Wedding Documents
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Matrimony
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1713 - 1987
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Matrimony, Subseries 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Wedding documents such as wedding certificates (1828-1885), invitations (1835-1920), announcements (1889-1944), calling cards (undated), and memory books for brides (undated).  Most of the wedding documents come from the weddings of specific couples.  There are miscellaneous materials pertaining to the legal side of matrimony, including an oversized (Box 130, Folder 6) list of the membership of an anti-polygamy league that has an anti-polygamy petition on the reverse.  There are three folders in oversize boxes, which contain large wedding certificates (Box 35, Folders 7 and 8 and Box 130, Folder 5).  These certificates tend to be more decorative than the smaller format certificates and two of them include photographs of the couples.