Special Collections Finding Aids
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
The Voices of American Homemakers collection (1981-1983) consists of interviews with 196 women throughout the United States about homemaking in the first half of the twentieth century. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country.
Source Collection
Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Keywords
Family--United States., Home economics--United States., Housewives--United States--Interviews., Rural conditions., Oral histories.
Recommended Citation
"MSS0238. Voices of American Homemakers collection finding aid" (2021). Special Collections Finding Aids. 215.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-findingaids/215
Date
2023 November
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