National Noise Abatement Council.
National Noise Abatement Council records, 1940-1963.
Minutes; correspondence; financial reports; bylaws; newsletters; pamphlets; press releases. Contains the 1940 memorandum by Sam L. Hooper requesting authorization of funds that led to the establishment of the Council. The bulk of the collection consists of minutes of the annual meetings (1951-1960) and of the board of directors (1950-1961), correspondence of the executive secretaries, Wallace Waterfall (secretary 1951-1957, treasurer 1954-1961) and Leroy J. Buttolph (secretary 1957-1961), primarily about memberships and the Council's dissolution, treasurer's reports (1947-1961), auditor's reports (1957-1961), newsletters (1956-1960), public relations materials including pamphlets and brochures designed for the general public on noise reduction, and press releases about Council activities.
The Council was set up in 1940 when Noise Abatement Week was authorized and incorporated in 1941. Its purpose was to promote a national consciousness of the need for noise abatement and control; to publicize the causes and costs of noise and its harmful effects on individual health and efficiency; to publicize and disseminate information to the public concerning the advantages and benefits of quiet and the ways and means for controlling and abating objectionable noise on city streets and in public places, in factories, offices, schools, and homes. The Council was dissolved in 1961.
Buttolph, Leroy J.
Hooper, Sam L.
Waterfall, Wallace., 1900-1974.
Noise control -- Public relations.
Noise control -- Societies, etc.
Noise pollution
Sound
Sound.
AIP-ICOS
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