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Google: Cornell home economics extension The Cooperative State extension service dates back to 1912 or so, intended to provide farmers (and then their wives) with the best and latest scientific information on farming and home economics. It's based at the land-grant institution for each state (Cornell's the one for NY). Bill Harshaw +++++++++++++++ From: BBReynolds@aol.com Subject: Re: Cornell Bulletin for Homemakers? Date: November 11, 2009 5:30:02 PM EST I make an assumption that "immediate postwar period" refers to World War I (and best wishes to all fellow Veterans of all wars today). I can't imagine that the Cornell library can't give you more background on the <Bulletin for Homemakers> as such publication would have been part and parcel of the homemakers/sanitary/eugenics publications issued by the several Home Economics departments of the land grant colleges (Cornell being the land grant college of New York State, although now-a-days they downplay that, and try to be pure Ivy League). Check the libraries of Rutgers, Ohio State, Michigan State, etc. for matching publications. YMMV Bruce B. Reynolds, Trailing Edge Technologies, Warminster PA ++++++++++++++++ From: stirling.newberry@xigenics.net Subject: Re: Cornell Bulletin for Homemakers? Date: November 11, 2009 4:48:38 PM EST The Cornell Bulletin was intended for women of non-urban origin being home makers either in the rural setting, or those who had moved to industrial cities, for example Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo. Often for women who had not been heads of household previously, for example people in domestic service, share-cropping, rent farming, which was still going on in upstate New York in 1901, or menial labor. General topics included: Home management: Sanitation Nutrition Housekeeping Home Gardening Personal Management: Appearance Personal Grooming and Hygiene Clothes Child Rearing and Family Mangement: Child Psychology and Parenting Activitities Making Clothes Supplemental Income The bulletin exploded in usefulness when it was used by Cooperative Extension Services, 4-H and other organizations to promote education on what were then seen as modern methods of home management, many of which we now take for granted, but were not taught in schools, and were targeted at people helping those who were often below 6th grade education, or who had little family skills from childhood. Thus there are two audiences: the primary readers of the bulletin, who would be the wives of middle class union labor or professional labor - in an era before professional labor commanded huge premiums over ordinary labor - and the secondary audience of people who these women would educate. Thus many of the women in the primary audience had diverse levels of education, from college graduates to primary school only, and they were to become the trendsetters or tastemakers. ++++++++++ From: clarespark@verizon.net Subject: RE: Cornell Bulletin for Homemakers? Date: November 11, 2009 3:38:24 PM EST While I was Cornell in the 1950s, there was a school of home economics, state funded. Later it was changed to the School of Human Ecology or some such nonsense. I would look at the mission statement of the original Home Ec school. It was a prime place for husband shopping, and the classes were absurdly easy, compared to the rigor of competing Cornell State schools. Clare Spark, Ph.D.
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