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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Laundry Machinery and Accessories

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Brand Name Index
Brand Name :: Company Name :: Type of Product A.B.C. :: Altorfer Bros. Co. Washer & :: Wringer American :: George C. Paine :: Ironing Table Anchor :: Lovell Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Anchor :: Metropolitan Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Atlantic :: M. A. Caldwell :: Washer Bay State :: John C. Clapp :: Wringer Boss :: Foley & William Mfg. Co. :: Washer Boss :: Keystone Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Brass King :: National Washboard Co. :: Wringer Challenge :: S. W. Palmer & Co. :: Washer Conqueror :: Oliver Ames & Sons :: Wringer Conqueror :: Charles W. Bassett :: Wringer Crescent :: Saginsaw Mfg. Co. :: Washboard Crown :: American Machine Co. :: Iron Crown :: George Starrett :: Iron Doty's :: Metropolitan Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Eagle :: Sterling Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Easy :: Syracuse Washing Machine Co. :: Washer Eclipse :: Aetna Iron Co. :: Iron Eclipse :: Metropolitan Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Elite :: Ellerman's :: Washer Favorite :: R. M. Ball :: Washer Metropolitan :: American Wringer Co. :: Mangles Mitchell Improved :: E. R. Florence :: Washer Modern :: Home Devices Corp. :: Washer Mrs. Potts :: American Machine Co. :: Iron North Star :: Pfanschmidt, Dodge :: Washboard Northern Queen :: Fuller Bros. :: Washboard Novelty :: Bailey Wringing Machine Co. :: Wringer Ojoy :: Ellerman's :: Washer Our Home :: Keystone Mfg. Co. :: Wringer Pioneer :: W. W. Babcock Co. :: Ironing Board Queen :: Knoll & Althouse :: Washer Rightway :: American Gas Machine Co. :: Washer Sprung Washer :: American Mfg. Co. :: Washer Standard :: E. H. Huenefeld :: Washer Star :: Knoll & Althouse :: Washer Sterling :: Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk, & Co. :: Washer Thor :: Hurley Machine Co. :: Electric Ironer Thor :: Hurley Machine Co. :: Washer Troy :: Nichols Mfg. Co. :: Iron Union :: John Benker & Co. :: Washer Universal :: American Wringer Co. :: Mangles Universal :: Eclipse Wringer Co. Universal :: Robert C. Reeves :: Wringer Victor :: Robinson & Marriner :: Washer Welcome :: Bailey Wringing Machine Co. :: Wringer Western Star :: Anthony Wayne Mfg. Co. :: Washer White Wire :: Hudson River Wire Mills:: Clothes Line Wyandotte :: J. B. Ford Co. :: Cleaner
Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Topic
Laundry
Dryers
Irons (Pressing)
Ironing boards
Washing machines
Dry-goods
Clothespins
Provenance
Laundry Machinery and Accessories 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.
Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Laundry Machinery and Accessories
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Summary
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Laundry Machinery and Accessories 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
Extent
1.47 Cubic feet (consisting of 3 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, plus digital images of some collection material. )
Date
circa 1865-1933
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Laundry
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Ephemera
Business ephemera
Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Laundry Machinery and Accessories, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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.
Rights
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.
Genre/Form
Ephemera
Business ephemera
Scope and Contents
This material consists primarily of advertising cards, envelopes, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, bills, receipts, price lists, books, and printed advertisements from manufacturers and distributors of laundry machinery and accessories. Washing machines, wringers, dryers, mangles, irons, ironing boards, clothes pins, and hampers are among the items found in this subject area. The material dates from [1865?] – 1933, but the bulk of the material is late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Materials are organized by name of company. There are three folders of materials grouped by type: Patent and trademarks, related publications, and miscellaneous items.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
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 Series 2: Other Collection Divisions Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1562723430809-1562723430814-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8e48fb981-4fb0-4f74-88eb-bfaeb3260b1b

In the Collection

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  • Manufacturers and Distributors of Laundry Machinery and Accessories

  • Take a Cue from the Chinaman... cartoon of two Chinese men in a laundry, one with his queue caught in the laundry wringer : trade card

  • Simpson & Gault

  • The Chinese Question Solved / by the Peerless Wringer text above image trade card

  • Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other

  • Slack's Special Agent advertisement : trade card

  • Rachels sic Enamel Bloom advertisement

  • Empire Winger Manufacturing Company

  • Enterprise Manufacturer Company

  • Only one more left who wants to buy it? trade card

  • Best way to get the / Chinese back home / take them Mrs. Potts / sad irons tradecard

  • G. E. Company

  • Advertisement for Mrs.Potts' Cold Handle Sad Iron, with image of Chinese laundry worker : trade card

  • Mrs. Potts Cold Handle Iron / is the only one I will have / used in this country Trade card.

  • Missouri Steam Washer Company

  • Eclipses Manufacturing Company

  • Foley & Williams manufacturing Company

  • Nineteen Hundred Washer Manufacturer

  • Howell's

  • Armstrong Washing Machine

  • Enterprise Manufacturing Company, Works

  • Advertising & Ad Cards for Washing Machines

  • Mitchell Improved Washer

  • Keystone Washing Machine Manufacturing Company

  • Rotary Clothes Dryer Company

  • Lovell Manufacturing Company

  • Penberthy Washing Machine Drainer

  • Sun Manufacturing Company

  • Consolidated Gas Company

  • Bailey Wringing Machine Company

  • Standard Laundry Machine Company

  • Laundry Age Publishing Company

  • Universal Wringer

  • Dry Cleaning—Advertising

  • Conqueror Wringer

  • Dover Manufacturing Company

  • Bless & Drake

  • Pinless Clothes Lines Company

  • Globe Washing Machine Company

  • Domestic Utilities Manufacturing Company

  • Hospital Supply Company

  • General Works

  • Excelsior Washing Machine Manufacturing Company

  • Thomson & Vannington

  • Banner Lye

  • Blackstone Washing Machine Manufacturing Company

  • American Wringer Company

  • "Hydro Extractors" by Schaum & Uhlinger

  • Downs & Company

  • Baughman

  • New York Laundry Works

  • Dann Meyer Manufacturing Company

  • Palmer, H. H. Washing Machine Company

  • Pearl—Wick Corporation

  • Voss Brothers manufacturing Company

  • General Works

  • Bencker, John, & Company

  • Savage Arms Corporation

  • Scrannage, Bate, & Company

  • American Steam Washing Machine Manufacturing Company

  • Related Publications

  • Altorfer Brothers Company

  • Paxon

  • Hill Dryer Company

  • American Gas Machine Company, incorporated

  • Victor Clothes Dryer & Manufacturing Company

  • Patents

  • Hessler, H. E. Company

  • Thomson & Taylor Spice Company

  • New Era Washer Company

  • "Approved Methods for Home Laundering" by Mary Beal Vail

  • Le Roy and Company

  • Eureka Cloth Wringing Machine Company

  • Hotpoint

  • Beethman's Patent Washing Mill

  • U.S. Mangle & Laundry Company

  • Robinson, John Bell Washing Machine Manufacturer

  • Stone Manufacturing Company

  • Patents

  • Troy Laundry Machine Company

  • Spangler & Hartzler Washing Machine Company

  • Babcock, W. W. Company

  • Stannards Washer

  • Theim Manufacturing Company

  • Cogswell's Clothes Reel

  • General Electric

  • Vulcan Manufacturing Company

  • Washing Machine Repair Bills

  • Saratoga County Clothes Pin Company

  • Hurley Machine Company

  • Ricker, J. W.

  • Prima Washing Machine Manufacturing Company

  • Hawley Dry-House Company

  • Horton Washing Machine Manufacturing Company

  • Caldwell, M. A. Washing Machine Company

  • Nichols Manufacturing Company

  • Gorham and Sargent

  • Metropolitan Manufacturing Company

  • Clothes Line Dryers

  • Williams & Gage

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