Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Sex
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Sex 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: Sex
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Sex 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: 0.47 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1750-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Sex
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
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: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This material consists primarily of books, clippings, advertisements, and images relating to sex for the general public.  Though the materials span nearly two hundred years, the bulk of the material is from the late 19th century.

Series 1, Sex Health, 1892–1943, includes some books on sex health and heredity.  There are also materials pertaining to contraception and sexual hygiene.  These materials pertain to both women and men's health and range from scholarly treatises to advertisements for contraceptive methods and feminine hygiene products.

Series 2, Images, undated, contains advertisements, lithographs, and photographic images relating to sex.  The bulk of the images are depictions of nude women, including two different postcards.  There are no nude pictures of men included in this series.

Series 3, Prostitution, 1938; undated, contains mostly undated materials relating to prostitution.  Most of the materials are advertisements from establishments offering prostitution services.  There is also an article written by a prostitute for Ken magazine (1938).

Series 4, Sex and the Law, 1836–1867, contains materials relating to sex and the law.  There are pamphlets addressing blue laws and prostitution.  Woman and homosexual suffrage are also topics addressed in these materials.

Series 5, Transexuals, 1750–1829, contains one image and one newspaper clipping about men transforming themselves into women.  There is also a small story about a woman who masqueraded as a man and married another woman and a drawing of this woman.

Series 6, Sex Humor, 1940; undated, contains some jokes and humorous stories relating to sex.  Most of the material appears to date from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.  Some of these materials may be considered risqué or offensive.
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