National Consumers' League creator mixed material monographic eng 81,500 178 127 72.6 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. 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 Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Cassette sound recordings 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 and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011241 Abbott, Grace 1878-1939 Anderson, Mary 1872-1964 Baker, Newton Diehl 1871-1937 Berry, Raymond H Raushenbush, Elizabeth Brandeis Burns, Eveline M. (Eveline Mabel) 1900-1985 Commons, John R. (John Rogers) 1862-1945 Costigan, Mabel Cory approximately 1873-1951 Dewson, Molly 1874-1962 Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard) 1892-1976 Goldmark, Josephine 1877-1950 Goldmark, Pauline 1874-1962 Hadley, Eleanor M Hamilton, Alice 1869-1970 McAllister, Dorothy Smith 1899-1983 Peterson, Esther 1906-1997 Perkins, Frances 1880-1965 Rankin, Jeannette 1880-1973 Roche, Josephine A. (Josephine Aspinwall) 1886-1976 Ryan, John A. (John Augustine) 1869-1945 Winant, John G. (John Gilbert) 1889-1947 Witte, Edwin E. (Edwin Emil) 1887-1960 Wyckoff, Florence 1905-1983 Zwemer, Susanna P. (Susanna Peirce) 1895-1992 United States. National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor (U.S.) Child labor Consumers Consumers' leagues Equal rights amendments Hours of labor Migrant labor Public health Public welfare Reformers Social security United States Wages Working class Law and legislation Constitutional amendments United States mm 80034215 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0022/ hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011241 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011241.3 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0022/ http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011241 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011241.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 820126 20260227111704.0 mm 80034215