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FILE NAME Jewelers JEWEL DATE 1987 July 26 DOC JEWEL012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter 3367 18th Street NW Washington DC 20010 July 26 1987 Barry Castleman Sc.D. 1722 Linden Avenue Baltimore MD 21217 Dear Barry As we discussed on Friday I am sending yousome materials I gathered for McCune Hiaasen Crum & Gardner of Fort Lauderdale Florida of the Ferris I enclose ~~ McCune Hiaasen's letter and memo describing their case and the research -- My memorandum and what I found letter to the firm detailing -- A copy of an article on workplace hazards that affect jewelry workers from Job Safety and Health -- Selected testimony from a congressional hearing regarding occupational diseases and compensation in the jewelry industry Like the magazine article this testimony includes mentions of asbestos - The 1937 Census of Manufactures for the asbestos products industry This provides a fascinating look at the industry of that time ~- Swartchild & Co. and Becken Book catalogs offering jeweler's supplies made of asbestos After 1958 Becken Books no longer offered jeweler's supplies The library only possessed a couple of years worth of the Swartchild catalog ~~ Copies of advertisements from the principal jewelry trade magazine the Jeweler's Circular- Keystone from 1944 and 1956. After 1956 A. Saunders did not advertise consistently in the JC The final advertisement from not mention asbestos equipment 1956 does I have held onto used that source manufacturers of copies of some issues of Thomas Register I to trace the appearance and disappearance of asbestos products for jewelers I think the research was productive finding several manufacturers still in existence who have sold asbestos products over the years I trust the law firm has the means to show that these manufacturers were aware of the hazards of asbestos that awareness does not matter for the purposes of a or that lawsuit Page 2 Barry Castleman As I told you the length of over time the telephone I was it took me to follow surprised at up all the leads in the library's indexes and catalogs related to this subject But as you have said that is in the nature of this type of project where sleuthing begins with very little background I did enjoy the project and proposed to them that I could follow up a couple more leads with trade associations and jewelers By my standards the project was also lucrative Now I can pay for some repairs on this crazy typewriter Thanks for referring the firm to me I look forward to seeing you in the near future should we find ourselves in the same city And I think I would like to conduct another project like this again soon Sincerely yours Andrew O. Moore