Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Banking
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Occupation
content: Bankers
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content: Advertising history
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content: Savings bonds
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content: Banks and banking, American -- 19th century
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content: Education -- finance
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content: Land titles -- Registration and transfer
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content: Banking
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content: Money
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content: advertising -- Banks
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content: Loans, Personal -- 18th century
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Banking and Bankers 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: Banking
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Banking and Banks 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: 13.66 Cubic feet (consisting of 30 boxes, 2 folders, 6 oversize folders.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1724-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Banking
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Publications
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content: Business cards
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content: Ephemera
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content: Print advertising
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content: Legal correspondence
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content: Letterheads
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content: Promissory notes
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content: Advertisements
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content: Legal records
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content: Wills
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content: Business letters
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Financial records
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Advertising
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content: Stock certificates
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content: Illustrations
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content: Stock records
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content: Receipts
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Printed ephemera
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content: Periodicals
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content: Correspondence
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content: Caricatures
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content: Bank statements
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content: Invoices
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Receipts (financial records)
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content: Legal documents
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content: Business records
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content: Land titles
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The original arrangement was completed by Archives Center Staff (date unknown).  Minor modification was made to the arrangement during additional processing.  The collection is arranged into three subseries.  

Series 1: Business Records and Marketing Material, 1724-1975

Series 2: Genre, 1836-1913

Series 3: Subjects, 1857-1967

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 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. 
            
Arrangement and housing (box and folder) were completed at an earlier date by the Archives Center staff, which also included a preliminary Scope and Content note. Non-archival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed.  

Folder contents were verified with date(s) added; the scope and content note was enhanced, folder-level description was completed, and a machine-readable, encoded finding aid was created by Nicole Blechynden, May 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Publications -- Business
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content: Business cards
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content: Ephemera
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content: Print advertising
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content: Legal correspondence
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content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Promissory notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Legal records
label: Genre/Form
content: Wills
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Financial records
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Stock certificates
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Stock records
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Caricatures
label: Genre/Form
content: Bank statements
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts (financial records)
label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
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content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Land titles
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Most of the banking documents are 19th century (1830-1890) commercial banking correspondence on letterhead stationary between banking customers and clients and their banks, banking houses, dealers and exchanges (rather than bank to bank correspondence) and cancelled checks from large banks such as Shawmut Bank, Bank of Kent, Bank of Whitehall, and Wells Fargo. Correspondence topics include loans, foreign currency exchanges, mortgages, estates and taxes.

Banking regulations, bank annual reports, state and congressional legislation, stock certificates, and bond certificates are also present.

Notes of exchange (first, second and third exchanges), what appears to be scrip issued for currency requirements, promissory notes ("I promise to pay"), complaints concerning non-payment, and a few documents on banknote companies are among the materials.

Bank-issued booklets on various subjects such as saving money, the effect of various depressions, including The Great Depression, may be included in the folder of the publishing bank, and a few other related publications are in the subject series.

Some early material on investment banks (Kidder Peabody, Brown Brothers) and a large number of items from The Manhattan Company, an early bank type organization is also included.

Most of the material comes from the northeastern United States, with a large amount from New York. The vast majority of items are organized by name of the issuing bank, or the name of the bank that cashed the check, with names like "Bank of Kent" filed under "Kent, Bank of". Banks named First National Bank of... are filed under "F" and banks with names like State Bank of New York are filed under "S". Those items that do not contain an identifiable bank name have been filed in Checks and Records by state.

Documents where no bank name or geographic origin is discernible are in folders organized by document  examples, e.g. Bankruptcy and Foreclosure.

A small number of documents and checks from non-U.S. banks are included in Box 29.
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