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Summary Information
Cornell University
Cooperative Extension records,
Cornell University.Cooperative
Extension.
1915-2004
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59.1 cubic
ft. Printed Materials, Reports,
Photographs, Videotapes Abstract:: Cooperative Extension Administration files
regarding county extension associations; Cornell departments including
Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Science,
Botany, Conservation, Entomology, Food Science, Plant Breeding and Biometry,
Rural Sociology, Communication Arts, and Buildings and Grounds; committees and
special projects; community resource development; project summaries, 1914-1965;
some annual summaries of county farm bureaus and home bureaus. Also,
miscellaneous files on dairy herd improvement, 1919; farm management,
1917-1918; National Board of Farm Organizations, 1919; New York State Dept. of
Health; New York State Grange, 1918-1919; agricultural conservation, 1936; Farm
and Home Week, 1930-1942; farm debt adjustment and debt reconciliation, 1934;
farm forestry program, 1939; Farm Bureau Federation, 1938 and 1940; rural
electrification program, 1936-1942; rural housing, 1946-1947; and World War II
activities. Files of Lincoln Kelsey, primarily relating to Cornell United
Religious work and to the Christian Rural Fellowship movement; radio speech
scripts, 1932-1941; and negotiations about the Bartlett Club, 1947. Also,
Annual Reports (1944-1960); "On the Extension Line" (1968-1992); and
"Perspectives" (1992), and two student papers on Extension written by Lucinda
Noble (1959).
21-24-1975 Language: Collection material in
English Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library
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