Collection Scope and Content Note

New York State Federation of Home Bureaus records including minutes, programs, reports, clippings, and photos; Associated Countrywomen of the World files with correspondence and mimeographed items about its conferences; New York State Council of Rural Women file including correspondence and minutes; Extension files concerning organization, purpose, and administration; Home Demonstration work files; Older Rural Youth files; Conference files; Farm and Home Week Files; and Nutrition Institute and Nutrition Committee files including correspondence, reports, programs, lists, photos, and other items, many pertaining to wartime nutrition. Also, press releases, with interfiled correspondence and program material; annual reports 1918-1977, 1958 membership study, and a copy of Lucinda Noble's 1958 master's thesis entitled A Study of Training Needs of Home Demonstration Agents in New York.