Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Shoes
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
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content: Shoe machinery
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content: Patents
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content: Retail trade
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content: Trade associations
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content: Shoe industry
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content: Orthopedics
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content: Bootmakers
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content: Shoemakers
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content: Shoes -- Sizes
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content: Shoes -- Fitting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Shoes 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: Shoes
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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: 5.57 Cubic feet (consisting of 11.5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial).)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1794-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Shoes
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Legal documents
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Sales letters
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Business cards
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content: Print advertising
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Business letters
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content: Trade catalogs
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Printed material
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content: Printed ephemera
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content: Manufacturers' catalogs
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content: Correspondence
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content: Illustrations
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content: Photographs
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content: Mail order catalogs
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content: Business records
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content: Catalogues
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content: Periodicals
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content: Letterheads
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content: Catalogs
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content: Invoices
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content: Trade literature
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content: Reports
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content: Realia
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content: Ephemera
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content: Publications
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content: Sales records
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content: Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
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content: Trade cards
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content: Receipts
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content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Manuals
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content: Printed materials
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertising
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content: Advertisements
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Shoes is arranged in three subseries.

Business Records and Marketing Material

Genre

Subject
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and reservation 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 lists of folder contents. Non-archival 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 Max Howell, 2017 March.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Sales letters
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Business cards
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content: Print advertising
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
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content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade literature
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Realia
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content: Ephemera
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials relate to the manufacturing and sales of footwear primarily in the United States. This includes shoes, boots, sandals, slippers, moccasins, tip shoes, orthopaedic modified designs (extension shoes), storm boots, gaiters, foul weather rubbers, plus accessories or replacement parts like laces, heels, soles, and slip on rain/mud guards, cobblers and the repair of shoes. 

Design improvements such as the "standard screw fastened" often appears in ads. Some common themes appear regularly in ads and images: people living or being transported in footware (Old Mother Hubbord, shoes as boats, sleds), cats (a la Puss in Boots), and horseshoes. However, this category only covers footwear for men, women, and children, both casual styles and for dress.  For actual horseshoes, see subject category Horses.  While there make be an incidental exception, lacking also is the presence of shoes specifically for certain professions (nursing, steel-toed workboots), dance (ballet, tap), or sports (cleats, riding boots, hiking, waders for fishing or hunting).

The bulk of the subject category comprises of business records, advertisements, and catalogues created by manufacturers and distributors of shoes. Oversize material included with the series comprise of additional business records including price lists, printed advertisements, and catalogues. Material includes import and export documents and records of patents. 

Additional material includes serial publications from trade magazines, and realia in the form of shop signage and token coins. Material related to specific subject areas provides brief overviews of the shoe trade history, shoe construction, and shoe care intended for a general audience, as well as shoe and leather information intended for tradesmen. 

No particular depth is present for any singular subtopic though some publications may provide general and historical overviews of various aspects of the shoe industry. A small number of German language material is within the collection and is indicated in folder descriptions when 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