Governor’s Residence, chair cover presentation, 1978 (10 items)

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5.23-32

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The photographs and slides in the North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council collection were accessioned as part of the initial records deposit by the North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council. The records were processed as Manuscript 275. The visual images document the people and activities of the council spanning from the 1940s to the 1980s. The images have been organized into three series: People, Exhibitions, and Events. The copy photographic prints and copy slides related to the council’s Oral History Project Memories of North Dakota Homemakers, that were accessioned as part of this collection, were incorporated into Photograph Collection 2079 which contains all photographs collected for this particular project. Many of the images appear in the three-book series published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The People Series includes group photographs of the attendees at the council’s annual meetings from 1943 to 1968 as well as group photographs of the annual officers. These were removed from a three-ring binder, with the original chronological order retained. In addition there are other group images some identified as to the people but not the event. The EFNEP Annual Conference images likely are the North Dakota representatives at the event. There is a series of six portraits of Grace DeLong of the NDSU Extension Service who worked closely with the council. There are also several miscellaneous portraits with only Sue Fowler identified. The Exhibitions Series includes images of exhibits and displays done by the North Dakota Agricultural College Home Demonstration Work and individual homemakers clubs across the state. The displays usually have a theme related to homemakers or homemaking. Those dated have been organized chronologically; the others by broad time periods. Images 47-62 date from the 1970s-1980s and are color snapshots. The Events Series begins with group photographs of the North Dakota delegates to the National Home Extension Homemakers Council. The images from the North Dakota Extension Homemakers Council meetings include audience and program shots as well as individuals receiving awards. There is a series of snapshots taken at NDSU in 1978 when chair covers were presented to Gov. and Mrs. Art Link. They had been designed by various North Dakota artists and portrayed various scenes from across North Dakota. The covers were to be used on the chairs used in the formal dinning area of the Governor’s residents in Bismarck. There is a snapshot of Bonnie Consolo with a group of women when she spoke at NDSU in 1980. Elizabeth Lorenz of Germany apparently came to study at NDSU in 1949 and likely was sponsored by or became involved with the homemakers council. This study program was coordinated by the Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students headquartered in New York City. After her return to Germany she continued to maintain contact with council members and sent back photographs of herself, husband and children. This file includes a print of a group of students including Miss Lorenz on board the S.S. Ernie Pyle on their arrival in New York harbor, taken in 1949. The photographs from Germany, from the mid-1950s, are all identified on the back. She married a Heinrich Boege. They also appear to include images of her parents and siblings.