Consumer Reports. Walker Sandbach papers, 1953-1975

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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 as Consumers Union. Walker Sandbach was an activist in the cooperative movement who served as Executive Director of Consumers Union from 1965-1974. Collection includes articles, clippings, correspondence, research reports, texts of speeches and other printed materials. Topics addressed include automobile design and safety; consumer protection; the cooperative movement; insurance reform; and Consumers Union's financial support for Media and Consumer magazine. Correspondents include Colston Warne, Esther Peterson, Persia Campbell, Rhoda Karpatkin, and Sidney Shainwald. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
9.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.12037

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes articles, clippings, correspondence, research reports, texts of speeches and other printed materials. Topics addressed include automobile design and safety; consumer protection; the cooperative movement; insurance reform; and Consumers Union's financial support for Media and Consumer magazine. Correspondents include Colston Warne, Esther Peterson, Persia Campbell, Rhoda Karpatkin, and Sidney Shainwald.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936 as Consumers Union. Walker Sandbach was an activist in the cooperative movement who served as Executive Director of Consumers Union from 1965-1974.

Oswald Walker Sandbach was born in 1916 in Minnesota. He attended the University of Iowa (BA Political Science, 1939) and managed cooperative food stores in the midwestern U.S. from 1939-1947. During that time Sandbach also worked as a teacher and was active in the American Friends Service Committee. From 1947-1965 Sandbach served as General Manager for the Hyde Park Cooperative Society in Chicago. In 1965 he was named Executive Director of Consumers Union, a position he held until 1974 when he left to become the CEO of the National Industries for the Severely Handicapped (NISH). He resigned from NISH in early 1975 and died in May of that year.

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

Processed by Richard Collier, Sept. 2022;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130.

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Administrative and Personal Files; Correspondence and Memoranda; Grants and Fellowships; Media and Consumer.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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