Business Records and Marketing Material
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Dry Goods
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1768-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains a significant number of bookkeeping and accounting records in bound form. There is a large volume of transactional documents such as receipts and invoices, plus business correspondence and export/import records. Marketing materials include advertisements, promotional and novelty items, circulars, trade cards, and catalogues. 

The Jermain Business and Family Papers provides extensive transactional records related to the operations of a family-based dry goods business and philanthropical endeavors, which extended to the greater Albany, New York area.

Although much smaller in volume than the Jermain records, the Trimble records illustrates another family business operation. 

The Montgomery Ward history contains noriginal manuscript material regarding the establishment and operations of the company, plus staff research notes about company materials within the collection.

A sampling of catalogues are available including Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck and Company, and a number of other dry goods dealers, including the clothier and fashion industries. As noted, additional catalogue material is stored off-site and some items have been microfilmed.