Washington County Extension Homemakers Council Records
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Scope and Content Note
The records contain Annual Reports, scrapbooks, minutes, yearbooks, cemetery records, photographs, and other records. Researchers should note that in addition to the photographs in Series 3, most scrapbooks contain several photographs.
Dates
- 1916-1987
Creator
- Washington County Extension Homemakers Council (Ark.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Home Demonstration work in Arkansas began in January, 1912 with an appropriation of $1,500 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The objectives were three-fold: economic, educational, and social advancement. By 1913 home demonstration work in Arkansas had attracted such favorable notice that the state legislature empowered county quorum courts to appropriate additional funds for county home demonstration organizations.
The Washington County Extension Homemakers' Council (Fayetteville, Arkansas) had its beginnings in 1916 when Home Demonstration Agent Harriet B. King, Mrs. C. B. Atkinson, County Judge J.E. Dowell, and Chamber of Commerce Manager Scott Hamilton discussed the possibility of organizing a council of women's clubs. It was formally organized as the Washington County Council of Rural Women's Clubs on December 14, 1926 with twelve local clubs as charter members. In addition to pushing for home demonstration programs, the council played an active role in the County Fair, worked for a full-time county health program, entered yard and garden contests, and sponsored a better homes program. In 1929, the council became a member of the newly created Arkansas Council of Home Demonstration Clubs. In 1943 the Washington County Council of Rural Women's Clubs changed its name to the Washington County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs, and in 1965 it changed its name to the Washington County Extension Homemakers' Council.
Extent
4.5 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Arrangement of the Papers
- Series 1. Administrative Records (Boxes 1-2)
- Series 2. Club Activities (Box 3)
- Series 3. Photographs (Box 4)
Acquisition Information
Ramona Gordon, County Extension Agent-Home Economics Leader of the Washington County Extension Homemakers Council (Fayetteville, Arkansas) donated these records to Special Collections on January 16, 1989.
Processing Information
Processed by Anthony J. Wappel, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in January, 1989.
Creator
- Washington County Extension Homemakers Council (Ark.) (Organization)
Source
- Gordon, Ramona (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Washington County Extension Homemakers Council Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Anthony J. Wappel
- Date
- January 1989
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu