I don't yet have a reference, but it seems that the result was first proved by Fichtenholz and Sierpiński, independently from each other. This should be mentioned in a remark to Problem 12 in: > R. Sikorski, *Real Functions, Vol. 1*, PWN: Warsaw, 1958 (in Polish), at least according to the historical remark on p. 28 in: > P. Lorenc and R. Wituła, *Darboux property of the nonatomic $\sigma$-additive positive and finite dimensional vector measures*, Matematyka Stosowana **3** (2013), 25-36. Unfortunately, I couldn't retrieve either a hard copy of Sikorski's book or simply a scan of the relevant page(s). **Update (Nov 27, 2015).** Thanks to [Martin Sleziak][M] and [Jacek Jendrej][J], I found out that the "remark to Problem 12" referred to by Lorenc and Wituła is actually a footnote on p. 225 of Sikorski's book. Now, Problem 12 reads (caveat: the translation is mine and may not be very precise, as my Polish is null), "Let $\mu$ be a non-atomic measure and let $0 < s < \mu(A) < \infty$. Then, there exists $B \subseteq A$ such that $\mu(B) = s$", so we are really talking of Theorem 1 in the OP. And the footnote on p. 225 does make reference to "Sierpiński [7] and Fichtenholz [1]". But the copy of Sikorski's book I could retrieve is incomplete and doesn't include the bibliography... Could anyone having access to a complete copy fill in this answer? [M]: http://mathoverflow.net/users/8250/martin-sleziak [J]: http://www.polytechnique.edu/annuaire/fr/users/1926115521/jacek.jendrej