Home economics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Foods, Fashions, and Furnishings Trip Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0092
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the experience of eight Queens College students and their Foods professor, Dr. Helen Volkman, on an educational tour to Europe during the summer of 1973. The six week tour, titled "Foods, Fashions, and Furnishings," was sponsored by Scholastic International. The collection includes photographs, printed ephemera, memorabilia, and personal materials documenting the trip. Some materials relate to classes taken by the students at Queens College as part of the Home...
Dates:
1967 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1973
Home Economics Department Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0125
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of the Home Econonomics Department at Queens College. It contains files of the Home Economics Alumni Association (circa 1950s), including including newsletters, membership information, administrative materials, and notices for programs (box 1); materials documenting departmental activities arranged chronologically from the 1940s to the 1990s, such as clippings, invitations to dinners, photographs, and brochures (box 2); and one file on the Home Economics...
Dates:
1921 - 1997; Majority of material found in 1940s-1980s
