Gwen J. Bymers papers, [ca.1930]-2002.
Collection Number: 23-18-1787
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Gwen J. Bymers papers, [ca.1930]-2002.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-18-1787
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, 1960-1976; historical material, ca.1935-1973; and other miscellaneous
papers reflecting Bymers' career as a professor of consumer economics.
Creator:
Bymers, Gwen J., 1915-
Quanitities:
4.1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor emeritus of consumer economics, Cornell University.
Gwen Bymers was born on June 15, 1915. During World War II she joined the Women's
Army Corp and after the war, through the GI Bill, obtained her B.A. degree from the
University of North Dakota in 1946 and her Ph.D. in economics from U.C.L.A. in 1958.
In 1956 Bymers came to Cornell to become an assistant professor in the Dept. of Household
Economics and Management. In 1969 she became chair of the newly formed Dept. of Consumer
Economics and Public Policy, a position she held for seven years. Gwen Bymers retired
in 1977.
Includes correspondence, 1960-1976; historical material, ca.1935-1973; publications,
photographs, and other papers reflecting Bymers' career as a professor of consumer
economics and her work in Ghana.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Gwen J. Bymers papers, #23-18-1787. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
See also collections #23-2-2817 and #47-10-3394 for additional biographical information.
Names:
Bymers, Gwen J., 1915-
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Places:
Ghana -- Study and teaching.
Subjects:
Economics.
Consumers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1963 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
|
1964 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1965 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
|
1966 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence concerning letter written to AFA
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1966 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
|
1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1968 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
|
1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
|
1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
|
1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence - resumes
|
1970-1979 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence
|
1970-1989 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
|
1970-1999 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence
|
1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
|
1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence
|
1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Correspondence
|
1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence - sabbatical
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1971-1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence
|
1972 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence
|
1972 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence
|
1972 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Correspondence
|
1972 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Correspondence - sabbatical
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1972-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence - sabbatical
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1972-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Correspondence - Sabbatical
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1972-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence - sabbatical
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1972-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence - Sabbatical
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1972-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence - sabbatical
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1972-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1973 |
Scope and Contents
Fall
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1973-1974 |
Scope and Contents
Winter
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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Spring 1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Fall
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1974 |
Scope and Contents
Fall
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
|
1975 |
Scope and Contents
Winter
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
|
1975 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
|
1975 |
Scope and Contents
Summer
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
|
1975 |
Scope and Contents
Fall
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
|
1975 |
Scope and Contents
Fall
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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Spring 1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence
|
1976 |
Scope and Contents
Spring
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence
|
1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
|
1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence
|
1976 |
Scope and Contents
Fall
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
|
1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence
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1980-1989 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Pan Am field study correspondence
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1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Department memos
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1973-1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Memos to Department of Consumer Economics and Public Policy
|
1976-1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Memos and documents regarding Babcock Professorship
|
1977 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Miscellaneous memos
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1970-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Miscellaneous memos
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1970-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Letters from Africa
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1972-09-1973-04 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Finland
|
1978 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Australia and New Zealand
|
1982 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence concerning Gwen's PhD at UCLA
|
1950-1956 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence from Gwen
|
1946-1972 |
Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence to Gwen
|
1980, 1995-2002 |
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Memos
|
1970-1979 |
Series II. Department and Course Material
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Household Economics and Management policy issues
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1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Consumer Economics and Public Policy - policy issues
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Sale of 1069 Taughannock Blvd. to Cornell
|
1985 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Certificate of appreciation - Joint Council on Economic Education
|
1984 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Documents regarding Better Business Bureau
|
1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Documents concerning cooperation between Consumer Economics an New York Attorney General
|
1974-1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Quality and credit work - correspondence with Osborne from the Federal Reserve Board
|
1964-1966 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Credit risk material - Sylvia Lane correspondence
|
1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Consumer legislative issues
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1972-1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
College reorganization - reports
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1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
College reorganization - reports
|
1966-1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
College study report - memos, correspondence
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1966-1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
College focus - college name committee minutes
|
1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
HEM 698 - Household Economics and Housing; course work, documents
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
HEM 698 coursework and documents
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Box 3 | Folder 16 |
AHEA - accreditation documents for undergraduate programs in home economics
|
1971 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Department meeting agendas
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1971-1972 |
Series III. Research and Consumer Education
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Box 3 | Folder 18 |
State Project #72 "Financial Position or Vulnerability Status of Consumer Installment
Borrowers"
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1956-1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Field Study documents
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Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Study 690 Survey of Consumer Finances
|
1973-1975 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Milk Study - Hatch 210
|
1957-1958 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Consumer Economics and Public Policy Field Study
|
1976 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Research - food marketing practices among O.A.S.I. recipients schedules
|
1957-1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Research - food marketing practices among O.S.A.I. recipients, correspondence
|
1958-1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Household Economics and Management, State Project #72, correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 26 |
State Project #72 - correspondence
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1965-1967 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Standardization - publications
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1920-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Bad examples of writing
|
1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Consumer education - historical material
|
1920-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Consumer education - historical material
|
1920-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Consumer education - historical material
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1930-1939 |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Consumer education - historical material
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1930-1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Consumer education - historical material
|
1940-1959 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Extension consumer education - material from Mary Wood
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1970-1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Extension consumer education - New York City
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1970-1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Extension consumer education guidelines - 4H
|
1970-1979 |
Series IV. Committees, Workshops, and Seminars
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Workshop on dissemination of consumer information in the Department of Economics and
Household Management
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1957 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Salzburg seminar - proposal to have seminar on home economics - attempt failed
|
1963-1964 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Family Economic Concepts Committee
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1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Family Economic Concepts Committee
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1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Rationality question and Home Economics and Management Department
|
1965 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Institute of Life Insurance Steering Committee that led to Williamsburg meeting -
correspondence
|
1971 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
New York State Woman's Council
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1970-1971 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
American Council on Consumer Interests - Dallas conference
|
1972 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
American Home Economics Association - summary of Lake Placid Conference, questions
to consider
|
1973-1974 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Lake Placid Conference
|
1973 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
NYSHEA meeting - round table discussion
|
1974 |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
NYSHEA questions and answers
|
1974 |
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Consumers in common institute
|
1974 |
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Business Industry Education Council activities
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1974-1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Business Industry Education Council documents (Business Industry Education)
|
1974-1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Consumer economics convening
|
1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Omicron Nu involvement
|
1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
The Institute of Life Insurance Seminar
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1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Annual institute of New York State College of Human Ecology
|
1976 |
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Legislative workshop
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1977 |
Series V. Speeches, Talks, and Papers
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Idea folder
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Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Speeches and talks
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1960-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Speeches and talks
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1960-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Speeches and talks
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1960-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Speeches and talks
|
1960-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Outline for consumer economics seminar
|
1964 |
Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Speeches
|
1970-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Speeches
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1970-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Speeches and papers
|
1970-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 30 |
Speeches and papers
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1970-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 31 |
Talks
|
1980-1989 |
Box 4 | Folder 32 |
"Food Marketing Practices of Older Households," "What is Consumer Education?" "New
Trends in Consumer Goods Marketing that Affect the Homemaker"
|
1959-1960 |
Box 4 | Folder 33 |
"Publications"
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1960-1969 |
Box 4 | Folder 34 |
"The Consumer Movement and Consumer Education in the U.S."
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Box 4 | Folder 35 |
"American Council on Consumer Interests"
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1970-1979 |
Box 4 | Folder 36 |
"The Consumer in the Ghanaian Economy" by Florence Sai and Gwen Bymers, never published
|
1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Continued - Ghanaian economy
|
1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 38 |
Continued - Ghanaian economy
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1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 39 |
Continued - Ghanaian economy
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1975 |
Box 4 | Folder 40 |
"The Grooming and Function of the Consumer Affairs Professional" sponsored by Corning
Glass Works
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1978-05 |
Box 4 | Folder 41 |
"Time Commitment and Financial Position of Installment Debtors"
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1963 |
Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Time Horizons in Family Spending or A Study of Household Investments"
|
1968 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
"Consumerism" (1979); "Economic Theory and its Relevance to Home Management and Family
Economics" (1968)and "Statement" (1974)
|
1968-1979 |
Box 5 | Folder 8 |
"Consumer Economics at Cornell: A Chronicle"
|
1979 |
Series VI. Photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 43 |
"Walk by Wood" ladies-Gwen Bymers, Katy Walker, Mary Wood
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Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Photos taken at Kendal
|
2000-2001 |
Series VII. Biographical Material
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
High school graduation program
|
1932 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Job offer telegram
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1936 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Trip itinerary
|
1973 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Academic course work; song from retirement party; funeral program
|
2001 |
Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Articles about Gwen
|
1967-1975 |