Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Textiles
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Trade associations
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content: Patents
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content: Cotton textile industry
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content: Fabrics, including spinning and weaving
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content: Tapestry
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content: Cotton
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content: Textile manufacture
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content: Textile design -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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content: Textile crafts
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content: Textile
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content: Retail trade
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content: Tapestry -- Design
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content: Textiles -- India
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content: Labels -- Design
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content: Textile fabrics in art
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content: Textile fibers, Synthetic -- Equipment and supplies
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content: Cotton picking machinery
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content: Wool, Artificial
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content: Cotton manufacture
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content: Textile fabrics
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content: Cotton picking
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content: Textile fabrics -- 20th century
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content: Textile fibers, Synthetic
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content: Trademarks -- Design
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content: Silk industry
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content: Textile fibers, Synthetic Dyeing
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content: Textile industry
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content: Cotton industry
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content: Tapestry -- Technique
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content: Cotton growing
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content: Cotton -- 1890-1910
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content: Textile mills
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content: Synthetic fabrics
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content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
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content: Textile industry -- 1900-1910
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Textiles 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
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Textiles
abstract: label: Summary
content: 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
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12.77 Cubic feet (consisting of 26.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1784-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Textiles
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Print advertising
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content: Periodicals
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content: Publications
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Printed ephemera
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content: Patterns
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content: Catalogues
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content: Designs (textile)
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Business cards
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content: Legal records
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content: Contracts
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content: Textiles
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content: Trade catalogs
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content: Exhibition catalogs
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content: Advertising
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content: Advertisements
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content: Mail order catalogs
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content: Business records
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content: Designs
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content: Printed material
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content: Labels
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content: Instructional materials
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content: Trademarks
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content: Legal documents
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content: Trade cards
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content: Legislation (legal concepts)
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content: Ephemera
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content: Samples
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content: Manuals
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content: Sample books
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content: Design patents
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Illustrations
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content: Catalogs
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content: Sales letters
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content: Business letters
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content: Correspondence
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content: Manufacturers' catalogs
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Letterheads
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content: Invoices
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content: Photographs
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content: Sales records
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content: Printed materials
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content: Fabrics
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content: Trade literature
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Receipts
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content: Commercial catalogs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Textiles is arranged in three subseries.

Business Records and Marketing Material

Genre

Subject
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and reservation 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 lists of folder contents. Non-archival 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, 2017 March.
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content: Print advertising
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content: Periodicals
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content: Publications
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Printed ephemera
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content: Patterns
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content: Catalogues
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content: Designs (textile)
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Business cards
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content: Legal records
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content: Contracts
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content: Textiles
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content: Trade catalogs
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content: Exhibition catalogs
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content: Advertising
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content: Advertisements
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content: Mail order catalogs
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content: Business records
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content: Designs
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content: Printed material
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content: Labels
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content: Instructional materials
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content: Trademarks
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content: Legal documents
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content: Trade cards
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content: Legislation (legal concepts)
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content: Ephemera
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content: Samples
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content: Manuals
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content: Sample books
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content: Design patents
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Illustrations
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content: Catalogs
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content: Sales letters
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content: Business letters
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content: Correspondence
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content: Manufacturers' catalogs
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Letterheads
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content: Invoices
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content: Photographs
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content: Sales records
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content: Printed materials
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content: Fabrics
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content: Trade literature
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Receipts
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content: Commercial catalogs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This material is concentrated on the 19th century United States textile manufacture and trade, and the sale of textiles in the form of bale, bolt, roll, and fabric to commercial vendors or consumers as source material to make other goods. The first series contains day-to-day records of dealers and vendors, plus advertising and marketing material.  Artisan and home production of goods are virtually not covered but are a couple of incidental publications related to arts, crafts (rugs, weaving, looms), and more refined work such as tapestry. The import/export of textiles is well represented with a large volume of records, which may also provide some insight into the shipping industry.

There is not much on the infrastructure of the industry in the way of directories, trade journals, trade associations, along with manufacturing and plants, though there are a few examples of each. There are virtually no catalogues, except for a few thin ones that were filed by company name.  While not extensive, the sample books and swatches offer a glimpse into product lines. Material types offers limited, specific information on certain varieties such as cotton, wool, linen, rayon, etc. Thread might be incidentally present but is not specifically included since there is already a dedicated subject category for it.  

There is a healthy sampling of product labels. A handful of intellectual property related documents cover protections of designs, plus patents and trademarks.  There is a small bulk of publications related to tariffs and the wool industry.

Clothing patterns, home economics, sewing and seamstresses, household use of textiles (furniture covering, as a cleaning tool, bedding/pillows, etc.) are not covered within this category. Researchers should also look at any of a number of other Warshaw categories, particularly those related to clothing, hosiery, dry goods, furniture, curtains, etc. for period popularity of certain materials and patterns.
relatedmaterial: 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