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Cornell University Library
Resources Related to
Family and Consumer Sciences and Home Economics
Archival Collections at the Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections
Guide to the Archives of the American Association
of Family & Consumer Sciences, #6578
http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM06578
Videos of Items from the AAFCS Archives
http://www.aafcs.org/Archives.html
Podcasts from the AAFCS Archives Grand Opening
http://aafcs.podbean.com
Photos from the AAFCS Archives Grand Opening
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aafcs
The records of the American Association of Family & Consumer
Sciences are held by Cornell University Library's Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections in Kroch Library. The records
date from 1899 to the present and document the activities
of the Association.
Located on the 2B level of the Carl A. Kroch Library on the
central Cornell campus, the Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections is open to the public—to students, faculty,
visiting researchers and members of the community. No appointments
are required, but out-of-town researchers interested in using
the collection will want to call in advance, as some portions
of the collection are housed off-site and take one business
day to arrive. Please note that you will need to present photo
identification upon your first visit to the Division. Please
see our Reference Services page (http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/services/services_overview.html)
for more information on conducting research at the Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections houses several
other archival collections related to home economics and human
ecology as detailed in this collections list available at
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/browselists/humec.html.
Additional materials may also be located using the Cornell
University Library online catalog at http://catalog.library.cornell.edu/.
Online Collections
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu
Hosted by Cornell University's Mann Library, this site is
a core electronic collection of books and journals in home
economics and related disciplines beginning in 1850. The titles
and full text of these materials are available, as well as,
bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating
to home economics. This site offers the Journal of Home
Economics / Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences
from 1909-1980 online. This information is free and directly
accessible from your home computer.
Human Ecology Historical Photographs
http://he-photos.library.cornell.edu/
This website provides a database of selected images and information
from the records of the New York State College of Home Economics
at Cornell University. The photographs are organized by general
subjects: Resident Teaching; International, National, State,
and Local Public Relations; All-College Activities; Administration
and Personnel; Departments and Divisions; Buildings and Equipment;
History of the College; and Miscellaneous. Within any particular
general subject category, there are more specific topics,
e.g. “Resident Teaching” includes “Students
and Student Life,” “Homemaking Apartments,”
and "Apartment Babies.” Descriptive information
is provided for each image. Additional photographs may be
found in this collection and in other holdings of the Division
of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
http://chla.library.cornell.edu
Hosted by Cornell University's Mann Library, the Core Historical
Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection
of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth
century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text
materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering,
animal science, crops and their protection, food science,
forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.
Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their
historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles
are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of
the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor.
Online Exhibitions
From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/default.html
Not By Bread Alone: America’s Culinary Heritage
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/default.htm
Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays: Home Economists
in World War I
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/meatlesswheatless/
Harvest of Freedom: The History of Kitchen Gardens
in America
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/kitchengardens/
A Taste for Science: Home Economics Brings Modernity
to the Kitchen
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/scientificcookery/
Also at Cornell University
The Cornell Costume and Textile Collection
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/TXA/cctc.cfm
The department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, (FSAD)
maintains the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, which
includes more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the
eighteenth century to the present, as well as a substantial
collection of ethnographic textiles and costume. The collection
is used for teaching and research. At this website, view highlights
of the collection or search the online catalogue, which is
gradually being expanded.
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