Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tools
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
- Record ID
- ebl-1562726430881-1562726430894-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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