6.7 Linear Feet, 6 ft. 8 in. (5 record cartons, 15 in. each); (1 document case, 5 in. each)
Creator
West Virginia University. Extension Program
Location
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, Extension Service, Publications, Reports, and
Other Material, A&M 5232, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West
Virginia.
Records of the WVU Extension Service. Collection includes instructional booklets on cooking, decorating, and sewing from the
1910s to the 1960s, materials on rural electrification in West Virginia in the 1930s, annual conference programs, and materials
on incomes and family budgets. Also includes materials relating to the Farm Woman's Club in West Virginia, studies of school
children during the 1940s, and studies of cost of living in rural areas during World War II. There are historical sketches
of various county extension programs in the state of West Virginia, most of which describe their establishment and growth.
Titles include:
Textiles -- their care and use;
Why Use Milk;
Personal Hygiene;
Home Canning by the Cold Pack Method;
Milk: Its Importance as Food;
Color in Dress;
Fashion: Its use and abuse;
Home Furnishing;
The Arrangement of Household Furnishings;
Planning the Costume (includes color chart);
Preserves, Relishes, and Pickles;
Experiments in Teaching Food Values;
Play and Recreation;
Plays for the Country Theater;
Use and Preparation of Food
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 09-11
Instructional Booklets
1920-1929
Scope and Contents
Titles include:
Undergarments: simple and suitable types;
Milk Fairies;
The Use and Preparation of Vegetables;
Vegetables and Serving;
Selection, Care and Remodeling of Clothing;
Canning Club Work;
Clothes for the School Girl (1921 and 1924);
Cheese;
Helps for the Home Seamstress;
Planning the Costume;
Improvement of the Interiors of Our Homes;
The Enjoyable Home;
What's What in the House;
Home Furnishings;
Clothing Club Work;
Artistry in Dress (includes color charts);
Purchase and Care of Hosiery;
The Supper Club;
Food, Nutrition and Health;
Baking Club Manual;
Cooking;
Plan of Home Work in Foods for First Year Club Girls;
Well-Planned Meals;
Cooking Club Work;
Food Preparation Club;
Meal Preparation;
Canning Club Work;
House-cleaning made easier;
Operating a home heating plant;
Pictures for the home;
Sandwiches;
The Winter Cook Book
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 12-13
Instructional Booklets
1930-1939
Scope and Contents
Titles include:
Canning, Pickling and Preserving in the home;
Education through organized community activities;
Bringing Joy to the Countryside;
The Pattern Recipe;
Clothing;
Bringing Clothing Up-to-date;
Spot and stain removal;
Making frozen delicacies at home;
4-H Pantry;
Selection of cotton fabrics;
The cooperative family;
Housekeeping made easy;
Keeping up household appearances;
House cleaning;
Standards for working-surface heights and other space unites of the dwelling;
Better lighting for the farm home;
"Let's add an extra bed";
Household Management;
Household closets and storage spaces;
The arrangement of home furnishings for comfort, convenience, and beauty;
Dramatics for farm folks;
Your family's leisure time;
Homemade and remodeled furniture;
Home dyeing with natural dyes
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 14
Instructional Booklets
1940-1949
Scope and Contents
Titles include:
Tools for sewing;
Planning a sewing cabinet;
Pattern alteration;
American rural life and war and post-war planning;
Work clothes for women;
Dresses and Aprons for work in the home;
Sewing machines: cleaning and adjusting;
ABC's of mending;
The Arrangement of home furnishings;
Electric vacuum cleaners;
House cleaning management and methods;
Closets and storage spaces;
Wild Foods
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 15
Instructional Booklets
1950-1969
Scope and Contents
Titles include:
Fun for your family;
Home economics occupations and opportunities in West Virginia;
The family's attitude in a survival shelter;
Family food stockpile for survival;
Extension's job in rural civil defense;
Emergency health care;
Furnishings for shelter living;
Committees;
How to Travel by Train
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 16
Good Living Series
ca. 1940-1960
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 17
Community Score Cards
1919-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 18
Houses for Family Living
1948
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 19
Report of a Survey of WV School Children
1944
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 20
Wartime Cost of Living Materials
1940-1945
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 21
George Loudenslager Baking Demonstrations materials
1935-1942
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 22
Rural Electrification for the Home
1939
Scope and Contents
1 Laboratory Manual
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 23-24
Rural Electrification Council
1949-1974
Scope and Contents
Conference programs
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 25
Cooperative buying materials
1940-1946
Mixed Materials Box: 02 Folder: 26
Rural Arts exhibition materials
1938
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 01
WV Farm Housing Survey
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 02
Farm Women's Clubs Plan of Work
1928
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 03
Farm Women's Clubs Plan of Work
1929
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 04
Farm Women's Club Letter Writing Contest Entries
1952
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 05
Farm Women's Club Feature Story Writing Contest
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 06-10
Farm Women's Club Writing Contest Entries - Class A
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 11-13
Farm Women's Club Writing Contest Entries - Class B
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 14
Farm Women's Club Writing Contest Entries - Class C
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 03a Folder: 15
Farm Women's Club Writing Contest Entries - Class C
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 03b Folder: 1-4
Farm Women's Club Writing Contest Entries - Class D
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 01
Farm Women's Club Feature Articles
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 02
Farm Women's Club Essays
1946
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 03
Farm Women's Club Skits
1950
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 04
"My Day" Writing Contest
1949
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 05
Low Cost Budgets
1932-1941
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 06
Early Farm Women's Club materials
1919-1927
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 07
Home Demonstration Writing Contest
1957
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 08
National Symposium on Home Demonstration Work
1958
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 09
General Community Work materials
1939-1965
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 10
Reading and library materials
1928-1960
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 11
Record of Family Expenditures
1927
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 12
Report of Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics
1944
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 13
Country Life program
1948-1970
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 14
Country church materials
1940-1948
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 15
Early extension records
1914-1950
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 16
Articles and pictures
1914-1950
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 17
Nat. T. Frame material
1932-1975
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 18
Phi Beta Kappa materials
1910-1975
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 19
Clothing Budget material
1929-1932
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 20
Extension Agent Records
1940-1949
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 21
Postwar Planning
1945-1948
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 22
Highway 50 Committee
1960-1962
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 23
Better Homes in America
1920-1939
Mixed Materials Box: 04 Folder: 24
Surveys and Studies
1946-1960
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 01
County Plans of Work
1920
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 02
Club bulletins
1916-1941
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 03
Income projects
1932-1938
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 04
Cost of living materials
1929
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 05
County Extension histories
1914-1939
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 06
Children bulletins
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 05 Folder: 07
Women in the Defense Decade conference
1951
Mixed Materials Box: 05
College of Agriculture and Forestry faculty materials
1981-1986
Scope and Contents
3 bound volumes
Mixed Materials Box: 05
Agricultural economics faculty meeting minutes
1978-05-12
Scope and Contents
1 bound volume
Mixed Materials Box: 05
Appalachia and Community Development books
1972-1978
Scope and Contents
Titles include: Religion in Appalachia; The Challenges of a Community Development Role for a Public University; The Influence
of a Series of Workshops Related to Citizen Participation in Civic Affairs on Anomia, Life Satisfaction, & Locus of Control
Among the Aged Population in the Piedmont Region of North Carolina; Appalachia in the Sixties
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