Archives West Finding Aid

The collection consists of various publication of the Agricultural Extension Service of the State College of Washington (also as Washington State College; later as Washington State University). As the goal of Extension was outreach to the public, the majority of these were aimed at informing / aiding either the layman, or at a professional in farming or a similar field.

Home Economics News Service comprises releases for publication in newspapers or on radio, primarily aimed at the homemaker. Agricultural Extension Service News and the Washington State Farmcast comprises similar releases aimed at farming professionals, with the latter solely intended for radio use. Extension Mimeographs are short informative publications on a single topic, often practical “how to” works, and often including illustrations and drawings.

As some of the series were published jointly with other institutions, and as the form of the Extension Service name varied by publications, the originating institution(s) as given in the publication is included as part of the publication title in the container list below. However, ‘Agricultural Extension Service’ and ‘Extension Service’ are simply different ways of naming the same thing.

It should be noted that many items are published without dates. As the copies in this collection were collected by various libraries, many have library date stamps on them, but those are not the date of publication.