Cornell University's Mann Library has developed the HEARTH project to put historical home economics material online:

Mann Library at Cornell University has begun work to preserve and make available electronically essential and influential books and journals in the field of home economics, focusing on items published in the United States before 1950. We have completed a project that identified and ranked material. We also established an outline of the relationships among the sub-categories of the field of home economics: child development, clothing and textiles, and so forth. Our approach to this project, developing bibliographies, and then having the books ranked in importance by scholars, is based on the earlier successful project to identify and preserve the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.

We built a database of the published works up to 1950, drawing primarily on bibliographies and library catalogs. Our guidelines for inclusion focus on widely available, commercially published materials and scholarly works. This database currently contains several thousand titles.

The project provides a detailed look at domestic culture, attitudes and practices in the US between 1850 and 1950.

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