Finding Aid for Isabel Bevier Papers, 1879-1942, 1945-1955 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Isabel Bevier Papers, 1879-1942, 1945-1955

ID: 8/11/20

Primary Creator: Bevier, Isabel (1860-1942)

Extent: 5.1 cubic feet

Arrangement: By type of material and chronological thereunder

Subjects: American Home Economics Association, Autobiography, Faculty Papers, Farm Houses, Food Administration, United States, Food Science, Illinois Farmers Institute, Nutrition, Women, Women's Education

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Papers of Isabel Bevier (1860-1942), professor of household science (1900-21), including correspondence, publications by Bevier (1898-1940) and the Household Science Department (1900, 1905, 1908-21, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1938, 1945-47), manuscripts (1896-1940), diaries (1917-20, 1922, 1924, 1931, 1935, 1940), clippings, photographs and notes about household science or home economics, the education of women, departmental administration and history, enrollments, the Woman's Building (1905) and laboratories, farm homes and houses, food and nutrition, homemaking, the family, budgeting, sanitation, the Farmer's Institutes (1907-09), extension work (1912-18), the Food Administration (1917-18), biographical and autobiographical accounts,anecdotes recalled by students and associates (1929-37), European travel (1927, 1931), obituaries and memorials (1942). The series includes Bevier's The House, Its Plan, Decoration and Care (1907, 1914), The Home Economics Movement (1906), The Story of Isabel Bevier by Lita Bane (1955), five books by Ellen Richards (1899-1910) and Richards' biography (1912). Correspondents include Eugene Davenport and Edmund James and officers of the American Home Economics Association (1911-12).

American Home Economics Association
Autobiography
Faculty Papers
Farm Houses
Food Administration, United States
Food Science
Illinois Farmers Institute
Nutrition
Women
Women's Education

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 9/63; 2/19 & 28/74

Other Note: 6 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0811020.pdf

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