Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Office Equipment
odd: label: Brand Name Index
content: The following is a list of brand names for various office equipment and related names that appear on this list is a compilation of those found on materials in the vertical document boxes. It is not a complete list of all the brand names for office equipment. The list is intended to assist researchers locate desired materials when only the brand name is known.

Brand Name Index

Efficiency -- Watson Mfg. Co.

Flatpakit -- American

Multigraph	 -- American Multigraph  Sales Co.

Portland -- Southworth Machine Co.	

Wiz -- American Sales Book Co.

Y & E	 -- Yawman & Eube Mfg. Co.
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
label: Names
content: IBM (International Business Machines)
label: Names
content: Xerox Corporation
topic: label: Topic
content: Mail-order business
label: Topic
content: Mail-order business -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Punched card systems -- Machinery
label: Topic
content: Filing cabinets
label: Topic
content: Furniture
label: Topic
content: Information display systems
label: Topic
content: Typewriters -- 1890-1900
label: Topic
content: Office equipment and supplies
label: Topic
content: Office equipment and supplies industry
label: Topic
content: Office equipment and supplies industry -- United States
label: Topic
content: Printing machinery and supplies
label: Topic
content: Patents
label: Topic
content: Display of merchandise
label: Topic
content: Sound recording machines
label: Topic
content: Retail trade
label: Topic
content: Bookkeeping
label: Topic
content: Calculators
label: Topic
content: Accounting -- Data processing
label: Topic
content: Sales accounting -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Pneumatics
label: Topic
content: Telephone answering and recording equipment industry
label: Topic
content: Account books
label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Typewriters -- 1880-1910
label: Topic
content: Magnetic recorders and recording
label: Topic
content: Typewriters
label: Topic
content: Merchandise displays
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Business ephemera
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Office Equipment 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: Office Equipment
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Office Equipment 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: 3.21 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 3 oversize folders.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1833-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Office
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Advertising
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Catalogues
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Sales letters
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Type
content: Printed materials
label: Type
content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Publications
label: Type
content: Sales catalogs
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Business records
label: Type
content: Advertising cards
label: Type
content: Sales records
label: Type
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Printed material
label: Type
content: Reports
label: Type
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Trade cards
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Business cards
label: Type
content: Trade literature
label: Type
content: Letterheads
label: Type
content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Periodicals
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Type
content: Illustrations
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into three subseries.

Business Records and Marketing Materials

Genre

Subject
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.

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 list of folder contents. Nonarchival 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, November 2016.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications -- Business
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Business cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade literature
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes devices and systems such as typewriters, calculation machines, mimeographs and copiers, punches and canceling machines, coin counters, telephonics, addressing and indexing systems, recording and message transmission, stamping, perforating, records storage and files, and also some consumable products like fasteners, ledgers, erasures.  A few product samples are present.  

Some product information contains suggestions and information on good business business practices or increasing efficiency and accuracy in the office or workplace environment.

A small amount of material related to furnishings, such as desks, bookcases, lockers, and trade show displays is present.
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