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extension agents

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt
Scope Note: An educator employed by a county and/or a State cooperative extension service to bring research-based agriculture and quality of life education to local people to help them address farm, home, and community problems at the local level.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H

 Collection
Identifier: MS0056
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...
Dates: 1908-1990

National Association of County Agricultural Agents Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0115
Content Description

The National Association of County Agricultural Agents Records consist of the constitution and by-laws of the NACAA, patents and trade names registrations, distinguished service awards lists, articles of incorporation, photographs, copies of the book History of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents, 1915-1960, and NACAA Educational Foundation applications and records.

Dates: 1921-1992

William Allison Lloyd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0099
Content Description The William Allison Lloyd Papers comprise four volumes. The first three volumes contain more than 60 items, including papers and addresses relating to agricultural extension written between 1913 and 1945. The collection covers the pre-Smith-Lever extension work in the northern and western states. Lloyd addressed the organization of cooperative extension services under the Smith-Lever Act, the development of county agent work in the northern and western states, and the development of the...
Dates: 1913-1946