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Interview with Florence Beck, Home Economics '21

What was Home Economics?
Overview
Timeline
Faculty Biographies
Home Sewing
Was Home Economics A Profession?
What Type of Research Did Home Economists Do?
What Careers Did Home Economics Include?
What Was the Impact of the College of Home Economics on a National and International Level?
What Formats and Techniques Did Home Economists Use to Educate the Public?
What Role Did Home Economists Play in the National Emergencies of the Twentieth Century?
How Did Home Economists Influence American Consumer Culture?
How Did Home Economics Students See Themselves?
What Were Practice Apartments?
What Was the Role of Home Economics in the Life of the University?
Why the Change to Human Ecology?
Women's Suffrage
What was Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with Cornell's College of Home Economics?
Lemo Rockwood and "The Marriage Course"
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Alumnae Interviews

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