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Florida State College for Women/Florida State University School of Home Economics Florida Extension Services Collection, 1937-1969, Date acquired: 12/00/2005, bulk 1951-1964

 

Summary

Extent:
0.40 Linear Feet 7 Folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Florida State College for Women/Florida State University School of Home Economics Florida Extension Services Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2005-016

Background

Scope and content:

This small collection documents the history of the Florida extension service program from its beginnings at the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) / Florida State University (FSU) School of Home Economics. The collection includes reference materials about other statewide agricultural extension service agencies and home economics, articles about Florida 4-H Clubs and the history of Florida home demonstration work, and publicity brochures about Florida home demonstration work published by the Florida State Home Demonstration Office at FSU. It is historically significant to researchers studying the cooperative extension movement in Florida and the United States and its relationship to higher education programs.


Biographical / historical:

According to Agnes Ellen Harris, the head of Florida State College for Women (FSCW)'s Department of Home Economics, and Florida's First State and County Home Demonstration Agent, home demonstration work in Florida began during FSCW's 1908-1909 academic term, when she was invited by Mrs. Lena A. Shackelford, president of the Florida State Federation of Women's Clubs and wife of Florida Supreme Court Justice T.M. Shackelford, to give a cooking demonstration in Ocala, Florida. A book of recipes, considered the first home economics work published by FSCW, was printed and distributed at this meeting. The demonstration was so successful that Miss Harris requested a year's leave of absence from FSCW to go to Columbia University, where she prepared herself for extension work. Also during this time, FSCW's President, Dr. Edward Conradi, strongly supported the home demonstration program and was instrumental in establishing the state headquarters for home demonstration work at FSCW.

Acquisition information:
Reference materials, articles, and publicity items were acquired from the Florida State University College of Human Sciences in December 2005
Processing information:

The collection was processed in December 2005 and January 2006

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

To request permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from the archives, please contact Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Researchers must obtain separate permission from the copyright holders of material held within University Archives collections for which the institution does not hold copyright.

Preferred citation:

Florida State College for Women/Florida State University School of Home Economics Florida Extension Services Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2005-016

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA