Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
RS 16/1/0/1
Iowa State University
Extension and Outreach
Annual Reports, 1906-[ongoing]
Descriptive summary
| creator: | Iowa State University. Extension and Outreach |
| title: | Annual Reports |
| dates: | 1906-[ongoing] |
| extent: | 23.49 linear feet (15 records center cartons, 9 document boxes, and 1 half-document box) |
| collection number: | RS 16/1/0/1 |
| repository: | University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University. |
| language: | English |
Administrative information
| access: | Open for research |
| publication rights: | Consult Head, Special Collections Department |
| preferred citation: | Extension and Outreach Annual Reports, RS 16/1/0/1, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library. |
Access points
| People, Families, and Corporate Bodies: | Iowa State University. Extension and Outreach |
| Places: | |
| Subjects: | Agricultural extension work -- Iowa Home economics extension work -- Iowa |
| Genres: | Annual reports |
Abstract
The Department of Extension was founded in 1906 with funding from the Iowa General Assembly with Perry G. Holden serving as its first superintendent. In 1914, the U.S. Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, creating a nationwide system of cooperative extension services that provide outreach activities through land-grant universities. Subsequently, the Department of Extension became the Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics. In 1966, University Extension was established by merging the short courses service group, farm demonstrations service group, engineering extension service group, and Center for Industrial Research and Service into a single administrative unit. In 2006, University Extension became Extension and Outreach. The purpose of University Extension is to engage citizens through research-based educational programs in order to extend the resources of Iowa State University across the state. This collection contains University Extension annual reports dating back to the founding of the unit, as well as annual reports from specialists and departments within Extension. |
Historical note
In 1906, the Iowa General Assembly appropriated funds to establish a Department of Extension at Iowa State College (University). The beginnings of Extension work in Iowa began earlier through the pioneering efforts of several people. Mary B. Welch, wife of Iowa State College's first president, Adonijah Welch, gave six lectures on home economics to a group of sixty women in Des Moines around 1882-1883 and lectured throughout the state. Later, home economics became a regular feature of short courses alongside agriculture. James Wilson, appointed Professor of Agriculture and Director of the ISC Experiment Station in 1891, wished to broaden the reach of the college and requested to establish a short course in agriculture and a dairy school. Perry Holden later popularized and extended the agricultural short courses. Holden was initially contracted to teach a trial segment on corn as part of an agriculture short course in 1902. His charismatic personality and engaging teaching style brought high demand from the farmers taking the short course for more time devoted to corn, and he was soon hired on a permanent basis by the College as a professor of agronomy. In 1903, Holden attended a farmer's institute in Sioux County, speaking about the selection and cultivation of seed corn. Holden began his famous "Seed Corn Gospel Trains" in April 1904. These trains functioned as traveling exhibits that featured lectures and demonstrations that he and others delivered inside the train cars. Holden was appointed the first superintendent of Extension at Iowa State from 1906 to 1912. He focused on three branches of Extension work: demonstration farms, short courses, and education trains. In 1966, Cooperative Extension Service became University Extension through the merging of the short courses service group, farm demonstrations service group, engineering extension service group, and Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS, established in 1962). In 2006, University Extension became Extension and Outreach. Directors of Extension include:
Sources Bliss, Ralph K. History of Cooperative Agriculture and Home Economics Extension in Iowa--The First Fifty Years. Ames, IA: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 1960. Schwieder, Dorothy. 75 Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1993. |
Collection description
This collection (1906-[ongoing]) contains University Extension annual reports, as well as annual reports from specialists and departments within Extension. Beginning in 2011, the annual reports include video components, which can be found on the Iowa State University Web Archives: https://archive-it.org/home/iastate. |
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Organization
The collection is organized into two series: |
Description of series
| Series 1 | University Extension Annual Reports | 1907-2013 |
| extent: | 0.86 linear feet (0.43 records center carton, 0.43 document box) | |
| description: | This series contains annual and biennial reports from the establishment of Extension service in 1906 through the present, with some gaps as indicated in the container list. This series is arranged chronologically. | |
Container list
Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
1 |
1-4 |
Superintendent's Annual Report |
1907-1911 |
3 |
1-3 |
Biennial Report |
1912-1918 |
3 |
4-31 |
Annual Report |
1918-1946 |
3 |
32 |
Annual Narrative Administrative Report |
1949-1950 |
3 |
33-35 |
Annual Report |
1950-1952 |
3 |
36 |
Annual Report Summaries |
1951-1955 |
3 |
37-39 |
Annual Report |
1962-1964 |
24 |
1 |
Annual Report |
1964-1965 |
3 |
40-42 |
Annual Report |
1969-1971 |
3 |
43-45 |
Annual Report |
1973-1975 |
3 |
46-48 |
Annual Report |
1979-1981 |
3 |
49 |
Annual Report |
1983-1984 |
3 |
50-52 |
Annual Report |
1986-1988 |
3 |
53 |
Annual Report |
1990 |
3 |
54 |
Annual Report |
1992 |
3 |
55 |
Annual Report |
1994 |
3 |
56 |
Annual Report |
1998 |
3 |
57 |
Annual Report |
2004 |
3 |
58 |
Annual Report |
2006 |
24 |
16 |
Annual Report: Healthy People, Environments, Economies |
2008 |
24 |
17 |
Annual Report: Helping Iowans Through Tough Times |
2009 |
3 |
59-61 |
Annual Report |
2011-2013 |
Description of series
| Series 2 | Department and Specialist Annual Reports | 1906-1989 |
| extent: | 21.79 linear feet (14.5 records center cartons, 6.5 document boxes, 1 half-document box) | |
| description: | This series contains annual reports written for specific departments and programs within University Extension. This series is arranged alphabetically and chronologically. |
|
Container list
Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
3 |
62 |
4-H and Youth Development Enrollment: Annual Report |
1969 |
3 |
63-68 |
4-H and Youth: Annual Reports |
1972-1977 |
3 |
69-72 |
Agricultural Cooperation: Annual Report |
1955-1958 |
3 |
73-74 |
Agricultural Economics: Annual Report |
1919-1920 |
3 |
75-77 |
Agricultural Education: Annual Report |
1956-1958 |
3 |
78 |
Agricultural Education: Annual Report |
1978-1979 |
1 |
5-6 |
Agricultural Engineering: Annual Report |
1910-1912 |
3 |
79-80 |
Agricultural Engineering: Annual Report |
1919-1920 |
3 |
81-89 |
Agricultural Engineering: Annual Report |
1950-1958 |
4 |
1-12 |
Agricultural Engineering: Annual Report |
1971-1982 |
4 |
13 |
Agricultural Foundation: Annual Report |
1978-1979 |
4 |
14-16 |
Agricultural Project 4-H Clubs: Annual reports |
1952-1980 |
4 |
17-25 |
Agronomy: Annual Report |
1950-1958 |
4 |
26-36 |
Agronomy: Annual Report |
1971-1981 |
4 |
37-40 |
Animal Ecology: Annual Report |
1976-1982 |
1 |
7-12 |
Animal Husbandry: Annual Report |
1906-1912 |
4 |
41 |
Animal Husbandry: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
4 |
42-43 |
Animal Husbandry: Annual Report |
1949-1951 |
4 |
44-50 |
Animal Husbandry and Livestock Marketing (AMA): Annual Report |
1951-1958 |
4 |
51-62 |
Animal Science: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
4 |
63-68 |
Applied Art: Annual Report |
1972-1978 |
4 |
69 |
Architecture/Engineering Extension: Annual Report |
1977-1978 |
4 |
70 |
Architecture: Annual Report |
1979-1980 |
4 |
71-81 |
Art and Design: Annual Report |
1978-1989 |
4 |
82 |
Backbone Watershed: Annual Report |
1948 |
4 |
83 |
Beekeeping: Annual Report |
1919-1920 |
17 |
10 |
Bluffs Experimental Fruit Farm: Annual Reports |
1956-1963 |
4 |
84-92 |
Botany and Plant Pathology: Annual Report |
1949-1958 |
5 |
1-9 |
Botany and Plant Pathology: Annual Report |
1970-1979 |
5 |
10-12 |
Child Development and Family Relations: Annual Report |
1949-1952 |
5 |
13-18 |
Child Development and Family Life: Annual Report |
1954-1960 |
5 |
19-20 |
Clothing: Annual Report |
1920-1922 |
5 |
21 |
Clothing: Annual Report |
1942-1943 |
5 |
22-23 |
Clothing: Annual Report |
1949-1951 |
5 |
24-31 |
Clothing and Textiles: Annual Report |
1951-1959 |
5 |
32 |
College Pasture Farms: Annual Report |
1950-1951 |
5 |
33-35 |
Community and Regional Planning: Annual Report |
1977-1980 |
5 |
36 |
Community Development: Annual Report |
1973 |
5 |
37 |
Community Organization: Annual Report |
1950-1951 |
24 |
2 |
Community Resource Development: Annual Report |
1971 |
5 |
38 |
Community Resource Development Involvement Opportunities for Women in Area Planning: Annual Report |
1974-1975 |
5 |
39-40 |
Consumer Competence: Annual Report |
19721973 |
5 |
41-44 |
Consumer Information and Food Distribution (AMA): Annual Report |
1955-1958 |
1 |
15 |
Dairy: Annual Report |
1911-1912 |
5 |
45 |
Dairy Husbandry Section: Annual Report |
1943-1944 |
5 |
46 |
Dairy Husbandry Section: Annual Report |
1949-1950 |
5 |
47-54 |
Dairy Husbandry Section: Annual Report |
1950-1958 |
5 |
55-61 |
Dairy Industry: Annual Report |
1949-1956 |
6 |
1-2 |
Dairy Industry: Annual Report |
1956-1958 |
6 |
3 |
Dairy Manufacture: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
6 |
4-5 |
Dairy Marketing: Annual Report |
1957-1958 |
1 |
13-14 |
Dairy Production: Annual Report |
1908-1910 |
6 |
6-16 |
Dairy Science: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
6 |
17 |
Departmental Annual Reports |
1968 |
1 |
16-18 |
Domestic Science: Annual Report |
1909-1912 |
6 |
18 |
Economics: Annual Report |
1949-1950 |
6 |
19-29 |
Economics: Annual Report |
1971-1982 |
6 |
30-31 |
Economics and Sociology Section: Annual Report |
1950-1952 |
6 |
32-36 |
Editorial Department: Annual Report |
1941-1947 |
6 |
37-39 |
Education: Annual Report |
1970-1973 |
6 |
40 |
Education: Annual Report |
1977-1978 |
6 |
41 |
Entomology: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
6 |
42-43 |
Entomology: Annual Report |
1953-1955 |
6 |
44-51 |
Entomology: Annual Report |
1974-1982 |
6 |
52 |
Entomology and Wildlife: Annual Report |
1957-1958 |
6 |
53 |
Entomology and Wildlife: Annual Report |
1962-1963 |
6 |
54-57 |
Entomology and Wildlife: Annual Report |
1970-1974 |
6 |
58-60 |
Entomology and Wildlife Conservation: Annual Report |
1950-1953 |
6 |
61 |
Entomology, Wildlife Conservation, Beekeeping: Annual Report |
1949-1950 |
6 |
62-67 |
Evaluation of Iowa Intensive Extension Programs: Annual Project Report |
1957-1964 |
6 |
68 |
Experimental Farms: Annual Reports |
1944-1946 |
6 |
69 |
Experiment Station: Annual Reports |
1971-1980 |
25 |
5 |
Extension to Families: Annual Report |
1993-1994 |
6 |
70-76 |
Family Environment: Annual Report |
1971-1980 |
1 |
19-22 |
Farm Crops: Annual Report |
1906-1910 |
2 |
1-2 |
Farm Crops: Annual Report |
1910-1912 |
6 |
77 |
Farm Crops and Soils: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
6 |
78-81 |
Farm Labor Efficiency Studies: Progress Report |
1947 |
7 |
1 |
Farm Management: Annual Report Appendix |
1919-1920 |
7 |
2-13 |
Farm Management Section: Annual Report |
1929-1940 |
7 |
14 |
Farm Management and Agricultural Credit (Economics): Annual Report |
1970-1971 |
7 |
15-16 |
Food and Nutrition: Annual Report |
1920-1922 |
7 |
17-23 |
Food and Nutrition: Annual Report |
1933-1937 |
8 |
1-22 |
Food and Nutrition: Annual Report |
1937-1959 |
8 |
23-31 |
Food and Nutrition: Annual Report |
1971-1980 |
8 |
32-43 |
Food Technology: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
8 |
44-52 |
Forestry Department: Annual Report |
1949-1958 |
8 |
53-63 |
Forestry: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
8 |
64 |
Grain Marketing Project: Annual Report |
1950-1951 |
8 |
65-68 |
Grain Marketing (AMA): Annual Report |
1954-1958 |
8 |
69 |
Grant Development: Annual Report |
1988-1989 |
8 |
70 |
Home Demonstration Agents: Statistical Report |
1922-1923 |
8 |
71-72 |
Home Demonstration Agents, Assistant State Leader: Annual Report |
1920-1923 |
8 |
73-77 |
Home Demonstration Agents, State Leader: Annual Report |
1919-1924 |
9 |
1 |
Home Demonstration Supervision: Annual Report |
1941-1942 |
9 |
2-4 |
Home Economics: Annual Report |
1918-1924 |
9 |
5-9 |
Home Economics: Annual Report |
1970-1975 |
25 |
6 |
Home Economics: Annual Report |
1982-1983 |
25 |
7 |
Home Economics: Annual Report |
1987-1988 |
9 |
10-16 |
Home Economics Administration: Annual Report |
1973-1980 |
9 |
17 |
Home Economics Committee: Annual Report |
1974-1975 |
9 |
18 |
Home Economics Program Area: Annual Report |
1977-1978 |
9 |
19-20 |
Home Economics Specialists: Annual Report |
1959-1961 |
9 |
21-34 |
Home Economics Supervision: Annual Report |
1942-1956 |
10 |
1-4 |
Home Economics Supervision: Annual Report |
1956-1960 |
10 |
5-9 |
Home Economist-at-Large: Annual Report |
1953-1958 |
10 |
10-21 |
Home Furnishings: Annual Report (1 b/w photograph in folder 19) |
1948-1960 |
10 |
22 |
Home Furnishing and Costume Design: Annual Report |
1920-1921 |
10 |
23 |
Home Management: Annual Report |
1921-1922 |
10 |
24 |
Home Management: Annual Report |
1943-1944 |
10 |
25-38 |
Home Management: Annual Report |
1946-1959 |
10 |
39 |
Home Management for Low Income Families: Annual Report |
1972 |
2 |
3-10 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1906-1912 |
10 |
40-45 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1917-1922 |
11 |
1-10 |
Horticulture: Annual Report (1 b/w photograph in folder 1; 11 b/w photographs in folder 9) |
1922-1932 |
12 |
1-8 |
Horticulture: Annual Report (9 b/w photographs in folder 5) |
1932-1938 |
13 |
1-2 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1938-1940 |
14 |
1-5 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1940-1943 |
15 |
1 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1943-1944 |
24 |
18-23 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1944-1947 |
25 |
1-4 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1947-1949 |
15 |
2-9 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1949-1954 |
16 |
1-6 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1954-1959 |
17 |
1-3 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1959-1967 |
17 |
4-8 |
Horticulture: Annual Report |
1976-1982 |
17 |
9 |
Horticulture, Vegetable Crops - C.L. Fitch: Annual Report |
1937-1938 |
2 |
11 |
Household Economics: Annual Report |
1906-1907 |
17 |
11-19 |
Human Development and Family Life: Annual Report |
1971-1980 |
17 |
20 |
Improved Family Living: Annual Report |
1969-1970 |
17 |
21 |
Information/Communication Support: Annual Report |
1981 |
17 |
22-40 |
Information Service: Annual Report |
1947-1967 |
17 |
41-43 |
Information Service: Annual Report |
1978-1982 |
17 |
44-50 |
Institution Management: Annual Report |
1972-1980 |
17 |
51-53 |
Integrated Pest Management: Annual Report |
1979-1982 |
17 |
54-55 |
Iowa Concern/Rural Concern monthly reports |
1994-1998 |
17 |
56 |
Journalism: Annual Report |
1973-1974 |
17 |
57-74 |
Landscape Architecture: Annual Report |
1914-1937 |
18 |
1 |
Landscape Architecture: Annual Report |
1937-1938 |
18 |
2-10 |
Landscape Architecture: Annual Report |
1949-1958 |
18 |
11-21 |
Landscape Architecture: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
18 |
22 |
Land, Water and Energy in Century III: Annual Report |
1977-1978 |
24 |
3-6 |
Legal Affairs: Annual Report |
1964-1967 |
24 |
7-11 |
Legal Affairs: Annual Report |
1969-1974 |
24 |
12 |
Legal Affairs: Annual Report |
1976-1977 |
24 |
13 |
Legal Affairs: Annual Report |
1979-1980 |
18 |
23-24 |
Livestock Marketing: Annual Report |
1949-1951 |
18 |
25-27 |
Livestock Marketing: Annual Report |
1956-1959 |
18 |
28-37 |
Local Government: Annual Report |
1970-1980 |
18 |
38-39 |
Low Income and Disadvantaged Audiences: Annual Report |
1973-1975 |
18 |
40 |
Maps of Organization Work |
1922-1923 |
18 |
41 |
Marketing: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
24 |
14 |
Marketing and Business Management: Annual Report |
1971 |
18 |
42 |
Marketing and Utilization of Agricultural Products: Annual Report |
1964 |
18 |
43-45 |
Market Price Analysis (AMA): Annual Report |
1955-1958 |
18 |
46 |
Milk Utilization: Annual Report |
1920-1921 |
18 |
47-57 |
Music Extension: Annual Report |
1947-1958 |
18 |
58-59 |
Music Extension: Annual Report |
1972-1974 |
18 |
60 |
Natural Resource Use, Ecology and Environmental Quality: Annual Report |
1981 |
18 |
61-63 |
Outlook and Economic Information: Annual Report |
1955-1958 |
18 |
64 |
Plant Disease Clinic: Annual Report |
1974-1975 |
18 |
65-66 |
Plant Disease Clinic: Annual Report |
1992-1997 |
18 |
67-69 |
Plant Pathology, Seed and Weed Sciences: Annual Report |
1979-1982 |
2 |
12 |
Poultry: Annual Report |
1908-1909 |
18 |
70-71 |
Poultry: Annual Report |
1918-1920 |
18 |
72-78 |
Poultry Husbandry: Annual Reports |
1925-1931 |
19 |
1-29 |
Poultry Husbandry: Annual Reports |
1932-1960 |
19 |
30-31 |
Poultry Marketing: Annual Report |
1950-1951, 1954 |
20 |
1-3 |
Poultry Science: Annual Report |
1960-1962 |
20 |
4-8 |
Poultry Science: Annual Report |
1965-1967 |
20 |
9-20 |
Poultry Science: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
20 |
21 |
Preretirement and Aging: Annual Report |
1972 |
20 |
22-25 |
Production Economics (Farm Management, Credit and Tenure): Annual Report |
1954-1958 |
20 |
26-32 |
Project I - Extension Administration: Annual Report |
1960-1967 |
20 |
33-38 |
Project II - Information Services: Annual Report |
1961-1967 |
20 |
39-46 |
Project III - Agricultural Production, Management and Natural Resource Development: Annual Report |
1960-1967 |
21 |
1-7 |
Project IV - Marketing and Utilization of Agricultural Products: Annual Report |
1960-1967 |
21 |
8-15 |
Project V - Family Arts and Sciences: Annual Report |
1960-1967 |
21 |
16-22 |
Project VI - 4-H Club and Other Extension Youth Programs: Annual Report |
1960-1967 |
21 |
23-29 |
Project VII - Community and Public Affairs: Annual Report |
1960-1967 |
21 |
30-36 |
Project VIII - Organization and Supervision of County Operations: Annual Report |
1960-1964 |
21 |
37-40 |
Public Affairs: Annual Report |
1954-1958 |
24 |
15 |
Public Affairs: Annual Report |
1970-1971 |
21 |
41 |
Publicity From Township and County Project Leaders |
1922-1923 |
21 |
42-48 |
Recreation: Annual Report |
1949-1955 |
22 |
1-4 |
Recreation: Annual Report |
1955-1959 |
22 |
5-8 |
Rural Health Project: Annual Report |
1950-1954 |
22 |
9 |
Rural Leadership: Annual Report |
1950-1951 |
22 |
10-12 |
Rural Sociology: Annual report exhibits |
1932-1933 |
22 |
13-25 |
Rural Sociology: Annual Report |
1949-1958 |
22 |
26 |
Rural Young People's Section (Vol. III - Older Youth Clubs): Annual Report |
1949-1950 |
2 |
13 |
Schools Section: Annual Report |
1911-1912 |
22 |
27-31 |
Seed Laboratory: Annual Report |
1949-1955 |
22 |
32-34 |
Seed Laboratory: Annual Report |
1973-1979 |
22 |
35-36 |
Seed Technology: Annual Report |
1973-1975 |
22 |
37-38 |
Social Sciences: Annual Report |
1952-1954 |
23 |
1-10 |
Sociology: Annual Report |
1970-1980 |
2 |
14-18 |
Soils: Annual Report |
1906-1912 |
23 |
11-18 |
Soil Conservation: Annual Report |
1950-1958 |
23 |
19 |
Staff and College Programs: Annual Report |
1950-1951 |
23 |
20-25 |
Studies and Training: Annual Report |
1948-1954 |
23 |
26-34 |
Textiles and Clothing: Annual Report |
1971-1980 |
23 |
35 |
Title IX - Community Resource Development: Annual Report |
1973-1974 |
23 |
36-38 |
Training: Annual Report |
1955-1958 |
23 |
39-41 |
Training: Annual Report |
1971-1974 |
23 |
42 |
Veterinary: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
23 |
43-51 |
Veterinary Medicine: Annual Report |
1949-1958 |
23 |
52-63 |
Veterinary Medicine: Annual Report |
1970-1982 |
23 |
64 |
Visual Instruction: Annual Report |
1918-1919 |
23 |
65-68 |
Visual Instruction: Annual Report |
1950-1954 |
23 |
69-74 |
Vocational Education: Annual Report |
1950-1955 |
23 |
75 |
Young Families, Preretirement, and Aging: Annual Report |
1973-1974 |
23 |
76-77 |
Zoology and Entomology: Annual Report |
1955-1957 |