Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (A.C.E.S.) Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service including books, booklets, pamphlets, and educational material related to nutrition; files from the Director's Office of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (ACES), annual reports, correspondence, publications and discontinued publications, photographs, and a T-shirt; a book by Norwood Allen Kerr; material from (ACES) department of home economics; as well as correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and slides, film strips, two vinyl records, a mimeoscope, a pillowcase, a tote bag, a hand soap bottle,materails relating to 4-H club, a Turner crystal microphone, a Polaroid 360 land camera, a Polaroid printer copier, and a print media guide, General Electric Flashcubes.
Dates
- 1911 - 2016
Creator
- Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for public research.
Biographical / Historical
The Alabama Cooperative Extension Service is headquartered at Auburn University, with offices in each of the state's 67 counties. Created as a part of a national system in 1914, work in teaching agricultural practices and home demonstration work began in 1907 and continues today. During segregation, black extension programs were administered through an office in Tuskegee and black agents carried out their duties in a number of counties throughout the state.
Extent
53.55 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This finding aid is organized by accessions. Each accession represents an addition to the collection. Each accession also represents a transfer of physical and legal custody of archival materials from the donor(s) to Auburn University Special Collections and Archives.
General
Conversion of the finding aids for this collection from legacy formats into ArchivesSpace is in progress.
Processing Information
Accession 21-017 processed and added to ArchivesSpace by Jennifer Wiggins, April 30, 2021.
Accession 21-048 was processed by Tori Buchanan, May 15, 2023.
Accession 21-033 processed by Jacob Kachelhofer, April 15th, 2024.
Accession 24-015 procesed by Jacob Kachelhofer, October 1st, 2024.
- 4-H clubs
- African American agricultural extension workers
- African American county agricultural agents
- African American home economics extension workers
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural extension workers
- Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Auburn University
- County agricultural agents
- Home demonstration work
- Home economics extension workers
- Rural conditions
Creator
- Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (A.C.E.S.) Records
- Subtitle
- Record Group 71
- Status
- In Progress
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
