Consumer Reports. Helen Canoyer papers, 1938-1968 and undated
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Summary
- Creator:
- Consumer Reports (Firm)
- Abstract:
- Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Helen Gertrude Canoyer was an author, home economist and educator who served as Dean of the Home Economics colleges at Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts. The Helen Canoyer papers include correspondence, clippings, news releases, lecture notes, texts to speeches and articles and other printed materials. An audio tape contains an interview of Canoyer. Much of the materials pertain to Canoyer's work with the Consumer Advisory Council, its administration and its efforts to advocate for consumer protection, consumer education and home economics. Other materials pertain to conferences, personal and professional correspondence, and writings. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
- Extent:
- 3.0 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.11809
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Helen Canoyer papers include correspondence, clippings, news releases, lecture notes, texts to speeches and articles and other printed materials. An audio tape contains an interview of Canoyer. Much of the materials pertain to Canoyer's work with the Consumer Advisory Council, its administration and its efforts to advocate for consumer protection, consumer education and home economics. Other materials pertain to conferences, personal and professional correspondence, and writings.
- Biographical / historical:
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Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Helen Gertrude Canoyer was an author, home economist and educator who served as Dean of the Home Economics colleges at Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts.
Helen Canoyer was born in Minnesota in 1903. She attended the University of Minnesota (BS, MS, PhD in 1940, the first woman to graduate with a doctorate at the university) and taught economics and marketing there until World War II. During the war Canoyer served with the War Production Board, Department of Commerce and with the Office of Alien Property Custodian. She became Dean of the College of Home Economics at Cornell University in 1954 and held the position until she retired in 1968; she was the first woman faculty member in the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration at Cornell. In 1962 President Kennedy appointed Canoyer to lead the Consumer Advisory Council. In 1971 Canoyer was named Dean of the College of Home Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Canoyer died in San Francisco in 1984.
- Acquisition information:
- The Consumer Reports. Helen Canoyer papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2019.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Richard Collier, Feb. 2020;
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130
- Arrangement:
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Organized into the following series: Consumer Advisory Council files; Personal and Professional files; Audiovisual materials
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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