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Archives Center Business Americana Collection

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ravnitzky, Michael
Place
Europe
Puerto Rico
Topic
Abrasives industry
Alternative medicine
Aged -- Care
Buildings -- Maintenance
Children's clothing
Computers
Credit
Disabilities
Easter
Ecology
Franchises (Retail trade)
Freight and freightage
Halloween
Internet
Interior decoration
Mental health
Parades
People with disabilities
Storage and moving trade
Vegetarianism
Weight loss
Provenance
This collection was compiled by the Archives Center from many sources including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian Institution staff.
Creator
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ravnitzky, Michael
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Archives Center Business Americana Collection
Summary
This collection contains a variety of business ephemera similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. The material in the Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian Institution staff.
Accruals
The Archives Center continues to add to this collection.
Biographical / Historical
This collection contains miscellaneous business ephemera. The material is similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, but no new material is incorporated into the Warshaw Collection. The material in the Archives Center Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources, including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian staff.
Extent
29 Cubic feet (55 boxes)
Date
circa 1900-present
Custodial History
The Archives Center Music Collection (NMAH.AC.0795) and the Archives Center Sports Memorabilia Collection (NMAH.AC.0796) now form part of this collection.
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0404
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Advertisements
Advertising cards
Business ephemera
Calendars
Commercial imagery
Ephemera
Letterheads
Maps
Photographs
Print advertising
Trade catalogs
Citation
Archives Center Business Americana Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into two series. Series 1: Subjects Series 2: Geographical
Processing Information
Initially processed by Susan Strange, archivist, 2014. Addenda processed by Jack Barral, Caroline Kleiner, Thalia Chrysanthis, Abigail Phelps, and Erin Wiebe, interns, 2019. The Archives Center Music Collection (NMAH.AC.0795) and the Archives Center Sports Memorabilia Collection (NMAH.AC.0796) now form part of this collection.
Rights
Possible copyright and/or trademark restrictions on material in collection. Consult repository.
Genre/Form
Advertisements -- 20th century
Advertising cards
Advertisements
Business ephemera
Calendars
Commercial imagery
Ephemera
Letterheads
Maps -- 20th century
Photographs -- 20th century
Print advertising
Trade catalogs
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection of material organized with the same subject headings as the Warshaw Collection, i.e., generally by product type. Additional subject headings will be added as needed. New material, much of it from the second half of the twentieth century, is added regularly to this collection. This collection is sometimes informally called "Warshaw Junior" by the staff and researchers.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Related Materials
Materials in the Archives Center Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (AC0060) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Collection (AC1146) Cincinnati Boss Company Records, 1900-1990 (AC0741)
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1562729480262-1562729480281-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep809addfd6-47f7-460a-a41c-118347559a08

In the Collection

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  • Theater

  • Children

  • Ku Klux Klan (Fay Donation)

  • Commencement 1913 Address book with tipped-in black-and-white photoprints

  • Mexico

  • Red Cross

  • Photography

  • Cards (Valentines)

  • Menus

  • Coffee

  • Mexico

  • Children

  • Libraries

  • Toys, Models and Hobbies

  • Lawn Mowers and Lawn Accessories

  • Sex ,Tear Sheets

  • Passports

  • Dry Goods

  • African Americans

  • California

  • Cocoa and Chocolate

  • Children's Clothing

  • U.S. Passport for Henry A. Bonynge, physician, and his wife Bessie Bonynge : black and white photoprint stapled to folded sheet of paper

  • Geographical

  • Wisconsin

  • Dry Goods

  • Catalog page showing linens and kitchen accessories, composite from several photographs : color advertisement

  • Acoustics

  • Lighting

  • Wyoming

  • Subjects

  • Maps

  • Music

  • Fires and Firefighters

  • Poverty

  • Camping Equipment and Sites

  • Sports - Football - U. of Miami Media Guide

  • Employment

  • Humor, Comedy Magazine

  • California

  • Tours

  • Telegraph

  • Ladders

  • Sports - Football - Media Guide, North Carolina State

  • Printing and Printers

  • Doors

  • Restaurants

  • Tourism (Florida)

  • Ships

  • Roads and Road Making

  • Sports - Football - Bowl Game Programs

  • Tourism (New York)

  • Indiana

  • Art

  • Sports-Football Preview

  • Kitchen Appliances and Utensils

  • Science

  • Sports - Football - Media Guide, University of Missouri

  • Easter

  • Addiction

  • Sports - Football - Media Guides, University of Illinois

  • Jews, Miscellaneous

  • Tourism (South Dakota)

  • Machinery

  • Philately

  • Whiskey

  • Motion Pictures

  • Dry Goods

  • Ohio

  • Schools

  • Periodicals

  • Building/Builders

  • Forestry

  • Newspapers

  • Tourism (Maryland)

  • Office Equipment - Merchants Transfer and Storage, Co.

  • Environment

  • Physical Culture

  • Cosmetics

  • Birds

  • Office Supplies - Storage Merchants Parcel Delivery Express

  • Motion Pictures

  • Furniture

  • Electricity

  • Sex, Brochures

  • Furniture and Furnishings, Laura Ashley Home Furnishings

  • Sports - Football - Bowl Game Programs

  • Vacuum Cleaners

  • Laundry Machinery and Accessories

  • Christmas

  • Languages

  • Coins

  • Aviation

  • Museums

  • Food

  • Sports - Football - USC Media Guide

  • Fraternal Orders

  • Mississippi

  • Wagons

  • Vermont

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