University of Wyoming
Pocketbook news -- Phonograph records -- 33 rpm.
Pocketbook news -- Audio cassettes.
Wilma says -- Audio cassette tapes.
Wilma Soss (1900-1986) was a stockholders' rights advocate for women, publicist, and radio journalist during the twentieth century. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Soss worked as a publicist for a number of well known companies and organizations between the 1920s and 1940s, including Saks Fifth Avenue (1931-1934) and Alfred Dunhill, Limited (1932-1934). She became a women's stockholders' rights advocate during the 1940s and founded the Federation of Women Stockholders in American Business in 1947. To advance the cause of women's economic suffrage, Soss became a well known corporate gadfly and made highly publicized appearances at numerous corporate stockholders meetings between the 1940s and 1980s. Soss was also a well known radio journalist for NBC Radio between the 1950s and 1980s, serving as commentator and financial analyst of "Pocketbook News" (1954-1975) and "Wilma Says" (1975-1980).
Collection contains Wilma Soss' correspondence (business and personal), subject files concerning her work as a women's stockholders' rights advocate (which contain correspondence, clippings, legal documents, financial documents, notes, and printed materials), unpublished manuscripts, speeches, and photographs of Soss and business executives. Collection also contains scripts for "Pocketbook News", 33 rpm records of "Pocketbook News", audio cassette tapes of "Pocketbook News" and "Wilma Says", and a few reel to reel audio tapes (including those of "Pocketbook News" and Women Stockholders in American Business meetings). Several scrapbooks documenting Soss' life and career (including those concerning her work with Saks Fifth Avenue and Alfred Dunhill, Limited), clippings, miscellaneous printed materials, and artifacts are in this collection as well.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Wilma Soss at the date of processing.
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