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Sewing -- Study and teaching

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Fannie Beal papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.60
Scope and Contents The papers of Fannie Beal contain two notebooks from her classes at Michigan Agricultural College: a cooking notebook and a sewing notebook. The first volume contains notes from her senior cooking class about assorted recipes for fruit dishes, juice, rolls, and desserts. Also within this notebook are lecture notes pertaining to canning, the chemical make-up of humans, and the basics of proteins, sugars, and starches. Students in the class were also taught basic biology, shopping for food,...
Dates: 1907 - 1908

Marie R. Rouse papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-28.20
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a scrapbook for an Extension Service class from 1928 to 1930. The scrapbook includes sewing samples and handouts for classes on child care that Rouse took. The photographs folder contains images of friends and family including children in front of a school, men out in a vineyard possibly at a party at Michigan State College, and men with tractors with the caption "at M.A.C. Feb. 1925" which may be the tractor repair short course. There is also a card dated 1919...
Dates: 1919 - 1930

Mary Kramer Grammel papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.46
Scope and Contents The Mary Kramer Grammel papers span the years 1897 to 1899 and consist of domestic science note cards, a sewing instruction booklet, a sewing sampler booklet, and notes from her 1899 physics class. The physics notes include diagrams for experiments with matching lab worksheets and mathematical formulas, as well as practice problems. She had her note cards from her domestic science class bound into a book for future use. The sewing instruction booklet explains how to sew certain hems and...
Dates: 1897 - 1899