
  • Home Demonstration clubs. General, 1952 - 1969
    UA 023.009.020
    40 slides
    Slides related to activities of Home Demonstration clubs in several North Caroina counties.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 7]
  • Home Demonstration work. Events, ca. 1953
    UA 023.009.030
    142 sildes
    Slides showing events sponsored by Home Demonstration. The first set of slides are from a reception in honor of Governor William Kerr Scott, including several slides of Governor Scott and his wife (43 slides). The second set of slides depict a talent show, in which women display skills they have learned (99 slides).

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 7]
  • Home Demonstration work. Food. General, 1950 - 1970 (bulk 1967, 1970)
    UA 023.009.040
    15 slides     		[UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. Food. Demonstrations, 1950s
    UA 023.009.042
    9 slides     		[UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. Health and Safety. General, 1970
    UA 023.009.050
    5 slides     		[UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. Textiles and clothing. General, 1970
    UA 023.009.060
    1 slide     		[UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstation work. Housing and furnishings. Exhibitions, 1965
    UA 023.009.071
    1 slide     		[UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. Housing and furnishings. Demonstrations, 1965
    UA 023.009.072
    5 slides     		[UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. Home and family. General, 1960s (bulk 1967)
    UA 023.009.080
    176 slides
    Includes 133 slides from a home and family slide show.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. National and state meetings
    UA 023.009.031
    95 slides
    Slides from State Week in 1953.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 8]
  • Home Demonstration work. People, 1949 - 1967 (bulk 1967)
    UA 023.009.010
    25 slides     		[UA 023.009 Album 7]
  • Home Demonstration clubs. Music, 1954, 1970
    UA 023.009.026
    32 slides
    Contains mostly slides of the Catawba Music Workshop and Music Training School in 1954.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 7]
  • Home Demonstration work. Slide presentation on history of Extension Homemakers, 1920s-1980
    UA 023.009.090
    369 slides
    A collection of slides that may have been gathered for the Extension Homemakers 60th Anniversary and includes highlights of Dr. Eloise Cofer's term.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 9]
  • Home Demonstration clubs. Tours
    UA 023.009.024
    59 slides
    Slides from the Associated Country Women of the World meeting in Toronto, Canada in 1953. At the beginning of the series are two typed sheets describing the slides.

    		 [UA 023.009 Album 7]