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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tools

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Topic
Machine-tools
Manufacturing industries
Tool makers
Manufacturing
Pipe
Manufacturing processes
Hardware stores -- 1870-1880
Machine-tool industry
Woodworking machinery -- 1830-1960
Light machinery
Tools
Hardware stores -- 1860-1870 -- Pennsylvania
Machinery
Machinery industry
Machine shops
Consumer goods -- Catalogs
Provenance
Tools 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: Tools
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: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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
4.81 Cubic feet (consisting of 10 boxes, 1 folder, 4 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
Date
1834-1965
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tools
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Advertising fliers
Exhibition catalogs
Sales records
Manuals
Annual reports
Print advertising
Blotters (writing equipment)
Publications
Business records
Business cards
Sales letters
Letterheads
Legal records
Photographs
Catalogs
Commercial catalogs
Catalogues
Printed materials
Receipts
Advertising cards
Mail order catalogs
Illustrations
Technical reports
Trade cards
Legal documents
Printed material
Trade catalogs
Periodicals
Technical manuals
Patents
Commercial correspondence
Invoices
Advertising
Sales catalogs
Advertising mail
Advertisements
Ephemera
Reports
Business ephemera
Trade literature
Manufacturers' catalogs
Business letters
Instructional materials
Printed ephemera
Correspondence
Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tools, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement
Tools is arranged in three subseries. Business Records and Marketing Material Genre Subject
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. For this subject, minimal processing included arrangement to the folder level, based on prior processing and preservation action, with retention of the pre-existing arrangement when possible, if applicable. Otherwise, an order was imposed by the Processing Archivist. Some materials were consolidated to eliminate excess bulk but items within folders were not arranged further. The guide may or may not include a more refined list of folder contents. Nonarchival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Minimal level processing and machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, 2016 December.
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
Advertising fliers
Exhibition catalogs
Sales records
Manuals
Annual reports
Print advertising
Blotters (writing equipment)
Publications -- Business
Business records
Business cards
Sales letters
Letterheads
Legal records
Photographs
Catalogs
Commercial catalogs
Catalogues
Printed materials
Receipts
Advertising cards
Mail order catalogs
Illustrations
Technical reports
Trade cards
Legal documents
Printed material
Trade catalogs
Periodicals
Technical manuals -- 20th century
Patents
Commercial correspondence
Invoices
Advertising
Sales catalogs
Publications
Advertising mail
Advertisements
Ephemera
Reports
Business ephemera
Trade literature
Manufacturers' catalogs
Business letters
Instructional materials
Printed ephemera
Correspondence
Scope and Contents
Covers a variety of tools, hand tools, and machinery including cutters, dies, measurement tools, rules, lathes, crimping devices, clamps, drills, and related precision tools. Materials represent a sampling of merchant and services transactions, but there are no full business records for any single entity. This category has a large volume of catalogues present and a few examples of industry reports and technical documentation. With the industries and trades represented in this category, there is significant overlap with Hardware, Instruments, and Mensuration.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
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-1562726430881-1562726430894-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8fa1598e9-2925-4cc5-a7bc-4af23f3bb786

In the Collection

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  • Patents

  • Stanley

  • Rexford, R.W.

  • Guyton and Cumfer Manufacturing Company

  • L'Industria, "Tornio Automatico A Comando Idrodinamico"

  • To the Judges on Machine Tools

  • T

  • Couvreau-Wichard

  • Cleveland Automatic Machine Company

  • Vulcan Crucible Steel Company

  • Angles and Spirals, Cam Cutting, on the Brown & Sharpe Milling Machine

  • Miscellaneous Business Records

  • Miscellaneous

  • Griffith Tool Works

  • International Machine Tool Company

  • E

  • Pond, Lucius W.

  • G

  • Fritschler, Wm. O.C.

  • Verona Tool Works

  • W

  • Lasure Friction Clutch Pulley Company

  • Mattison Machine Works

  • Heller and Brothers

  • American Road and Machine Company

  • Gage, Warner and Whitney

  • Summary of the Exhibits of American Machinery Manufactures at the Paris Exhibition

  • Liberty Machine Tool Company

  • Holt Manufaction Company

  • C

  • Disston Saw Tool and File Manual

  • Booklet, Let's Quit Talking To Ourselves

  • U-V

  • P

  • The First 100 Years Whitman & Barnes: Makers of Fine Tools Since 1848

  • Cincinnati Sharper Company

  • Slocomb, J.T. Company

  • Sears, Roebuck and Company

  • L'Elettrotecnica

  • Business Records and Marketing Material

  • W

  • X-Z

  • J-K

  • Handle and Excelsior Company

  • Cronk and Carrier Manufacturing Company

  • Wells Brothers and Company

  • Washoe Tool Manufacturing Company

  • Cutting Tools

  • Book of Instructions and Standard Tools

  • Western Manufacturing Company

  • Dozier Equipment Company

  • Lowentraut, P.

  • Ingersoll-Rand Company / Sergeant Drill Company

  • Kelly, L.J. Manufacturing Company

  • Niagara Machine and Tool Works

  • Billings and Spencer Company

  • Manuals and Instructions

  • Simonds, Edwin

  • Braunsdorf-Mueller Company

  • Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company

  • B

  • Cincinnati Milling Machine Company

  • Jennings, C.E. and Companies

  • Tireur et Fileur D'or - Gold Gunner and Spinner

  • Optical Measuring Tools Limited

  • RM-AfG

  • H

  • O

  • Van Haagen, C. and Company

  • Compressed Air Data

  • Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation

  • Operator's Hand Book, Bullard Mult-Au-Matic

  • Knecht Brothers Company

  • Wendt-Sonis Company

  • Promotional Material

  • Millers Falls Company

  • Blasidell, P. and Companies

  • Atha Tool Company

  • Armstrong Manufacturing Company

  • Images

  • Mason, Perry and Company

  • S

  • Johnson, E.E.

  • Precision Locating and Dividing Methods

  • Dallett, Thos. H. Company

  • Hitchcock's Machine Tool List: Monthly Reference for Buyers

  • Beaman and Smith

  • Goodell-Pratt Company

  • Haynes Stellite

  • M

  • Quenching Diagrams for Carbon Steels in Relation to Some Quenching Media for Heat Treatment

  • New Haven Manufacturing Company

  • O

  • Becker

  • Walker-Turner Company Incorporated

  • 1927 Report for the Year Ended

  • Gem Manufacturing Company

  • Stow Manufacturing Company

  • S

  • L

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