North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records 1903-1987, 2010s, 2014-2023 (bulk 1930-1987)

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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Size
14.5 linear feet (27 archival storage boxes, 2 flat boxes); 1 websites
Call number
UA 102.018

The North Carolina State University Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records contain reports, questionnaires, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, press releases, bound volumes, manuscripts, awards, tributes, newsletters, minutes, pamphlets, and labels. A large percentage of the records come from the office of the director.

The records pertain to the activities of the Home Demonstration and Home Economics departments, which are currently known as the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, part of the Cooperative Extension Service in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The records date from 1903, prior to the organization's inception, through 2010s, although the bulk of the files are from 1930 - 1970.

Biographical/historical note

The Family and Consumer Sciences department of North Carolina State University's Cooperative Extension Service was originally known as Home Demonstration, and it evolved out of the efforts of Ira Obed Schaub, Jane S. McKimmon, and others, to develop farm boys' and girls' clubs. The girls' clubs worked under the direction of McKimmon and other agents to sell home-canned tomatoes, which expanded into other canning activities. These clubs eventually became known as 4-H clubs.

In 1909, McKimmon became an instructor at farmer's institutes, where she instructed the girls, along with their parents, on canning as well as what she called other "housewifely arts." By October of 1911, the General Education Board (originally established by the Rockefeller Foundation) had made a sum of $300 available to employ a woman home demonstration agent in each of the southern states. Schaub, the North Carolina State College extention boys' and girls' club agent at the time, hired McKimmon to take this position, which began on November 1, 1911. McKimmon organized the service so that fourteen pioneer counties each hired, for a small salary, a county home demonstration agent who could reach families on a more personal level.

Initially, these agents were hired only for two months during the canning and growing seasons. They soon realized, however, that the job would require much more time, due to the effort needed for organization, gardening, and marketing. After the first year, agents were hired to work for a full year.

At this point, the home demonstration work was still intended mainly for farm girls. However, by the summer of 1912, many mothers began attending canning schools with their daughters and became interested in learning other things as well. By 1913, women's clubs had been organized in each county where there was a home demonstration agent stationed, and by the end of 1914 there were thirty-two counties organized with an enrollment of 1500 members. As the organization kept growing, McKimmon and others made the decision in 1916 to split the women's home demonstration clubs and the girls' 4-H clubs. The first six African American home demonstration agents were appointed in 1922 to work exclusively with African American farm women.

Most of the home demonstration projects in the first few years directly related to commodities that could be sold to increase the family income. Women and girls sold canned goods, eggs, poultry, ham, turnip greens, and fresh vegetables, and by doing so were able to earn a small amount of money. Some of them used that money for labor-saving devices for the home. One popular device was the fireless cooker, which allowed farm women to cook poultry while they were doing other necessary work on the farm. The home demonstration clubs eventually branched out from food-related instruction to include things such as cleaning, increased storage space, and sewing clothing and hats.

By the 1930s, home demonstration clubs had been firmly established all over North Carolina, and during the Great Depression agents concentrated on relief gardens, curb markets, food conservation, and clothing construction. In 1933, 140,000 relief gardens were reported, and about thirty curb markets were accounting for $300,000 annually in sales. By the end of World War II, the home demonstration club program had 55,185 total members in 2175 clubs. Of these, 12,952 members were African American in 587 home demonstration clubs. The program was labeled the most strongly organized educational group in North Carolina by the 1945 Extension Service annual report. That same year, Home Demonstration established the family life relations section. By 1950, home demonstration clubs began health and community improvement drives, and agents were helping members with financial planning and preparation of wills.

The 1960s saw the newly named home economics program, subsidized by the federal government, becoming concerned specifically with the problems of low-income families. Home economists established centers in Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Robeson, Scotland, and Richmond counties. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), which was designed to improve the nutrition of low-income North Carolina families, was established in February 1969. By the late 1970s, special programs were being enacted for the elderly, concerning nutrition and health, consumer education, income management, energy conservation, crime prevention, and intergenerational education. In 1978, home economics became a department at North Carolina State University.

In 1995, the name changed again to the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). The faculty has worked in fields such as nutrition, human development, parenting, aging, housing, health, and family resource management. The department has also worked cooperatively with FCS field agents, also known as county field faculty. Field and department faculty have worked together to develop and implement educational programs for families. In 2006 the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and 4-H Youth Development were combined into one unit under the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.

Name Changes
1911 - 1962
Home Demonstration
1963 - 1994
Home Economics
1995 -
Family and Consumer Sciences
State Leaders
1911 - 1937
Jane S. McKimmon
1937 - 1961
Ruth Current
1963 - 1980
Eloise Cofer
1980 - 1991
Martha Johnson
1991 - 1993
Judith Mock
1993 - 1997
Marilyn Corbin
1998 - 1999
Judith Mock
1999 - 2006
Sandra Zaslow

Scope/content

The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records contain files relating to the activities of the department from 1903 through 1981. Although the records contain files concerning the department before its inception (relating to "father" of extension Seaman Knapp) through the 2010s, the bulk of the files are from 1930 - 1987. Although the title of the records is based on the organization's current name, they therefore include files only from when the organization was called "Home Demonstration" and "Home Economics." The records are arranged into five series. The General Records contain the bulk of the files. This series is followed by Staff Records, Farm and Home Week, National Home Demonstration Week, and Oversized Records. Records have been maintained in the order in which they were found in almost all cases. Folder names have generally been left as they were, although some have been altered for improved clarity. Further, records previously labeled "Historical Information" have been combined with General Records because their contents did not differ significantly. More detailed scope and content notes may be found below at the beginning of each of the separate series.

Use of these materials

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records, UA 102.018, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

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Source of acquisition

Transferred from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences offices.

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Processed by Stephanie Horowitz, 2005

Encoded by Stephanie Horowitz, 2005

Finding aid updated by Gevorg Vardanyan, 2023

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General Records 1903-2010s (UA 102.018 Series 1)
Size: 7.5 linear feet

The General Records series contains the bulk of the records. It contains files pertaining to numerous activities of the Home Demonstration and Home Economics departments. Subjects include the elderly, health and sanitation, food preparation and nutrition, literacy, music programming, recreation, international relations, and poverty. The series also includes a number of forms of publicity (including contests, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets), reports from studies and conferences, and internal and external correspondence. There is a significant amount of information relating to the Master Farm Homemakers' Guild. Files have been arranged alphabetically.

15.25 records storage boxes

Advisory Committee Extension Study 1956-1958, undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Aging, American Issues Forum, Older Americans in Our Society 1975-1976
Box 1, Folder 2
Aging, Extension Program, folder 1 of 2 1976-1980
Box 1, Folder 3
Aging, Extension Program, folder 2 of 2 1976 February 2, undated
Box 1, Folder 4
Aging, North Carolina Governor's Coordinating Council, folder 1 of 2 1964-1969
Box 1, Folder 5
Aging, North Carolina Governor's Coordinating Council, folder 2 of 2 1970-1973, undated
Box 1, Folder 6
Aging, North Carolina State Plan, Title III of Older Americans Act 1966 May
Box 1, Folder 7
Agreements 1928-1958
Box 2, Folder 1
American Home Economics Association Meeting, Reports and Bulletin 1927
Box 2, Folder 2
American Institute of Cooperation 1956
Box 2, Folder 3
Appraisal of Home Demonstration Work, by Jane S. McKimmon undated
Box 2, Folder 4
Articles and Press Releases, folder 1 of 2 1937-1945
Box 2, Folder 5
Articles and Press Releases, folder 2 of 2 1946-1959, undated
Box 2, Folder 6
Associated Country Women of the World 1936-1959
Box 2, Folder 7
Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes 1927 (Accession 2019.0132)
Box 26, Folder 3
Awards of Merit 1929-1944
Box 2, Folder 8
Book on Home Demonstration, Correspondence 1958-1959
Box 2, Folder 9
Cancer, folder 1 of 2 1955-1957
Box 2, Folder 10
Cancer, folder 2 of 2 1955
Box 2, Folder 11
Canning Labels undated
Circular Letters, folder 1 of 3 1937-1954
Box 2, Folder 13
Circular Letters, folder 2 of 3 1955-1957
Box 3, Folder 1
Circular Letters, folder 3 of 3 1958-1961
Box 3, Folder 2
Citations 1956-1958
Box 3, Folder 3
Citizenship, folder 1 of 2 1915, 1948-1956
Box 3, Folder 4
Citizenship, folder 2 of 2 1957-1961
Box 3, Folder 5
Clippings 1934-1955
Box 3, Folder 6
Conferences 1932-1961
Box 3, Folder 7
Consumer Competence 1966-1969
Box 3, Folder 8
Contest, "How the Organization to Which I Belong is Contributing to World Peace," 1955
Box 4, Folder 1
Contest, National Home Demonstration Song Contest 1954-1956
Box 4, Folder 2
Contest, "The Rural Home," 1952
Box 4, Folder 3
Contest, "Twelve Reasons Why I Belong to a Home Demonstration Club," folder 1 of 2 1950-1951
Box 4, Folder 4
Contest, "Twelve Reasons Why I Belong to a Home Demonstration Club," folder 2 of 2 1950
Box 4, Folder 5
Corn Meal and Grits Enrichment Legislation 1952-1955
Box 4, Folder 6
Correspondence, General 1911, 1918-1922, 1930-1940, 1945, 1953
Box 4, Folder 7
Emergency Reports, folder 1 of 2 1933
Box 4, Folder 8
Emergency Reports, folder 2 of 2 1933
Box 4, Folder 9
Epsilon Sigma Phi 1937-1960
Box 4, Folder 10
Farm and Home Development, folder 1 of 2 1953-1960
Box 4, Folder 11
Farm and Home Development, folder 2 of 2 undated
Box 4, Folder 12
Farm Record Book undated
Box 4, Folder 13
Farmers' Market Tours: A Guide for Nutrition Educators 2010s (Accession 2022.0030)
Box 28, Folder 4
Farmers' Market Recipes 2010s (Accession 2022.0030)
Box 28, Folder 5
Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, folder 1 of 4 1922-1945
Box 5, Folder 1
Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, folder 2 of 4 1946-1951
Box 5, Folder 2
Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, folder 3 of 4 1952-1954
Box 5, Folder 3
Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, folder 4 of 4 1955-1961
Box 5, Folder 4
Food Conservation, Marketing, and Handicrafts Reference 1936-1941
Box 5, Folder 5
Foods and Nutrition Reference undated
Box 5, Folder 6
Handbook, North Carolina Organization of Home Demonstration Clubs 1963
Box 6, Folder 2
(HE 335) The North Carolina Collection: Designing the Best House for You 1987 (Accession 2022.0080)

Larger formats of the plans in this publication can be found in flatbox 27, folders 1-4.

Box 28, Folder 1
Health 1940-1960
Box 6, Folder 3
Home Demonstration Agents' Association, folder 1 of 3 1940-1954
Box 6, Folder 4
Home Demonstration Agents' Association, folder 2 of 3 1955-1956
Box 6, Folder 5
Home Demonstration Agents' Association, folder 3 of 3 1957-1961
Box 6, Folder 6
Home Demonstration Pageant 1954
Box 6, Folder 7
Home Demonstration Projects 1925-1939, undated
Box 6, Folder 8
Home Demonstration Work 1911-1936
Box 6, Folder 9
Home Demonstration Work by Counties 1933-1955, undated
Box 6, Folder 10
Home Economics Foundation 1948-1959
Box 7, Folder 1
Home Economics Seminars 1951-1959
Box 7, Folder 2
Homemakers' Hints 1947
Box 7, Folder 3
Job Descriptions, folder 1 of 2 1956-1959, undated
Box 7, Folder 4
Job Descriptions, folder 2 of 2 Circa 1963
Box 7, Folder 5
Joint Health Program, North Carolina Board of Health and Extension Service 1946-1948
Box 7, Folder 6
Knapp, Seaman A. 1903, 1912-1915, 1953
Box 7, Folder 7
Leadership 1933-1954
Box 7, Folder 8
Leadership Contest, A & P Tea Company 1956-1961
Box 7, Folder 9
Legislature 1930-1943
Box 7, Folder 10
Library Project, folder 1 of 3 1936-1940
Box 7, Folder 11
Library Project, folder 2 of 3 1941-1954
Box 7, Folder 12
Library Project, folder 3 of 3 1953-1961
Box 8, Folder 1
Library-Community Project 1959-1961
Box 8, Folder 2
Literacy Program 1958-1960
Box 8, Folder 3
Live at Home Dinner and Broadcast 1929, 1932
Box 8, Folder 4
Low-Income Families, folder 1 of 2 1965-1968
Box 8, Folder 5
Low-Income Families, folder 2 of 2 1962-1972
Box 8, Folder 6
Marketing 1956, 1958
Box 8, Folder 7
Master Farm Family Award 1940-1956
Box 8, Folder 8
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Articles 1928-1930
Box 8, Folder 9
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Correspondence 1930-1952
Box 8, Folder 10
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Dinners and Ceremonies 1929-1930
Box 9, Folder 1
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Financial Reports 1931-1954
Box 9, Folder 2
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Manuscripts 1928, undated
Box 9, Folder 3
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Minutes 1930-1953
Box 9, Folder 4
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Newsletters 1936-1938
Box 9, Folder 5
Master Farm Homemakers' Guild, Worksheets 1928-1929
Box 9, Folder 6
McGrath Report, The Changing Mission of Home Economics 1963, 1968
Box 9, Folder 7
McKimmon, Jane S. 1936-1966, undated

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Box 9, Folder 8
McKimmon, Jane S., Loan Fund 1927-1944
Box 9, Folder 9
McKimmon, Jane S. Portrait circa 1950 (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 5
Music Program, folder 1 of 5 1949-1951, undated
Box 10, Folder 1
Music Program, folder 2 of 5 1952
Box 10, Folder 2
Music Program, folder 3 of 5 1953
Box 10, Folder 3
Music Program, folder 4 of 5 1954
Box 10, Folder 4
Music Program, folder 5 of 5 1955-1961
Box 10, Folder 5
National Appraisal of Home Demonstration Work 1947, undated
Box 10, Folder 6
National Home Demonstration Council, folder 1 of 4 1952
Box 10, Folder 7
National Home Demonstration Council, folder 2 of 4 1952
Box 11, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Council, folder 3 of 4 1955-1956
Box 11, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Council, folder 4 of 4 1957-1960
Box 11, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Study, North Carolina Counties 1957, undated
Box 11, Folder 4
National Home Demonstration Week 1948-1961
Box 11, Folder 5
Neighborhood Leaders, folder 1 of 2 1941-1942
Box 11, Folder 6
Neighborhood Leaders, folder 2 of 2 1943-1946, undated
Box 11, Folder 7
New Careers Program 1968-1969, undated
Box 11, Folder 8
The North Carolina Collection: Designing the Best House for You undated (Accession 2022.0030)
Box 28, Folder 2
Nutrition Committee 1941-1943
Box 11, Folder 9
Nutrition Task Force, North Carolina White House Conference on Aging 1969-1973
Box 12, Folder 1
Organization of Home Demonstration Clubs 1956, 1959-1960
Box 12, Folder 2
Oud, Rieha, Dutch Country Women's Association, North Carolina Visit 1948-1949
Box 12, Folder 3
Pageant, Green 'a' Growin 1954
Box 12, Folder 4
Personal Transportation Issues, Tar Heel Economist 1981 June
Box 12, Folder 5
Post-War Plans 1941-1945
Box 12, Folder 6
Program Development Guide 1956 January
Box 12, Folder 7
Program Planning, folder 1 of 4 1937-1947
Box 12, Folder 8
Program Planning, folder 2 of 4 1948-1949
Box 12, Folder 9
Program Planning, folder 3 of 4 1951-1956
Box 12, Folder 10
Program Planning, folder 4 of 4 1957-1961
Box 13, Folder 1
Publicity 1909-1964
Box 13, Folder 2
Publicity Guide c. 1953
Box 13, Folder 3
Questionnaires 1935-1941, undated
Box 13, Folder 4
Questionnaires 1935-1941, undated
Box 13, Folder 4
Recreation, folder 1 of 2 1945-1950
Box 13, Folder 5
Recreation, folder 2 of 2 1951-1955
Box 13, Folder 6
Reports, Annual 4-H Short Course 1932
Box 13, Folder 7
Reports, General 1926-1951
Box 13, Folder 8
Reports and Pamphlets, folder 1 of 2 1918-1939
Box 13, Folder 9
Reports and Pamphlets, folder 2 of 2 1940-1957, 1964
Box 14, Folder 1
Research 1956-1957
Box 14, Folder 2
Rural Women's Symposium, folder 1 of 2 1959
Box 14, Folder 3
Rural Women's Symposium, folder 2 of 2 1959
Box 14, Folder 4
Rural Women's Symposium Report 1959 August
Box 14, Folder 5
Songbook for Club Meetings, missing cover circa 1940s (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 9
Songbook titled "Everybody's Favorite Community Song Sheet" circa 1930s (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 7
Songbook titled "Patriotic Songs of America" 1928 (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 11
Songbook titled "Twice 55, Community Songs, The Brown Book 1917 (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 13
Songbook titled "Victory Song Book for Soldiers Sailors and Marines" 1942 (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 14
Songbooks titled "Songs for North Carolina 4-H Members" circa 1930s (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 6
Speeches 1932-1954
Box 14, Folder 6
Staff Conferences 1937-1944, 1952-1959
Box 14, Folder 7
Studies, folder 1 of 2 1954
Box 14, Folder 8
Studies, folder 2 of 2 1955-1956
Study of North Carolina Negro Homemakers 1964 September
Box 15, Folder 1
Surveys and Statistics 1936, 1942, 1950, undated
Tributes 1948-1961
Box 15, Folder 3
Turnkey III Home Ownership Program, Charlotte, North Carolina 1970-1971
Box 15, Folder 4
Turnkey III Home Ownership Program, High Point, North Carolina 1970-1971
Box 15, Folder 5
Turnkey III Home Ownership Program, Wilmington, North Carolina 1970-1971
Box 15, Folder 6
Turnkey III Home Ownership Program, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1969-1971
Box 15, Folder 7
Volunteers 2016, undated (Accession 2022.0030)
Box 28, Folder 3
Wake County Home Demonstration Work Study 1947
War Savings Stamps and Bonds 1944-1945
Box 15, Folder 9
When We're Green We Grow [book] by Jane Simpson McKimmon 1945 (Accession 2021.0047)
Box 26, Folder 4
Women in War Work 1942-1946

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Box 15, Folder 10
Workshop Reports 1946-1947, 1956
Box 16, Folder 1
Staff Records 1933-1967 (UA 102.018 Series 2)
Size: 1 linear foot

This series contains correspondence, reports, brochures, and newspaper clippings pertaining to specific employees of Home Demonstration and Home Economics. It also includes records relating to College employees, such as John Caldwell, who did not work specifically for Home Demonstration but had various interactions with the organization. People in this category other than John Caldwell include W.L. Carpenter, D.W. Colvard, William C. Friday, John W. Goodman, C. Brice Ratchford, Ira Obed Schaub, W. Kerr Scott, R.W. Shoffner, Fred Sloan, and David S. Weaver. Of particular interest are those files relating to Ruth Current, who was the state home demonstration leader between 1957 and 1961. Files have been arranged alphabetically.

2 records storage boxes

Agricultural Specialists 1953-1960
Box 16, Folder 2
Albanese, Naomi 1958-1959
Box 16, Folder 3
Anderson, Jean 1953-1955
Box 16, Folder 4
Arant, Anamerle 1948-1950, 1960-1966
Box 16, Folder 5
Caldwell, John T. 1959-1961
Box 16, Folder 6
Carpenter, W.L. 1960-1961
Box 16, Folder 7
Colvard, D.W. 1956-1959
Box 16, Folder 8
Cox, Florence 1948
Box 16, Folder 9
Current, Ruth, folder 1 of 3 1937-1950
Box 16, Folder 10
Current, Ruth, folder 2 of 3 1951-1961
Box 16, Folder 11
Current, Ruth, folder 3 of 3 undated
Box 16, Folder 12
Current, Ruth, Biographical Records 1953-1967
Box 16, Folder 13
Ferguson, Rachel H. 1953-1957, 1965
Box 17, Folder 1
Friday, William C. 1956-1959
Box 17, Folder 2
Goodman, John W. 1954
Box 17, Folder 3
Kennett, Nell 1952-1963
Box 17, Folder 4
Lists of Staff Members 1938-1960
Box 17, Folder 5
Nance, Virginia M. 1956-1958
Box 17, Folder 6
Ratchford, C. Brice 1955-1959
Box 17, Folder 7
Schaub, Ira Obed 1937-1948
Box 17, Folder 8
Scott, W. Kerr 1949-1952
Box 17, Folder 9
Shoffner, R.W. 1950-1963
Box 17, Folder 10
Sloan, Fred 1951
Box 17, Folder 11
Staff Members, North Carolina, Information 1933-1966
Box 17, Folder 12
Stanton, Verna 1957, undated
Box 17, Folder 13
Weaver, David S., folder 1 of 2 1945-1955
Box 17, Folder 14
Weaver, David S., folder 2 of 2 1956-1961
Box 17, Folder 15
Farm and Home Week 1931-1956 (UA 102.018 Series 3)
Size: 0.5 linear feet

The Farm and Home Week series contains newspaper clippings, reports, brochures, and correspondence from Farm and Home Week at North Carolina State College between the years listed above. Files have been arranged chronologically.

6 folders

Farm and Home Week, folder 1 of 6 1931-1936
Box 18, Folder 1
Farm and Home Week, folder 2 of 6 1937-1939

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Box 18, Folder 2
Farm and Home Week, folder 3 of 6 1940-1942

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Box 18, Folder 3
Farm and Home Week, folder 4 of 6 1944-1948
Box 18, Folder 4
Farm and Home Week, folder 5 of 6 1949-1955
Box 18, Folder 5
Farm and Home Week, folder 6 of 6 1956
Box 18, Folder 6
Farm and Home Week - Annual Program 1938-1960
Box 26, Folder 2
Farm and Home Week Song Book undated
Box 26, Folder 1
Songbook titled "Farm and Home Week State College Raleigh NC 1938 Aug. 1-5 (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 8
Songbook titled "Farm and Home Week" circa 1950 (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 10
Songbook "Prepared for Farm and Home Week Programs State College, Raleigh, N.C. circa 1940s (2022.0030)
Box 26, Folder 12
National Home Demonstration Week 1946-1961 (UA 102.018 Series 4)
Size: 3 linear feet

This series contains those records pertaining to National Home Demonstration Week in North Carolina. These records had initially been titled "Scrapbooks," but the contents in general are bound volumes containing questionnaires, newspaper clippings, publicity, and reports on National Home Demonstration Weeks. Where the files contain more specific information, this has been noted in the folder title. For instance, several years had been divided by the records' creator into "white" and "Negro". Files have been arranged chronologically.

6.25 records storage boxes

National Home Demonstration Week, Newspaper Clippings, Northeastern District 1946
Box 18, Folder 7
National Home Demonstration Week, Newspaper Clippings 1946
Box 18, Folder 8
National Home Demonstration Week, Newspaper Clippings, Northwestern District 1946
Box 19, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Week, Reports 1946 May 5-12
Box 19, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Week, Publicity, folder 1 of 2 1947
Box 19, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Week, Publicity, folder 2 of 2 1947
Box 19, Folder 4
National Home Demonstration Week, Reports 1947
Box 19, Folder 5
National Home Demonstration Week, Publicity 1948
Box 19, Folder 6
National Home Demonstration Week, Reports, folder 1 of 2 1948
Box 20, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Week, Reports, folder 2 of 2 1948
Box 20, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Week, Observance 1949
Box 20, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Week, Observance 1950
Box 20, Folder 4
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1951
Box 20, Folder 5
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 1 of 2 1952
Box 20, Folder 6
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 2 of 2 1952
Box 20, Folder 7
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 1 of 3 1953
Box 20, Folder 8
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 2 of 3 1953
Box 21, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 3 of 3 1953
Box 21, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 1 of 3 1954
Box 21, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 2 of 3 1954
Box 21, Folder 4
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 3 of 3 1954
Box 21, Folder 5
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 1 of 2 1955
Box 21, Folder 6
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 2 of 2 1955
Box 22, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1956
Box 22, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Week, Negro, Report 1956

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Box 22, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Week, White, Report, folder 1 of 2 1956
Box 22, Folder 4
National Home Demonstration Week, White, Report, folder 2 of 2 1956
Box 22, Folder 5
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1957
Box 22, Folder 6
National Home Demonstration Week, White, Report, folder 1 of 2 1957
Box 23, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Week, White, Report, folder 2 of 2 1957
Box 23, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Week, Newspaper Articles 1958
Box 23, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 1 of 3 1958
Box 23, Folder 4
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 2 of 3 1958
Box 23, Folder 5
National Home Demonstration Week, Report, folder 3 of 3 1958
Box 23, Folder 6
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1959
Box 24, Folder 1
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1960
Box 24, Folder 2
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1961
Box 24, Folder 3
Oversized Records 1959, undated, 1977-1986 (UA 102.018 Series 5)
Size: 1 linear foot

This series contains files that have been separated from their original locations due to their size.

1 oversized storage box

Canning Labels undated
Flat box 25, Folder 1
Coastal Plains Development Association Home Economics Division Scrapbook 1966-1975 (2022.0030)
Flat box 29
Five Alternate House Styles (Plans) undated (Accession 2022.0030)
Flat box 27, Folder 4
Home Economics Housing: Four Bedroom House Plans 1986 (Accession 2022.0030)

Descriptions of these plans can be found in (HE 335) The North Carolina Collection: Designing the Best House for You in Box 28, Folder 1.

Flat box 27, Folder 4
Home Economics Housing: Three Bedroom House Plans (1 of 2) 1979-1980 (Accession 2022.0030)

Descriptions of these plans can be found in (HE 335) The North Carolina Collection: Designing the Best House for You in Box 28, Folder 1.

Flat box 27, Folder 1
Home Economics Housing: Three Bedroom House Plans (2 of 2) 1979-1980 (Accession 2022.0030)

Descriptions of these plans can be found in (HE 335) The North Carolina Collection: Designing the Best House for You in Box 28, Folder 1.

Flat box 27, Folder 2
Home Economics Housing: Two Bedroom House Plans 1986 (Accession 2022.0030)

Descriptions of these plans can be found in (HE 335) The North Carolina Collection: Designing the Best House for You in Box 28, Folder 1.

Flat box 27, Folder 3
National Home Demonstration Week, Report 1959
Flat box 25, Folder 2
Solar Experimental House Plan 1977 (Accession 2022.0030)
Flat box 27, Folder 4
Web Content September 2014-2023
Size: 1 website

This series is comprised of web sites of North Carolina State University’s Family and Consumer Sciences, captured by the NC State University Libraries since July 2016 using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It web archiving service, with prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to September 2014, which may be less complete and was performed at undetermined intervals.

Department of Youth, Family, and Community Sciences website (http://yfcs.cals.ncsu.edu/) September 2014-2023
Size: 1 website

This is the official website of the Department of Youth, Family, and Community Sciences at NC State University. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured quarterly since July 2016. Also included here are prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to September 2014.

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