Consumer Reports. Sylvia Lane papers, 1954-1978 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. Sylvia Lane was an economist who served on the Board of Directors of Consumers Union 1975-1977. The Sylvia Lane papers consist primarily of drafts, notes, reprints and published reports of Lane's advocacy and professional research writings. Subjects include consumer education, credit and credit discrimination, economic development, food distribution, health and medical care costs, housing and real estate, low-income communities and individuals, and sales and other taxes. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
0.8 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11822

Background

Scope and content:

The Sylvia Lane papers consist primarily of drafts, notes, reprints and published reports of Lane's advocacy and professional research writings. Subjects include consumer education, credit and credit discrimination, economic development, food distribution, health and medical care costs, housing and real estate, low-income communities and individuals, and sales and other taxes.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Sylvia Lane was an economist who served on the Board of Directors of Consumers Union 1975-1977.

Sylvia Lane was born in 1916 in New York. She graduated from Berkeley (AB, 1934; MA 1936), Columbia (MA, 1937) and the University of Southern California (PhD, 1957) with degrees in economics and finance. Lane held a number of Professorships: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (1947-1960); Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, San Diego State University (1961-1965); Associate Professor of Finance and Associate Director of the Center for Economic Education, California State University at Fullerton (1965-1969); Chairman, Department of Finance, California State University at Fullerton (1967-1969); Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis (1969-1976). She died in 2013.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. Sylvia Lane 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: Professional Files; Research Project Reports

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