Letters in these records include one from Martha Van Renesslaer, Ithaca, New York, June 23, 1913, requesting information on extension work and ordering tomatoes canned by Girls' Clubs. Another is from Lewis E. Theiss, Muncy, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1917, seeking information on North Carolina marketing plans and exhibits on preserved goods for an article on food conservation.

Reports include annual reports of Home Demonstration and Girls' Clubs (1916-1924), report of the home demonstration agent in Davidson County (1918) and of the district agent in unorganized territory, reports of Negro and white home demonstration agents (1926-1927), and an annual report of county extension workers. There are typescripts of a preliminary report of home demonstration work in 1919 written for the Commissioner of Agriculture and another entitled Lists of home demonstration agents cover the years 1915-1923. Early history of the program is found in a list of counties organized for home demonstration work, November 1911 to Spring, 1912, and a summary of home demonstration work in North Carolina, July 1, 1917 to July 1, 1918.

Typescripts of articles include: (published in Country Gentlemen, June, 1917), (1918), and There is also a typescript of a speech delivered to the American Home Economics Association at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, July, 1915.

Circulars, bulletins, and reprints from the agricultural extension are: and

Newspaper articles announce a program for Housekeeper's Week (1920) and tell the story of Mrs. McKimmon's work with girls in canning.

These reports (typescripts in notebooks) cover: list of agents, plan of work, county councils, changes in counties and personnel, county-wide instruction, finance, goals and accomplishments, state staff, agents' training, administrative conferences, Director's conferences, publicity, and statistics. Major headings (some with subheads) are: Farm Women's Short Course, Annual Club Girls' Short Course, Team Demonstrations, Foods and Nutrition, Clothing, Home Management, Home Furnishings, Better Homes in America, Home Health and Sanitation, Health, Beautification of Home Grounds, Home Gardens, Home Poultry, Home Dairy, Home Marketing, Arts and Crafts, Encampments, Encampments for Women, Fairs and Judging. A section on Negro work includes the Negro district agent, State School for Negro Agents, Food Preparation, Nutrition, Food Conservation, Clothing, Home Management, Home Gardens, Poultry, Home Dairying, and Beautification of Home Grounds.

Booklets made by members of Girls' Tomato Clubs give accounts of raising, canning, and marketing tomatoes. These are made by children as young as ten years and by adult club members. They cover every section of the state, including counties organized for home demonstration work.

Questionnaires were issued to secure information for Mrs. McKimmon's thesis. The questions asked for the selection of the most successful and least successful clubs, listing reasons for selection, number of meetings, average attendance, number participating in program, social meetings with neighbors, community projects - i.e. fairs, beautification of grounds - undertaken. Another questionnaire listed the answers received to the question: Why you went to meetings of your home demonstration club? Answers were to be checked according to relative importance. Additional questions asked the distance from the club meeting place, whether the road was good or bad, number of meetings held and attended, and reasons for absence.

Articles on Dr. McKimmon and her work with farm women appear in , the (New York), the , , , , , , , and in the magazine and story section of the .

Dr. McKimmon's achievements are recognized in articles about receiving a degree at State College in 1927, election to a national scholarship fraternity, selection as Raleigh's representative as an outstanding professional in the national Professional and Business Women's Club contest, receiving an honorary LL.D. from the University of North Carolina, naming as Woman of the Year by the , recognition at a meeting of the Association of Southern Agriculturists, and her retirement after twenty-five years.

Included in these items are photographs of the Farm women's Institute at Grimesland, members of the Southern Educational. Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, Bread Campaign Workers, Granville County (1919), and girls at Simmons College, Boston. There are sketches of Dr. McKimmon written by F. H. Jeter for and one by T. E. Browne for the Business and Professional Women's national contest, as well as material on Dr. McKimmon assembled by Anne Pauline Smith. Appointments are to the State Commission for the Sesquicentennial Celebration, Philadelphia, June 1-December 31, 1926 and to the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority for a two-year term (1935-1937) by Governor Ehringhaus. Programs include one for State College Commencement (1927), Fourth Annual Scholarship Day, State College (1929), and the 25th Anniversary of Home Demonstration Work in North Carolina sponsored by the North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstration Agents, July 30, 1936.

Her menu for the Live-at-Home Dinner by Governor Gardner, December 29, 1929, in honor of the Council of State and the Press Association of North Carolina is in these papers. Other articles relate to activities of club and farm women. The majority of the clippings are articles written by Dr. McKimmon on many subjects - home account keeping, food programs at the State Prison, book service for the rural population, women's marts, 4-H Club program for the American Legion, restoration of historic farm sites, clubhouse construction, seashore markets for farm women, and classes at State College.

Letters from county home demonstration agents, 4-H and Girls' Clubs, and councils of farm women all over the state telling of help derived from conferences, inspiration from speeches, suggestions from articles, gratification on becoming Master Farm Homemakers, and Negro home agents expressing appreciation for her encouragement and help. From all over the nation Dr. McKimmon received congratulations on awards and honors - in 1927 letters from Demonstration Agents in Louisiana, Maryland, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas complimenting her work as chairman of the committee on arrangements for the 20th annual meeting of the American Home Economics Association in Asheville. In 1931 she received congratulatory letters on being awarded an L.L.D. from the University of North Carolina from Dr. E. C. Brooks, Dean Thomas Nelson, Dr. Howard W. Odum, Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, and others. Additional letters of recognition came from Home Demonstration Agents and Extension Service workers throughout the East when Dr. McKimmon was awarded a Distinguished Service Ruby by the honorary Extension Service fraternity in 1936. Dr. McKimmon's professional colleagues in other states also wrote requesting information on North Carolina programs and policies and expressing enjoyment in taking part in Farm and Home Week programs.

There is correspondence from heads of various divisions of the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture acknowledging her help in revision of annual report forms and plans of cooperation with the North Carolina Relief Office, and also letters praising demonstration sessions on marketing and articles in the Extension Service Review. Friends at home wrote of their interest and appreciation of her work - Samuel A. Ashe, Josiah W. Bailey, Dr. Frank Graham, Dean J. W. Harrelson, Dr. Charles Laughinghouse, Dr. William B. McNider, M. G. Mann, Colonel Fred Olds, Clarence Poe, and Dr. Hubert A. Royster.

These contain appointments, meetings, notes on personnel, conferences, discussions with individuals, plans for courses, etc. In the latter years there are references to work on her history of the home demonstration program in the state.