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Manuscript/Mixed Material Harvey Wiley Letter to President Coolidge on Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Laws to Protect Consumers.

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Title

  • Harvey Wiley Letter to President Coolidge on Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Laws to Protect Consumers.

Names

  • Wiley, Harvey W.

Created / Published

  • 1925

Headings

  • -  Consumer protection
  • -  Business
  • -  Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
  • -  Law and legislation
  • -  Food law and legislation
  • -  Drugs
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Mimeographed series of typed letters, in the style of a briefing book, outlining the federal government's lax enforcement of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. It is not clear in what sense this letter "was never sent," as a handwritten note on the mimeograph packet specifies. The fact that the materials in the Anna Kelton Wiley Papers are mimeographed may suggest that they were circulated as an "open letter." Dr. Harvey Wiley was prime mover behind passage of the pure food and drug laws in 1906, when he served as Chief Chemist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Also included in the portfolio are letters reviewing the history of a number of lawsuits against the manufacturers of such food additives as caffeine in Coca Cola, bleach in flour made by Gold Medal, and artificial sweeteners such as saccharin. Dr. Wiley's letter, a summary of the documents that accompanied it, and an abbreviated version of the government's response were published in two issues of the mass-market consumer magazine Good Housekeeping, for whose Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health Dr. Wiley served as editor. Entire folder selected: 100 pages.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Container 118
  • Folder: Letter from Dr. Harvey Wiley to President Coolidge, 1925.

Source Collection

  • Anna Kelton Wiley papers.

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Chicago citation style:

Wiley, Harvey W. Harvey Wiley Letter to President Coolidge on Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Laws to Protect Consumers. 1925. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mss45682_01/.

APA citation style:

Wiley, H. W. (1925) Harvey Wiley Letter to President Coolidge on Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Laws to Protect Consumers. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mss45682_01/.

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Wiley, Harvey W. Harvey Wiley Letter to President Coolidge on Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Laws to Protect Consumers. 1925. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/mss45682_01/>.