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Guide to the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods Guide to the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry Nicole Blechynden and Vanessa Broussard-Simmons Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF). 1999, Revised 2017 Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 3 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 4 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 5 Subseries : Business Records and Marketing Material, 1768-1973......................... 5 Subseries : Catalogues, 1887-1975..................................................................... 210 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry Collection Overview Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods Identifier: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry Date: 1768-1973 Extent: 37.8 Cubic feet (consisting of 76 boxes (including 12 off-site), 12 folders, 16 oversize folders, 7 flat boxes (6 full, 1 partial), plus digital images of some collection material. ) Creator: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969 Language: English . Summary: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Dry Goods forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Digital Image(s): Warshaw Subject Category: Dry Goods Content: Administrative Information Acquisition Information Dry Goods is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased. Materials in the Archives Center Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404) Forms Part Of Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. • Series 1: Business Ephemera Page 1 of 218 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry • Series 2: Other Collection Divisions • Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers • Series 4: Photographic Reference Material Processing Information In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History implemented the use of minimal level processing standards to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections. Arrangement and housing (box and folder) was previously completed by the Archives Center Staff in conjunction with the development of the original guide. Non-archival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. There is no Box 45. Boxes 46-57 are off-site and were not physically assessed in the 2017 processing effort but the contents list from the original inventory were encoded and included in the EAD finding aid. For all other boxes and oversize material, folder contents were verified, the scope and content note was enhanced, folder-level description was completed. Some rehousing and a small amount of arrangement was done on select portions of the main content of this subject. A significant amount of additional material was processed and added to this subject as a result of the 2016/17 minimal level processing effort. A machine-readable, encoded finding aid was created by Nicole Blechynden, 2017 August. Processing Information In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History implemented the use of minimal level processing standards to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections. A large portion of stored material from the original acquisition received minimal level processing, which resulted in additions to this Subject category. This effort included basic arrangement and replacement of non-archival housing for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Revisions to the encoded finding aid were made to reflect the added content in context to the previously processed material. Minimal level processing and enhancement of the machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, September 2017. Preferred Citation Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Restrictions Collection is open for research but the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs are stored off-site and are restricted due to fragile condition. Researchers should consult microfilm in NMAH library for 1880-1983 editions, drawer 692. Some additional items may be restricted due to fragile condition. Contact the Archives Center for information at [email protected] or 202-633-3270. Page 2 of 218 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Dry Conditions Governing Use Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Scope and Contents This material consists primarily of scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, bills/receipts, printed advertisements, trade catalogs, handbills, pamphlets, advertising cards , photographs, cloth samples , leaflets, books, prospectus, order forms, chromolithographs, magazine advertisements, seals, postcards, business cards, children's books, greeting cards, almanacs, calendars, cardboard standups, fans, paper bag samples and import/export documents from businesses referred to loosely as department or variety stores. A number of these stores are still in business and tend to have a substantial amount of material . Such companies include I. Magnin, R. H. Macy, Woodward & Lothrop, F. H. Woolworth's, Sears, Roebuck & Company , Montgomery Wards, Wanamaker, etc. There are a few references to businesses who imported English, French, German, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, Sudanese, Persian and Moorish articles. Generally the stores included among these materials sold a variety of products consisting of clothing and clothing accessories, home furnishings, home construction kits, novelties, stationery , groceries and a number of other products sold in contemporary department and variety stores. There are also companies that specialized in a particular product or type of product. Researchers interested in these businesses should also consult the same subject category if it is included on the listing of vertical document boxes. It is also possible that if the company produced oversize catalogs these would be listed with the Warshaw Collection oversize materials. For example, there are a number of Montgomery Wards, Butler Brothers, Bellas Hess and Company and Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs found among the oversize materials. There are a number of images that appear on these materials. Most of these images tend to be illustrations of the exterior or interior departments of the stores . Product illustrations also appear throughout the catalogues, printed advertisements and price lists. Ethnic images particularly in French advertisements also appear regularly. Dry goods stores relied heavily on advertisements directed toward children especially during the Christmas/holiday season. Books for children illustrating characters from favorite stories or Christmas scenes are common among the larger stores namely Woodward & Lothrop. Materials in boxes one through thirty-nine are organized by name of company. Publications that discuss the history of a particular company are included with the company related materials. Catalogues , calendars , almanacs and price lists are generally listed under the company name in the finding aid with dates . This is due to the fact that these materials are often
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