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The Early USDA Extension Service Miscellaneous Materials contain reference materials from the early U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extension services, including publications, glass slides, photographs, and film.

Content Description The Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H contains materials relating to early cooperative extension work, largely compiled by Extension specialists and program leaders over Carper's many years of employment as a clerk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Subject areas include Cooperative Extension history, early history of Extension home economics, the Extension Homemaker's Organization, early history of the National Association of Extension...