Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Baths and Bathing
odd: label: General
content: Bathing establishments offered various types of baths including Hot-Air, Russian and Turkish as a source of health, enjoyment and relief from stress. The bathing establishments included public treatments and women often were told they could be treated at home by the facility. Bathing establishments treated women for general debility, female complaints, rheumatism and nervousness. Often the Public baths included hotel, calidarium, tepidarium, baths, barber, chiropodist and manicure rooms catering mostly to the traveling businessmen.
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Baths
label: Topic
content: Swimming pools
label: Topic
content: Plumbing
label: Topic
content: Bath tubs
label: Topic
content: Toilets
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Baths and Bathing 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: Baths and Bathing
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Baths and Bathing 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: 0.76 Cubic feet (consisting of 1.5 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1835-1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Baths
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Subseries one is organized by name of company. There are also eight folders arranged by type including; rules for using the bathroom, postcards, general images, miscellaneous advertisements for bathing establishments and import/export documents.  Subseries two two mostly consists of pamphlets and books relating to baths and bathing and is arranged by type.
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: Materials relate to both bathhouses located in the United States and bathing related objects produced in the United States.  Items originate from the manufacturers of showers, bathtubs, and other early forms of home bathing fixtures.  In addition, swim wear and bathhouses are also integrated into this collection.  The oversize materials are comprised of printed advertisements and brochures.  Much of these materials date from the early days of indoor plumbing and include "amazing" products like self-heating folding bathtubs and thermal bath cabinets.   General images of both products and women bathing children are found throughout the collection.
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