Harvey Washington Wiley papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Food law and legislation; Chautauquas; Food adulteration and inspection; Drugs; Law and legislation; United States; United States. Bureau of Chemistry; Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.).; Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.). Bureau of Food, Sanitation, and Health
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, lectures, essays, articles, legal records, clippings, printed matter, maps, blueprints, graphs, tables, photographs, and other papers relating to Wiley's life and career as a chemist.  Documents his years as student and educator; chief of the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry (1883-1912;) lecturer on the Chautauqua circuit; and head of the Bureau of Food, Sanitation, and Health of the Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.).  Includes material pertaining to his work which culminated in passage of the U.S. Food and Drugs Act (1906).
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Anna Kelton Wiley, 1952-1956.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Chemist, educator, lecturer, and author.

Collection material in English.

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