Home construction and maintenance technical files--building construction and materials, 1930-1981.

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Home construction and maintenance technical files--building construction and materials, 1930-1981.

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The records document Consumers' Research's testing, research, and projects relating to building or repairing a home or parts of a home. Included are correspondence, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, photographs, product literature, test results, operating manuals, advertisements, and purchase orders. Topics include architecture, interior decorating, houses and housing, repairs of houses, mobile homes, building codes, exterior walls, siding, floors and flooring, chimneys, doors, windows, building materials such as wood, epoxy concrete, glass and wall board, roofs, shingles, waterproof preparation, fallout shelters, thermal insulation, cellulose insulation, urea fromaldehyde insulation, wood preservatives, caulking compounds and construction of out-buildings including swimming pools.

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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...