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Virginia Home Economics Association. Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods

 Organization

Historical Note

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.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1963-001
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and reports of the Virginia Home Economics Association: Committee for the Standardization of Consumer Goods Records.

Dates: 1930 - 1936