Manuscript Collection
Files
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Identifier
Accession 429
Inclusive Dates
1948-1983
Restrictions
Open under the rules and regulations of the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections
Collection Size
14,000 pieces, 7.00 linear feet
Language
English
Scope and Content Note
The South Carolina Association of Future Homemakers of America Records are a valuable source on the history of girls’ home economics clubs in South Carolina from 1948 to 1983. While the first club was organized in 1933 to promote an appreciation of home life and to further interest in home economics on the part of young women in the state, the records do not begin until 1936. The collection consists of correspondence, organizational records, bylaws, handbooks, workbooks, minutes from meetings, agendas from conventions, club reports from the different county chapters, The Livewire (newsletter), photographs, slides, film, negatives, scrapbooks, photograph albums, banners, and emblems. The purpose of the Association is to promote an appreciation of home life, to encourage democracy in home and community, to foster the development of creative leadership, to provide wholesale individual and group recreation and to further interest in home economics. The collection also contains records relating to the New Homemakers Association (NHA) which affiliated with the South Carolina FHA in 1965.
Provenance
The papers of the S.C. Future Homemakers of America Club, a high school club for girls, were deposited with the Archives on September 30, 1981 by Dr. Brenda Compton, HED State Supervisor.
Copyright
For information concerning copyright please contact the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University.
Finding Aid Citation
Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections, Winthrop University, "South Carolina Association of Future Homemakers of America Records - Accession 429". Finding Aid 1400.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1400
LC Subject Headings
South Carolina Future Homemakers of America--Archives; New Homemakers of America; Home economics--South Carolina--Societies, etc--History; Young women--South Carolina--Societies and clubs; Girls--South Carolina--Societies and clubs; Students--Societies, etc.
