Consumer Reports. Edward M. Brecher papers, 1928-1967 and undated

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Creator:
Consumer Reports (Firm)
Abstract:
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Edward M. Brecher was a journalist and free-lance science writer who served as Associate Editor of Consumer Reports publications in the 1940s-1950s. The Edward M. Brecher papers include clippings, correspondence, drafts of articles, research notes and other printed materials relating to some of Brecher's writing projects including articles co-written with Ruth Brecher. Topics represented include consumer education and protection, nursing home care, health and legal aspects of smoking, and urban transportation systems. Organizations represented include the American Cancer Society, Department of Health Education and Welfare, Federal Trade Commission, J. Walter Thompson, Liggett & Myers, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
4.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11803

Background

Scope and content:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Edward M. Brecher was a journalist and free-lance science writer who served as Associate Editor of Consumer Reports publications in the 1940s-1950s. The Edward M. Brecher papers include clippings, correspondence, drafts of articles, research notes and other printed materials relating to some of Brecher's writing projects including articles co-written with Ruth Brecher. Topics represented include consumer education and protection, nursing home care, health and legal aspects of smoking, and urban transportation systems. Organizations represented include the American Cancer Society, Department of Health Education and Welfare, Federal Trade Commission, J. Walter Thompson, Liggett & Myers, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Edward M. Brecher was a journalist and free-lance science writer who served as Associate Editor of Consumer Reports publications in the 1940s-1950s.

Edward M. Brecher was born in 1912 in Minnesota. He graduated with degrees from Swarthmore (BA, 1932) and the University of Minnesota (MS, 1934). Brecher served as Associate Editor of Consumer Reports 1947-1951. His spouse, Ruth Ernestine Cook Brecher, frequently served as research partner and co-author. Brecher published two books: Consumer Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs (1972) and Love, Sex and Aging (1984). He died in 1989.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. Edward M. Brecher papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Richard Collier, Mar. 2020;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Consumer and the Supreme Court; Nursing Homes; Smoking; Smoking and the Consumer Interest; Urban Transportation.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Subjects:
Consumer education
consumer protection
Nursing home patients -- Care
Smoking -- United States
Transportation
Names:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
United States. Federal Trade Commission
Brecher, Edward M.

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