National Consumers' League records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Reformers; Social security; Child labor; Consumers; Public health; Law and legislation; Equal rights amendments; National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor (U.S.); United States; Constitutional amendments; Hours of labor; Public welfare; Wages; Working class; Consumers' leagues; Migrant labor
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, speeches, project and program files, legal files, scrapbooks, printed material, miscellany, and other records relating to the league's efforts towards reform in public health, consumer protection, public welfare, and fair labor standards.  Topics include child labor, the Equal Rights Amendment, the Fair Labor Standards Act, migratory labor, the National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor, social security, and wage and hour standards.  Includes material relating to the activities of chartered local and state leagues.  Prominent persons represented in the records include Grace Abbott, Mary Anderson, Newton Diehl Baker, Elizabeth Brandeis, Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns, John Rogers Commons, Mabel Cory Costigan, Molly Dewson, Paul Howard Douglas, Josephine Clara Goldmark, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark, Eleanor M. Hadley, Alice Hamilton, Dorothy Smith McAllister, Esther Peterson, Frances Perkins, Jeannette Rankin, Josephine A. Roche, John Augustine Ryan, John Gilbert Winant, Edwin E. Witte, Florence Richardson Wyckoff, and Susanna P. Zwemer.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,509.

In part, photocopies and transcripts. [S.l.].

Microfilm produced from original papers on radium poisoning. [S.l.].

Private

Gift, Susanna P. Zwemer and other league officials, 1957-1986.

Gift, Richard A. Swemer, 1959.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Organization founded in 1899 to monitor the conditions under which goods were manufactured and distributed.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.