Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Birds
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Birds
label: Topic
content: Animals
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Birds 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: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Birds
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Birds 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
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.94 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 2 folders, 3 oversize folders.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1738-1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Birds
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Subseries 1 and 2 are organized alphabetically by name of company.  Subseries 3 and 4 are organized by type. Subseries 5 is arranged alphabetically by name of animal.

Subseries 1: Dealers of Birds and Supplies 

Subseries 2: Clubs and Associations

Subseries 3: Publications 

Subseries 4: Related Materials 

Subseries 5: Images, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: 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.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists primarily of images of birds including photographs, lithographs and engravings.  Images of eagles, owls, and parrots make up the majority of illustrations.  There are sets of cards printed in a series with images of birds on the front and a description on the back.  These cards were published by manufacturers and dealers of products such as soap, tobacco, and baking soda.  There are images that are not associated with a particular company or have descriptions on the reverse side.  Also, some blank advertising cards with merchants names and locations, act as a form of advertising.  A large portion of the material is from importers, breeders, and dealers of birds and manufacturers of bird supplies.  Bird supplies include bird cages, food, medicine, and whistles for training birds.  The material includes catalogues, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, bills, receipts, patents, postcards, newspaper clippings, and books.  Bird dealers often sold other products including fish shells, animals, naturalists, zoologists, and taxidermist's instruments, flower seeds, aquariums, baskets, gravel, pictures, and frames.  There is also a substantial amount of material from bird clubs and associations devoted to saving birds.
relatedmaterial: label: Materials in the Archives Center
content: Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
label: Forms Part Of
content: 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