Searcy County Extension Homemakers Clubs Collection
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Scope and Content Note
The collection contains mostly annual narrative and statistical reports of the Searcy County Extension and Home Demonstration agents and workers; plan of work and progress reports; correspondence; Extension Council meeting programs, copies of the Secretary's Record Book for Home Demonstration Clubs of South Mountain, Arkansas, and Leslie, Arkansas, with the Constitution, By-Laws, names of the officers and leaders, and the minutes of the meetings; yearbooks; and other records pertaining to the activities of the Searcy County Home Demonstration Clubs. It also contains records of the Flintrock Strawberry Growers Association, Marshall, Arkansas, including correspondence, statistics, brochures, pamphlets, and other printed material; scrapbooks and photocopies of scrapbooks of Pine Bluff, Marshall, Silver Hill, and Gilbert Home Demonstration Clubs and Searcy County Council. These scrapbooks contain primarily newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, greeting cards, handwritten notes, programs of various events, minutes of meetings, newsletters, photographs, and memorabilia.
Dates
- ca 1911-1989
Creator
- Searcy County Extension Homemakers Clubs (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
The first cooperative effort for carrying on Extension work in Searcy County was made on October 4, 1910 but it was not until 1917 when Mrs. Mattie B. Watkins became the first Home Demonstration Agent in Searcy County. The main mission of the early Extension Homemakers Clubs was to reform agriculture and improve the rural conditions. The current Extension Clubs' focus is on self improvement through continuing education, leadership development, and community service. This is accomplished through regular club meetings and special projects organized throughout the community.
Extent
3.5 Linear Feet (8 Boxes)
Arrangement of the Papers
Materials are arranged chronologically by format.
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated to the Special Collections Division by Betty Tyner, Margaret Summerhill, Verdie Sisco, and Anne Brown on April 23, 1990.
Processing Information
Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, August 1998.
Creator
- Searcy County Extension Homemakers Clubs (Organization)
Source
- Tyner, Betty (Donor, Person)
- Summerhill, Margaret (Donor, Person)
- Sisco, Verdie (Donor, Person)
- Brown, Anne (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Searcy County Extension Homemakers Clubs Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Vera Ekechukwu
- Date
- August 1998
- 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