Guide to the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Automobile Industry NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Automobile Vanessa Broussard-Simmons and Nicole Blechynden 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 note............................................................................................................ 3 Brand name index............................................................................................................ 3 Scope and Contents note................................................................................................ 2 Scope and Contents note................................................................................................ 2 Scope and Content Note on Oversized Material............................................................. 3 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 6 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 7 Subseries : Manufacturers and Dealers of Automobiles.......................................... 7 Subseries : Manufacturers and Dealers of Automotive Parts and Accessories...... 22 Subseries : Clubs and Associations....................................................................... 30 Subseries : Related Publications, circa 1896-1950................................................ 35 Subseries : Oversize.............................................................................................. 40 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Automobile Industry NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Automobile Collection Overview Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Automobile Industry Identifier: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Automobile Date: circa 1860-1967 Extent: 12.49 Cubic feet (consisting of 24 boxes, 2 half boxes, 4 folder, 18 oversize folders, 3 flat boxes (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: Automobile Industry 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: Automobile Industry Content: Administrative Information Acquisition Information Automobile Industry 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 45 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Automobile Industry NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Automobile • Series 2: Other Collection Divisions • Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers • Series 4: Photographic Reference Material Preferred Citation Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Automobile Industry, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Restrictions Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition. 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 dates from the late nineteenth and early twentith century and consists primarily of catalogues, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, printed advertisements (particularly from Town and Country), instruction manuals, periodicals, newspaper clippings, handbooks, pamphlets, company histories, photographs, caricatures, road maps, tour guides, tickets, membership cards, and articles and books--mostly from manufacturers and dealers of automobiles. A large amount of the material is from pioneer manufacturers including Ford., Reo, Duryea, Packard, Auburn, Studebaker, Hupmobile, Franklin, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobiles, and Buick. There is a substantial amount of material from manufacturers and dealers of parts and accessories for automobiles which include horns, tires, windshield wipers, paints, autometers, springs, automobile tops, telephones, chains, clocks, heaters, transmissions ' carburetors, engines, spark plugs, anti-freeze, license plates and gasoline. Samples of permits, operator's licenses, titles, registrations and traffic rules and regulations are also documented. Companies that provide services such as car rentals, garages and maintenance of automobiles are also included. There are a number of images of automobiles, including photographs and illustrations in catalogues which document the developement of automobiles. Images include: Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jay Gould, John Jacob Astor, the Vanderbilts and their cars. Scope and Contents Series 1: Manufacturers and Dealers of AutomobilesandSeries 2: Manufacturers and Dealers of Automotive Parts and Accessoriesare arranged alphabetically by name of company.Series 4: Related Publicationscontains periodicals which relate directly to the automobile industry and are arranged alphabetically by name of publication. The images inSeries 5: General Worksare arranged by type (i.e. photographs, caricatures). This series also includes applications for operators' licenses and permits, titles for automobiles, registrations, traffic legislation, traffic rules and regulations, patents, information from insurance, car rental, taxi service, and limousine service companies, schools, various clubs and associations, museums, and shows. The general materials are arranged by type and clubs and associations are organized alphabetically by name. Page 2 of 45 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Automobile Industry NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Automobile Series 4: Related Publications, ca. 1896-1950, contains publications including pamphlets, reports, books and periodicals of general interest. Articles from Town and Country are numerous, and other magazines are represented. The articles cover a variety of topics including automobile racing (1906), the development of the automobile (1903), women as motorists (1906), types of imported automobiles (1907), legal rights of automobilists (1904), automobiling as a sport (1926), insuring automobilists (1907), building motor parkways (1908), closed automobiles for winter traveling (1909), winter coats for motoring (1904) and taxi cabs replacing the hansom (1907). The articles are arranged alphabetically by name of magazine and then chronologically by date. Business cards, blotters, trip passes, fabric samples, stock cuts, newspaper clippings, abstracts of papers, reports, guide books, miscellaneous correspondence and pamphlets are also well documented. Handbooks, manuals and books covering mostly the history of the automobile but also maintenance and tour guides and maps are arranged alphabetically by location. Scope and Content Note on Oversized Material The oversize materials primarily consist of printed advertisements and other promotional materials, including in-house publications, brochures, and catalogs for automobile manufacturers and dealers. Some material was created by dealers of automobile parts and accessories, including motor clothing. Several general images of automobiles, articles, and printed ads for automobile publications are also available as well as some correspondence and periodicals related to automobile clubs and correspondence associations. Materials are arranged alphabetically by company or by publication and follow the same order of the vertical file materials. Arrangement The collection is divided into five series: • Series 1, Manufacturers and Dealers of Automobiles • Series 2, Manufacturers and Dealers of Automotive Parts and Accessories • Series 3, Miscellaneous Materials, undated • Series 4, Related Publications, circa 1896-1950; • Series 5, General