Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Stadardization of Consumer Goods
Scope and Content
This collection consists of correspondence and reports from 1930 to 1936 of Ilena M. Bailey, home economics researcher at Virginia Tech and chairperson of the Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods. Materials include correspondence with department store managers, government agencies and women's organizations.
Dates
- Creation: 1930 - 1936
Creator
- Bailey, Ilena M. (Person)
- Virginia Home Economics Association. Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods (Organization)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records must be obtained from the Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Information
In the early twentieth-century, seven women including Mary Ledger Moffett founded the Virginia Home Economics Association. This organization's Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods, chaired during the 1930s by Ilena M. Bailey, focused on the creation of quality standards for products such as blankets, sheets, pillowcases, stockings, canned food, and refrigerators.
Full Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence and reports of the Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated in 1963
General Physical Description note
1 Folder, 0.1 cu. ft.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records commenced in September 2006 and was completed in 2006.
Subject
- Title
- A Guide to the Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records, 1930-1936
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sam Walters
- Date
- © 2006 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu