Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 16/1/0/3
Iowa State University

Extension and Outreach
Brochures, circa 1910-2011, undated


Descriptive summary

creator: Iowa State University. Extension and Outreach
title: Brochures
dates: circa 1910-2011, undated
extent: 0.84 linear feet (1 document box, 2 half-document box)
collection number: RS 16/1/0/3
repository: University Archives, Special Collections and University Archives Department, Iowa State University.
language: English

 

Administrative information

access: Open for research
publication rights: Consult Head, Special Collections and University Archives Department
preferred citation: Extension and Outreach Brochures, RS 16/1/0/3, Special Collections and University Archives 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:

Brochures

 

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, and 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 various brochures from Extension and its units.

 

Historical note

In 1906, the Iowa General Assembly appropriated funds to establish a Department of Extension at Iowa State College (University). 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 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. The Act brought together funding at the national, state, and county levels to support the work of these cooperative extension services, and the program was administered through the United States Department of Agriculture. At ISU, the Department of Extension became Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics.

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.

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 (circa 1910-2011, undated) contains various brochures from Extension and its units.

 

Related materials

Related collections in the Special Collections and University Archives Department, Iowa State University Library include:

Other collections in the Extension Record Series (RS 16)

 

Organization

The files are arranged alphabetically.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

3

1

4-H brochures

1959-1972, undated

3

2

Agribusiness brochures

1970-1978

1

1

Agribusiness Education program

2008-2009

1

2-3

Agricultural Extension

1969-2011, undated

1

5

Agriculture conferences

1969-1998

1

4

Architecture Extension

1977-1980

1

6

Consumer Business Week

1972

1

7

Continuing Education programs

1969-1987, undated

3

3

County Extension Council

1971

3

4

Dairy Extension

1970

3

5

Economics Extension

undated

3

6

Entomology brochure

1969

3

7

Exercise

1960s circa

1

9

Extension Conference programs (bound)

1924-1925

1

10

Extension Conference programs (bound)

1935-1965

3

8

Extension Information Network

1994

1

11

Extension Service conference

1966

1

12

Extension Sociology: seminar

1981

3

9

Family Violence series

1993

3

10

Farm and Home Week

1925

3

11

Farm Management

1974

3

12

Financing Public Education in Iowa

1973 circa

1

14

Food Safety Project

2008

1

15

Forestry Extension leaflets

1992

2

1-2

General

1942-2002, undated

1

13

General

1960-1965

1

8

General

1977-2003, undated

3

13

Government by the People program

1971

3

14

Home Economics Extension

1910 circa-1971

1

25

Home Economics Extension

1944-1963, undated

1

16

Home Economics Extension

2003, undated

1

17

Iowa Home Week Short Course

1924

1

18

Lifelong Learning

2001, undated

1

19

North Iowa Area Development

1968

3

15

Nutrition Extension

1972 circa-1974, undated

1

20

"Remembering Buxton"

1984

3

16

"Room to Soar!" 4-H camp

1987

1

21

"Tenant's Residual for Cash Rent"

1994

3

17

Urban Development and Management

1972

1

22

Veterinary Medicine Extension

1969-1972

3

18

Water

1986

1

23

Water Industry Conference

1969

1

24

"Where Do We Go from Here?"

1982