Consumer Reports. Office of Public Information records, 1917-2007
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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 as Consumers Union. The Office of Public Information was established for public and media relations functions. Collection includes clippings, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, reports, reprints of articles and other printed materials relating to the Office's public relations and media activities. Topics and events covered in the materials include: consumer credit and financial management; Consumers Union history and anniversaries; the consumer and cooperative movements; food packaging and safety; household appliances; medical and health care; product safety; sport utility vehicle rollover tests; and relations between Consumers Union and the Newspaper Guild. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
- Extent:
- 30.0 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials in English, Chinese, French, German.
- Collection ID:
- RL.11950
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection includes clippings, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, reports, reprints of articles and other printed materials relating to the Office's public relations and media activities. Topics and events covered in the materials include: consumer credit and financial management; Consumers Union history and anniversaries; the cooperative movement; household appliances; medical and health care; product safety; sport utility vehicle rollover tests; and relations between Consumers Union and the Newspaper Guild.
- 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 as Consumers Union. The Office of Public Information was established for public and media relations functions. Formerly known as the Communications Division, the earliest record of the Office dates to 1958, when it was headed by George Goss, formerly head of the Washington office. He was succeeded by Jonathan Leff in 1960.
- Acquisition information:
- The Consumer Reports. Office of Public Information records 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, Jan. 2022;
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130.
- Arrangement:
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Organized into the following series: Administrative and General Files; Articles about Consumers Union; Photographs and Captions; Press Releases; Publications.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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[Identification of item], Consumer Reports. Office of Public Information records, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
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