Consumer Reports Books records, 1938-1995

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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. Consumer Reports Books is responsible for publishing buyers' guides and other subject-based books relating to consumer education and public interest issues. The Consumer Reports Books records include catalogs of offerings; correspondence relating to various publications; requests for reprints; drafts of book projects and other printed materials. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
6.0 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11864

Background

Scope and content:

The Consumer Reports Books records include catalogs of offerings; correspondence relating to various publications; requests for reprints; drafts of book projects and other printed materials.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Consumer Reports Books is responsible for publishing buyers' guides and other subject-based books relating to consumer education and public interest issues.

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

Processed by Richard Collier, Dec. 2020;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series: General Administrative Files; Correspondence; Directors and Editors Files; The Medicine Show

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Consumer education
Consumer advocacy
consumer protection
Book industries and trade
Book editors -- United States -- Correspondence
Publishers and publishing
Names:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History

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[Identification of item], Consumer Reports Books records, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.