West Virginia University, Extension Service, Publications, Reports, and Other Material

Access and use

Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Restrictions:

No special access restriction applies.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.

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.

Summary

Extent:
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
Language:
English
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.

Background

Scope and content:

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

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

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

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

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

1 Laboratory Manual

Conference programs

3 bound volumes

1 bound volume

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

Physical location:
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard