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Institute of Home Economics (U.S.)
A practical government research group, it helped bring scientific thinking into everyday American life through work on food, household management, and family economics. Its publications reflect a mid-20th-century effort to turn home economics into clear, usable guidance for the public.
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Family fare : food management and recipes
by United States. Agricultural Research Service. Human Nutrition Research Division, Institute of Home Economics (U.S.), United States. Agricultural Research Service. Consumer and Food Economics Research Division
About the author
The Institute of Home Economics (U.S.) was a research agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. Its mission was to apply research to daily living, with work organized around areas such as human nutrition, clothing and housing, and household economics.
The institute appears in government and library records as the corporate author of practical publications on topics like meal planning, recipes, and family economics. Rather than being a single writer, it functioned as an institutional author, producing materials meant to translate research into advice ordinary families could use.
Historical USDA records also show the institute as part of a broader federal effort to connect science, nutrition, and consumer guidance in the mid-20th century. Because it was an organization rather than a person, there is no confirmed portrait of the authoring body itself; the image provided here is related to Ellen Swallow Richards, a pioneering figure in American home economics, not a member portrait of the institute.