Racine County Home and Community Education Records, 1947-1998

Scope and Content Note

Organizational records include Executive Board and Council meeting minutes, membership lists with addresses, Treasurer reports and ledgers, annual handbooks, and the organization’s “Excerpts” newsletter. International contains records related to the committees’ annual projects such as country studies, Pennies for Friendship, and work through the Associated Country Women of the World of which Racine County Home and Community Education was a part. Four scrapbooks hold records and program handouts from 1947-1951. Four scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings featuring club members and activities, photographs and program handouts from 1951-1979. A description of the annual activities was recorded on a cassette tape by a homemaker sometime after 1975.