North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records 1909-2015 (bulk 1944-2008)

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North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Size
49.85 linear feet (57 boxes, 1 card box, 2 flat boxes, 1 flat folder, 1 legal box, 27 slide boxes, 7 cartons); 485 megabytes; 29 files
Call number
UA 102.050
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The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records contain administrative records of the County Operations office, as well as records from individual county offices. The county offices represented are Hertford, McDowell, Pamlico, Rutherford, and Person. The Alamance County Records contain photographs, publications, and yearbooks from the North Carolina Home Demonstration Club and the Alamance Extension Homemakers Club.The Pamlico County records comprises reports filed by county extension agents, including a record of county agent work from 1922-1935. The McDowell County records contain scrapbooks, photographs, publications, slides, and meeting minutes. The Hertford County records include a history of extension work in the county, reports, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks. The Rutherford County records include photographs of extension events, slides, and a narrative history. The Person County records contain slides featuring presentations and photographs. The materials in the Other Counties series represent all one hundred counties in North Carolina, and include farm census summaries, histories of extension work, agents lists, and publications.

In November of 1907 North Carolina appointed its first white county agent, James A. Butler, for the purpose of educating farmers on productive farming techniques. The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, located at A & M College, hired Neil Alexander Bailey as its first African American agricultural extension agent on November 1, 1910. As a result of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, land-grant universities were authorized to begin cooperative extension work with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Smith-Lever Act made provisions for the use of County Extension agents to educate farmers, provide help in farming, and help with 4-H Clubs and Home Demonstration agents to provide help in running a farm household and provide health information. County and Home Demonstration agents work in cooperation with North Carolina State University and North Carolina A and T.

Biographical/historical note

In November of 1907 North Carolina appointed its first white County Agent for the purpose of educating farmers on productive farming techniques. The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, located at A & M College, hired the first African American Agricultural Extension Agent in November of 1910. As a result of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, land-grant universities were authorized to begin cooperative extension work with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Smith-Lever Act made provisions for the use of County Extension agents to educate farmers, provide help in farming, and help with 4-H Clubs and Home Demonstration agents to provide help in running a farm household and provide health information. County and Home Demonstration agents work in cooperation with North Carolina State University and North Carolina A and T.

Scope/content

The North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records contain administrative records of the County Operations office, as well as records from individual county offices. The county offices represented are Alamance, Hertford, McDowell, Pamlico, Person, and Rutherford. The Alamance County Records contain photographs, publications, and yearbooks from the North Carolina Home Demonstration Club and the Alamance Extension Homemakers Club. The Pamlico County records comprises reports filed by county extension agents, including a record of county agent work from 1922-1935. The McDowell County records contain scrapbooks, photographs, publications, slides, and meeting minutes. The Hertford County records include a history of extension work in the county, reports, photographs, publications, and scrapbooks. The Person County records contain slides featuring presentations and photographs. The Rutherford County records include photographs of extension events, slides, newspaper clippings, and a narrative history. The materials in the Other Counties series represent all one hundred counties in North Carolina, and include farm census summaries, histories of extension work, agents lists, and publications.

Arrangement

This collection is divided into eight principal series: Administrative, Alamance County, Rutherford County, Pamlico County, McDowell County, Hertford County, Other Counties, Person County

Use of these materials

This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.

The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records, UA 102.050, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Source of acquisition

Transferred from North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations.

Processing information

Finding aid updated to reflect additions to the collection by Cate Putirskis, 2009 April; Cathy Dorin-Black, 2011 November, 2012 February, April, September, November; and Todd Kosmerick, 2016 September; collection processed by Ashton Reddish, Carter Claiborne, James Stephens, Katherine Russo, Stacey Minter, Kayla Bridgham, and Trey Kaufman, 2021 July; finding aid updated by Clara Wilson, 2021 August; finding aid updated to reflect additions to the collection by Shima Hosseininasab, 2022 August; Person County series processed by Allison Hall, 2023 December; finding aid updated by Clara Wilson, 2023 December; finding aid updated by Katelyn Cuomo, 2024 February;

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records, UA 102.050, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC

Use of these materials

This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.

The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.