Audio-visual collection, [ca. 1940]-1986.

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Audio-visual collection, [ca. 1940]-1986.

Films, audio tapes, and video tapes produced by Consumers Union, other agencies, or taken from radio and television broadcasts. Subjects include operations at Consumers Union, food buying, packaging, fallout contamination in milk, car safety, car buying, the National Symposium on the Consumer Movement, 1973, credit, life insurance, the 50th anniversary of Consumers Union, 1986, and lectures by Colston Warne on the history of the consumer movement, 1977.

ca. 12 linear ft.

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Consumers Union of United States. Archives.

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Warne, Colston E. (Colston Estey), 1900-1987

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Economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Colston E. Warne : oral history, 1971-1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269254307 Warne, professor of economics at Amherst College, was the first president of Consumers Union, holding office from 1936 to 1980. From the description of Papers, 1910-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155541379 ...