Consumer Reports. William S. Taylor papers, 1932-1973 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. William Sentman Taylor was professor of psychology at Smith College and active in cooperative societies in the Northampton, Mass. area. The William S. Taylor papers include correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, business papers, committee reports and other printed materials that relate primarily to the operation and administrative activities of the Northampton Consumers Association and its relations with other regional consumer groups and cooperative societies. Topics include consumer education and protection, cooperative-run enterprises including book clubs and mail order. Organizations represented include Consumers' Research, the Eastern Cooperative League and Springfield Consumers Cooperative. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11824

Background

Scope and content:

The William S. Taylor papers include correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, business papers, committee reports and other printed materials that relate primarily to the operation and administrative activities of the Northampton Consumers Association and its relations with other regional consumer groups and cooperative societies. Topics include consumer education and protection, cooperative-run enterprises including book clubs and mail order. Organizations represented include Consumers' Research, the Eastern Cooperative League and Springfield Consumers Cooperative.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. William Sentman Taylor was professor of psychology at Smith College and active in cooperative societies in the Northampton, Mass. area.

William Sentman Taylor was born in 1894 in New Jersey. He attended Gettysburg College (BS 1916), Harvard (MA 1920, PhD 1921) and the University of Wisconsin (MS 1923). Taylor served as professor and department head of philosophy at the University of Maine (1923-1926) before joining the psychology department at Smith College in 1926, where he taught until retiring in 1962. He died in 1976. A specialist in abnormal psychology, Taylor published a number of books and articles as W.S. Taylor. Smith College currently awards in his honor the William Sentman Taylor Prize for "significant work in human values, a quest for truth, beauty and goodness in the arts and sciences" to a student annually.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. William S. Taylor 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: General files; Northampton Consumers Association

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Subjects:
Consumer advocacy
Consumer education
consumer protection
Cooperative societies -- New York (State)
Names:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
Consumers' Research, Inc.
Taylor, W.S. (William Sentman), 1894-1976

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