George Humphreys Tichenor III Personal Papers, 1938-1961
Collection Number: 5239

Includes routine correspondence, reprints of articles, and newspaper clippings relating to the following issues: consumer and housing cooperatives; the role of labor unions in the cooperative movement; prospective new housing cooperatives to be built in New York City; support of the cooperative movement for the Tennessee Valley Authority; the financial condition of the Cooperator, organ of the Eastern Cooperative League; the economic condition of the hat and cap industry; the problems of small, economically marginal operations in the hat industry; the use of polls for discerning trends in consumer buying habits and public opinion in local elections; the role of labor in politics; the impact of tariffs on foreign imports of hats; the Taft-Hartley Act; support for the Liberal Party in New York; the impact of inflation on the cooperative movement; the American Labor Health Association; competition in the insurance industry; the contributions of Edward A. Filene to the credit union movement; the League of Nations; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; consumer cooperatives; significant innovations in the retail distribution field; costs of medical care; anti-Semitism; and communism.

Also contains numerous reprints, rough drafts, newspaper clippings, and routine correspondence relating to Tichenor's various journalistic efforts.

The collection consists of part of his personal papers. The union publications he edited will be found in the ILR Library and the Cooperator in Mann Library.