Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Petroleum
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
label: Names
content: Esso Standard Oil Company
label: Names
content: Standard Oil Company
topic: label: Topic
content: Marine engines
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content: Synthetic lubricants
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content: Marine engineering
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content: Cotton industry
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content: Lubrication and lubricants
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content: Automobile industry and trade
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content: Mines
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content: Marine machinery
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content: Automobiles
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content: Filters and filtration
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content: Engines, automobile
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content: Distillation, Fractional
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content: Petroleum -- Prospecting
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content: Petroleum chemicals
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content: Petroleum refineries
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content: Petroleum industry
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content: Petroleum industry and trade
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content: Gasoline
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content: Exports -- 19th century
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content: Coal
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content: Oil spills
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content: Automobile supplies industry
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content: Importers
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content: Gas
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content: Gas industry
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content: Oil-shale industry
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content: Petroleum -- Distillation
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content: Petroleum, Synthetic
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content: Oil wells
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content: Oil industries
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content: Oil fields
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content: Oil well drilling rigs
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content: Oil
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content: Whaling
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content: advertising -- Petroleum industry and trade
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Petroleum 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: Petroleum
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Petroleum 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: 4.38 Cubic feet (consisting of 9.5 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1838-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Petroleum
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Business cards
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertisements
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content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Legal documents
label: Type
content: Caricatures
label: Type
content: Publications
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content: Printed material
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content: Letterheads
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content: Technical manuals
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content: Receipts
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content: Design patents
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content: Patents
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content: Manuals
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content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Advertising
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content: Reports
label: Type
content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Printed materials
label: Type
content: Business records
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content: Technical reports
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content: Periodicals
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Photographs
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content: Newsletters
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content: Illustrations
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content: Print advertising
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content: Invoices
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content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Petroleum is arranged in three series.

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. 

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: Business cards
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertisements
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content: Business letters
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content: Legal documents
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content: Caricatures
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Printed material
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content: Letterheads
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content: Technical manuals -- 20th century
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content: Receipts
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content: Design patents
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content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Technical reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Newsletters
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The subject category Petroleum relates to the manufacturing, refining, and sales of petroleum and other oil-based products including use in motors, spindles machinery, cylinders and by painters 

Within these materials there exists producer and supplier overlap with other fuel, oil, and lubricant product lines such as linseed, rosin, whale, and refined vegetable oils.  See also subject categories Automobile Industry, Aviation, Coal, Engines, Gas, Oils and Lubricants, plus other related topics, as applicable.

Petroleum includes business records, serial publications, guides and histories of specific companies, patents, images, realia, as well as widely-varied subject records. Business records also include import and export documentation and records of patents. Oversize material included with the series comprises of additional serial publications and business records. 

Material related to specific subject areas provide overviews of several subjects pertaining to the petroleum industry. This includes the general history of the petroleum industry, chemistry and science related aspects of oil recovery and production, and literature about aspects of the petroleum trade intended for tradesmen. Materials extend to gas and electric companies, the automobile, aviation, and maritime industries, as well as addressing issues within the oil recovery trade such as procedures, storage equipment, and balancing safety and cost considerations. 

No particular depth is present for any singular subtopic though Petroleum offers a breadth of general information about various aspects of the petroleum and its related industries.
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