Consumer Reports. Frances Warne papers, 1936-1985 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. Frances Warne was an author, consumer advocate and instructor in home economics and consumer education; co-founder of Consumers Union. The Consumer Reports Frances Warne papers include clippings, correspondence, book manuscripts and drafts, course notes and other printed materials. The bulk of the collection pertains to "Wise Buymanship", a home economics and consumer education manual produced for the YWCA. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
1.0 Linear Foot
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11797

Background

Scope and content:

The Consumer Reports Frances Warne papers include clippings, correspondence, book manuscripts and drafts, course notes and other printed materials. The bulk of the collection pertains to "Wise Buymanship", a home economics and consumer education manual produced for the YWCA.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Frances Warne was an author, consumer advocate and instructor in home economics and consumer education; co-founder of Consumers Union.

Frances Lee Corbett was born in West Virginia in 1898 and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. She obtained an A.B. from Cornell University and a M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She married Colston E. Warne in 1920 and the two formed part of the group that founded Consumers Union in 1936. Frances Warne served as an instructor in consumer economics, consumer education and home economics at the University of Massachusetts. She was author of "Wise Buymanship" a manual of consumer education produced by Consumers Union for the YWCA. Frances Warne died in Massachusetts in 1982.

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

Processed by Richard Collier, Jan. 2020;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: Book Files; Personal and Professional Files.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Women consumers -- United States
Consumers
consumer protection
Consumer advocacy
Home economics -- United States -- History
Names:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
YWCA of the U.S.A.
Warne, Frances Lee Corbett

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