Research


Scope and Content Note

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, flyers, press releases, minutes, booklets, schedules, lists, and other records relating to the New York State Fair. From 1955 to 1958, the Consumer Counsel was an "Ex Officio" member of the State Fair Advisory Board and also a consultant to the Women's Division of the Fair. Many of these records relate to the booths, exhibits, and demonstrations put on by the Office of the Consumer Counsel at the Fair and other exhibits and demonstrations at the Fair which were of interest to the consumer. Among the records are flyers relating to consumer affairs which were released by the Office of the Consumer Counsel, skits, pamphlets relating to the reading of labels and "labels and the law," scattered minutes of the meetings of the State Fair Advisory Board and the Women's Division of the Fair, radio and T.V. scripts of "There Oughta Be a Law," and schedules and lists of demonstrations.

There is a large amount of correspondence between Dr. Harold Wattel, Consultant to the Consumer Counsel, and Marion R. Devine, of the Consumer Counsel's staff, and correspondence between the Consumer Counsel and Dr. Wattel. There is also a large amount of Consumer Counsel's correspondence with women's and consumers' groups as well as with New York State government departments and agencies.