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Descriptive
summary
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creator:
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Iowa
Master Farm Homemakers Guild
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title:
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Records |
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dates:
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1928-[ongoing]
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extent:
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14.9 linear
feet (7 document boxes, 7 oversized boxes, and 1 card file box)
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collection number:
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MS
60 |
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repository:
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Special
Collections Department, Iowa State University
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Administrative
information |
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access:
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Open
for research
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publication rights:
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Consult Head, Special Collections Department
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preferred citation:
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Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Guild Records, MS 60,
Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.
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Historical note
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The Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Guild was initiated in 1928 with
the selection of five Iowa women for the Master Farm Homemaker
Award. The award
was established by F. W. Beckman (editor) and Bess Rowe (women’s
editor) of The Farmer's Wife, a magazine published for
farmwomen by the Webb Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota.
According to a 1970 History published by the Guild, the
purpose of the program was to give recognition to the
contribution that farm women were making to the nation as
homemakers and as voluntary community leaders.
The women receiving recognitions were to be symbols of
the highest values in rural life.
From
1928 to 1931, five women were selected each year for Master Farm
Homemakers honors. In
1931, The Farmers Wife ceased to function as the Guild’s
administrator, but the membership continued to function as a
state group. In
1938, the Guild wished to re-institute the annual recognition of
outstanding farmwomen. A
committee was formed to confer with the Extension Service about
the selection of future Guild members, and in 1940 a request was
made to Wallace’s Farmer magazine to take over
sponsorship of the award. Zoe
Murphy, the magazine’s homemaking editor, was placed in charge
of the program. The
difficulties of the war years intervened, however, and no new
Guild members were selected until 1947.
Since that time, five to seven new members have been
added to the Guild each year. (For more information on Guild History see History of
the Master Farm Homemakers Guild in file 2/3).
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Collection description
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This collection
(1928-[ongoing])
includes historian’s books, secretary’s
books, and scrapbooks as well as correspondence regarding annual
meetings and Guild projects, including Building the
Generations. Among the correspondents is Joan Moore.
Related
collections include MS 387 Associated Country Women of the World
Records and MS 437 National Master Farm Homemakers Guild
Records.
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Organization
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The collection is listed in chronological order.
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Container list
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Box |
Folder |
Title |
Dates |
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1 |
1 |
Five new members honored each year listed in
index. Symbol and meaning of the IMFHG explained. Worksheet
issued and filled out by all 1928 nominees. Reports of annual
state meetings at Ames 1936-1938, 1940-1941. Includes 11
photographs. |
1928-1931 |
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3 |
4 |
Membership |
1928-1931 |
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6 |
1 |
Scrapbook |
1928-1931 |
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5 |
1 |
List of members |
1928-1932 |
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5 |
7 |
News clippings |
1928-1970 |
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3 |
5 |
Minutes – Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Guild
Meetings |
1929-1950 |
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3 |
7 |
Projects, including Reading Project and Library
Project |
1931-1950 |
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3 |
6 |
Minutes – National Master Farm Homemakers Guild
Meetings |
1934-1950 |
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3 |
2 |
Correspondence – annual meetings |
1935-1946 n.d. |
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3 |
28 |
Selection of Guild members – letter and
nomination form |
1941, n.d. |
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1 |
2 |
Five new members each year listed in index.
Includes 6 photographs. |
1947-1949 |
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6 |
2 |
Scrapbook |
1947-1949 |
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3 |
3 |
Correspondence – letters of acceptance from new
Guild members written to Zoe Murphy of Wallaces Farmer |
1947-1951 |
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15 |
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Membership cards |
1947-2003 |
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1 |
3 |
Five or six new members honored each year listed
in index. National Guild of Master Farm Homemakers newsletter
(1952) and brief organizational history. Includes 12
photographs. |
1950-1954 |
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6 |
3 |
Scrapbook |
1950-1954 |
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4 |
5 |
Minutes (includes Treasurer’s Reports and
Correspondence) |
1951-1972 |
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12 |
1 |
Treasurer’s Book, includes Register of Members |
1954-1990 |
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1 |
4 |
New members honored each year listed in index.
Minutes from meeting September 26, 1955. Minutes from the
Recognition meeting of November 25, 1957. Report from National
MFHG 1956, 1958, 1959. Includes 10 photographs. |
1955-1959 |
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7 |
1 |
Scrapbook |
1955-1959 |
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2 |
1 |
New members honored each year listed in index.
Minutes from IMFHG June 1961; August 28, 1961; June 24, 1962;
Fall 1962; December 1964. Report from National MFHG August
12-13, 1962; October 1963; August 1964. Includes 27 photographs. |
1960-1964 |
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7 |
2 |
Scrapbook |
1960-1964 |
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14 |
15 |
Awards Programs |
1960-1968 |
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5 |
3 |
Meeting minutes -- June 24th, 1962 |
1962 |
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2 |
2 |
New members honored each year listed in index.
Minutes from IMFHG December 13, 1965; December 12, 1966; June 9,
1968; June 9, 1969; November 17, 1969. Report from National
MFHG, May 1965; May 12, 1967; November 26, 1968. Report on
National annual meeting May 1968. IMFHG Constitution (revised)
1968. Includes 30 photographs. |
1965-1969 |
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8 |
OVR |
Scrapbook |
1965-1969 |
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3 |
8 |
Secretary’s Book (these files include
correspondence, meeting attendance lists, meeting minutes,
meeting programs and treasurer’s reports) |
1967 |
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4 |
3 |
Correspondence |
1967-1968 |
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12 |
2 |
Treasurer’s Book |
1967-1979 |
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3 |
9 |
Secretary’s Book |
1968 |
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5 |
8 |
Treasurer’s reports and minutes |
1968-1999 |
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3 |
10 |
Secretary’s Book |
1969 |
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3 |
11 |
Secretary’s Book |
1970 |
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2 |
3 |
History of the Iowa Master
Homemakers Guild.
List of Guild members. New members of 1970. Pamphlets of awards
for 1972, 1973. Minutes from IMFHG June 14, 1970; June 12, 1971;
November 22, 1971; June 4, 1972, November 20, 1972; June 3,
1973; November 19, 1973. Report from National MFHG October 1970;
December 1971; November 17, 1973; November 8, 1972. Includes 14
photographs. |
1970-1974 |
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9 |
OVR |
Scrapbook |
1970-1974 |
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3 |
12 |
Secretary’s Book |
1971 |
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14 |
1 |
Newspaper Clippings |
1971, n.d. |
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3 |
13 |
Secretary’s Book |
1972 |
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3 |
14 |
Secretary’s Book |
1973 |
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4 |
6 |
Minutes (includes Treasurer’s Reports and
Correspondence) |
1973-1993 |
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3 |
15 |
Secretary’s Book |
1974 |
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4 |
4 |
List of Officers |
1974, n.d. |
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14 |
2 |
Award Programs |
1974-1989 |
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14 |
3 |
Lists of Officers and Members |
1974-2005 |
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3 |
16 |
Secretary’s Book |
1975 |
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2a |
1 |
List of officers and new members. Pamphlets of
awards for 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980. News clippings
regarding members. Minutes from IMFHG June 8, November 20, 1975;
June 13, November 23, 1976; November 9, 1977; November 8, 1978;
June 10, November 20, 1979; June 22, November 19, 1980; June 14,
November 24, 1981; June 27, November 23, 1982; June 12, 1983.
Report from National MFHG October 1974; October 1976; September
1977; October 1978; October 1980; October 1983. Includes 30
photographs. |
1975-1983 |
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3 |
17 |
Secretary’s Book |
1976 |
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4 |
2 |
Annual Reports |
1976-1992 |
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3 |
18 |
Secretary’s Book |
1977 |
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3 |
19 |
Secretary’s Book |
1978 |
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3 |
1 |
Constitution |
1978, n.d. |
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3 |
20 |
Secretary’s Book |
1979 |
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12 |
3 |
Treasurer’s Book |
1979-1997 |
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3 |
21 |
Secretary’s Book |
1980 |
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3 |
22 |
Secretary’s Book |
1981 |
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3 |
23 |
Secretary’s Book |
1982 |
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3 |
24 |
Secretary’s Book |
1983 |
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2b |
1 |
Newspaper clippings and other biographical
information regarding members, meeting minutes, new member
programs and photographs (51 color prints, 7 b/w prints). |
1983-1988 |
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3 |
25 |
Secretary’s Book |
1984 |
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3 |
26 |
Secretary’s Book |
1985 |
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3 |
27 |
Secretary’s Book |
1986 |
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12 |
4 |
Secretary's Reports |
1987-1991 |
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10 |
OVR |
Scrapbook |
1987-1993 |
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14 |
4 |
Award Programs |
1990-1999 |
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14 |
5 |
Meeting Minutes |
1990-2005 |
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14 |
6 |
Financial Records |
1990-2006 |
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14 |
7 |
Constitution |
1992 |
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5 |
9 |
Slides – Annual Report in Spearfish, South
Dakota and CWC (Country Women’s Council in Des Moines (38 color
slides) |
1992 |
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5 |
10 |
Slides – Annual Report, Mozambique Project,
selected slides used in presentation (12 color slides) |
1992 |
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4 |
1 |
Videotape -- Celebrating Farm Homemaking:
Conversations with Rural Women. Members of the Iowa Master
Farm Homemakers Guild discuss their lives, the lives of their
mothers and grandmothers, and their thoughts about life in the
future. Produced by the Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Guild and
Wallaces Farmer with production assistance from the Iowa State
University Media Production Unit. |
1992 |
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12 |
5 |
Secretary's Reports |
1992-1994 |
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11 |
OVR |
Scrapbook |
1992-1996 |
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14 |
8 |
"History of the Iowa Master Farm Homemakers
Guild" |
1993 |
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5 |
11 |
Slides – Annual Report in Topeka (24 color
slides) |
1993 |
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5 |
12 |
Slides – Annual Meeting in Des Moines (24 color
slides) |
1994 |
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12 |
6 |
Secretary's Reports |
1995-1999 |
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5 |
13 |
Slides – Awards (5 color slides) |
1996 |
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5 |
5 |
Bridging the Generations Final Report (1 of
2) |
1997-2001 |
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5 |
6 |
Bridging the Generations
Final Report (2 of
2) |
1997-2001 |
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5 |
4 |
Bridging the Generations Teacher’s Packet |
1998 |
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14 |
9 |
Cassette Tapes – Luncheon and Induction of New
Members (3 audiocassettes) |
1998, n.d. |
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14 |
10 |
Bridging the Generations Exhibit Material |
1998-2000 |
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14 |
11 |
Correspondence |
2000 |
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12 |
7 |
Secretary's Reports |
2000-2002 |
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12 |
8 |
Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws |
2001 |
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13 |
OVR |
Scrapbook (3-2x3, 35-3x5, 15-4x5, 18-4x6,
13-4x7, 5-4x10 color photographs) |
2001-2005 |
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14 |
12 |
"History of the Iowa Master Farm Homemakers
Guild, 1928-2003" |
2003 |
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14 |
13 |
Award Programs |
2004 |
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14 |
14 |
Annual Report |
2005 |
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5 |
2 |
Constitution and By-Laws |
n.d. |
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