Oversize
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ladies' Clothing
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ladies' Clothing / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials relate to the production and sales of women's clothing in the United States and abroad. The oversize items are comprised of printed advertisement, brochures, catalogs, import/export documents, related publications and images that are primarily from fashion periodicals. A scrapbook of hand colored paper cutouts of women is also included in the collection.

Most images are black and white line illustrations with few exceptions. Descriptions accompany some garment images. Some images of patterns used in the creation of certain garments accompany the images; see the Warshaw subject, Pattern Industry, for more patterns. The material dates from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century and represents the Gibson Girl and the Flapper styles. An Asian influence is visible in some advertisements and brochures, particularly for women's night and lounge clothes