Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Material Handling
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Materials handling
label: Topic
content: Tractors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material Handling 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: Material Handling
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Material Handling 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: 0.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1943-1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Material
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material is organized by name of company.  There are only a few companies represented, however, these companies have a substantial amount of material namely periodicals published by the manufacturer.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This material consists primarily of pamphlets, operating manuals and periodicals from manufacturers of equipment for handling goods from the time of receipt, through production, processing, storage and shipping.  Most of the information is directed toward the industry.  There is a concern that this literature is of a practical nature stressing modern and efficient methods.  The available equipment advertised assures the buyer that handling costs will be reduced without cutting efficiency, safety or comfort to operators.  Some of the equipment includes industrial trunks, tractors, portable electric cranes, hoisting mechanisms, tilting mechanisms, lifting and placing flats.  The material dates from ca. 1943-1955.
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