Consumer Reports. Sidney Shainwald papers, 1937-2006
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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. Sidney Shainwald was a accountant who served as Comptroller and later Associate Director of Consumers Union. Collection includes departmental correspondence and memoranda; audits and other financial reports; budget proposals and operating cost estimates; payroll forecasts and reports; publication planning, distribution and promotional campaigns; policy statements and other printed materials. It also includes materials relating to Consumers Union support of the Media and Consumer Foundation's eponymous newsletter. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
- Extent:
- 5.0 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.11928
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection includes departmental correspondence and memoranda; audits and other financial reports; budget proposals and operating cost estimates; payroll forecasts and reports; publication planning, distribution and promotional campaigns; policy statements and other printed materials. It also includes materials relating to Consumers Union support of the Media and Consumer Foundation's eponymous newsletter.
- 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. Sidney Shainwald was a accountant who served as Comptroller and later Associate Director of Consumers Union.
Sidney Shainwald was born in 1917 in Brooklyn. He attended City College of New York, graduating in 1939. In 1937 while still a student, Shainwald joined Consumers Union as the head of the Accounting Department. After serving in the military during World War II, Shainwald began an private accounting practice (1946-1958). He rejoined Consumers Union in 1958 as Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer. Shainwald was named Associate Director in 1971 and served until his retirement in 1982. Shainwald died in 2003 in New York.
- Acquisition information:
- The Consumer Reports. Sidney Shainwald 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 Kristina Thomas, November, 2021
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130
- Arrangement:
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This collection is organized by the following series: Administrative and Personal Files, Finance and Budget Planning, and Media and Consumer.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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