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...

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The Voices of American Homemakers Collection consists of 171 audiocassette tapes of recorded interviews and five large binders containing typed transcripts of the interviews. Also included is the monograph that resulted from the project, Voices of American Homemakers, published in 1985. This publication contains photographs and abstracts of selected oral histories from the project.