Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Hats
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Hats
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Hats 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Hats
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Hats 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: 2.43 Cubic feet (consisting of 5 boxes, 3 folder, 4 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: circa 1800-1930
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Hats
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 subject category- Hats consists primarily of receipts, bills of sale, business cards, and advertisements relating to hats. There are also many images of hats, two bound books pertaining to a hatter, several catalogs, and copies of a hatter's in-store magazine, patents, and a number of import/export documents relating to hats, as well as legal documents and correspondence. 

Business records and marketing material include receipts and bills of sale from hatters and hat shops, as well as business cards and advertisements pertaining to same. Other products sold by these establishments include gloves, cloaks, and hat-related items (veils, ribbon, etc.) These materials are primarily from the Northeast United States, with several from other areas in the U.S., and a few from England, France, and Canada. These materials indicate that these businesses were often family owned and operated, and also that many of the smaller shops were owned and operated by women. These materials also reflect the changing ownerships/partnerships in many of the businesses. The material in this series in arranged in alphabetical order by business name. Present also are import/export documents pertaining to hat-making materials and hats. 

There are a number of illustrations of hats from the publication The Delineator and several images of hats from miscellaneous sources. There are patents associated with hat-making, miscellaneous correspondence relating to hat-making and legal documents relating to same, generally regarding the dissolution of business partnerships or the taking-over of businesses. There are also publications related to hats and information and membership cards from hat-related labor associations and organizations. There is also some miscellaneous information related to bandboxes and hatpins, and one chart indicating the appropriate hat to be worn with different outfits throughout the day. The later material in this series is arranged by type of material.
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