The Nancy Harvey Steorts & Associates Series consists of addresses, agendas, articles, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, press releases, programs, reports, speeches, statements, and testimonies.

Materials in this series cover the period 1963-1981. The bulk of the materials dates from 1973 to 1981 and documents the consumer affairs consulting firm she formed in the Washington, D.C. area after leaving the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February 1977.

The series is arranged alphabetically by folder title and chronologically within each folder.

Correspondence relating to Nancy Harvey Steorts’ search for positions in the private and government sectors, especially that relating to her quest to be a Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, are filed in this series. In addition, there are letters pertaining to speaking engagements with organizations such as the American Program Bureau, Inc., the International Platform Association, and the Society of Flavor Chemists, Inc.; congratulatory and appreciation letters; and several letters which deal with Steorts testifying before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the Committee on Agriculture in regard to nutrition education. The series also contains speech background materials which include copies of addresses, speeches, statements and testimonies given by various individuals, as well as clippings, newsletters and notes

There are files relating to dietary guidelines which contain clippings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches and statements, newsletters, as well as a few letters and pamphlets, notes, and a U.S.D.A. press release. A number of the statements relate to a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on February 20, 1980. Related materials on nutrition education and food labeling include statements and testimonies given by Steorts and other individuals before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Trade Commission on September 27-29, 1978.

Procter & Gamble was one of Steorts’ clients, so there are materials relating to the centennial of Procter & Gamble’s Ivory Soap filed in the series. Steorts did a market-by-market tour of the country to advertise their product. The files contain correspondence, clippings, tour schedules, information bulletins and fact sheets about the history of Ivory Soap. There are also booklets on marketing and twenty-seven photographs of different commercial advertisements of Ivory Soap throughout its history. In addition, there is a press kit which contains Steorts’ agenda, tour schedule and notes.

Finally, information concerning saccharin can be found in this series. The files contain statements given by Steorts and other individuals before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the U.S. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce on March 21, 1977, and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food Drug Administration, on May 18-19, 1977. In addition, there are articles, clippings, newsletters and notes, as well as press releases by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Department of Agriculture and two reports by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.