Home construction and maintenance technical files--pest control, 1928-1981.

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Home construction and maintenance technical files--pest control, 1928-1981.

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The records document Consumers' Research's testing, research, and projects relating to the eradication of vermin such as insects and rodents. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, product literature, test results, operating manuals, advertisements, and purchase orders. Topics include eradication of vermin; household, chemical, aerosol, and halogenated insecticides; insect vaporizers; mosquito repellents; eradication of insects such as mosquitos, silverfish, roaches, crickets, bedbugs, beetles, flies, moths, ants, and rodents (mousetraps). Also included are several files on controversial insecticides such as DDT and Lindane.

2.5 cubic ft.

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...