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
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 |
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. |
People, Families, and Corporate Bodies: | Iowa State University. Extension and Outreach |
Places: | |
Subjects: | Agricultural extension work -- Iowa Home economics extension work -- Iowa |
Genres: | Brochures |
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 researchâbased 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. |
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 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. |
This collection (circa 1910-2011, undated) contains various brochures from Extension and its units. |
Related collections in the Special Collections and University Archives Department, Iowa State University Library include: Other collections in the Extension Record Series (RS 16) |
The files are arranged alphabetically. |
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 |