Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lawn Mowers and Lawn Accessories
odd: label: Brand / Company / Product Index
content: Organized as: 
Brand Name / Company Name / Type of Product

Acme / Blair Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Airway / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Ajax / C. S. Bell Co. / Garden Rollers

Bay State / Blair Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Best / Blair Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Boston / Blair Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Champion / C. S. Bell Co. / Garden Rollers

Champion / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Charter / Oak Archimedean Lawn Mower Co. / Mower

Cricket / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Doo-Klip / Alliance Mfg. Co. / Grass Shears

Easy / Blair Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Empress / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Excelsior / Chadborn & Coldwell Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Fleetwood / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Gem / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Greyhound / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Imperial / Chadborn & Coldwell Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Lakewood / Chadborn & Coldwell Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower 

Lawn Boy / A & R Power Tool / Lawn Mowers

Lawn King / Gregg & Co. / Lawn Mower

Merit / Canvas Products Co. / Grass Catcher

Model / Chadborn & Coldwell Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Molon / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

New Easy / Blair Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Nox-All / Canvas Products Co. / Grass Catcher

Pilot / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Radium / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Rainbow Peerless / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Rain King / Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. / Lawn Sprinkler

Rajah Clipper / Chadborn & Coldwell Mfg. Co. / Lawn Mower

Rambler / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Republic / Henley Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower

Success / Deming Co. / Lawn Sprinkler

Trump / Animal Trap Co. / Garden Tools

Victor / Arbeiter Lawn Mower Co. / Lawn Mower
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Lawn mowers
label: Topic
content: Sprinklers
label: Topic
content: Rakes
label: Topic
content: Shears
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lawn Mowers and Lawn Accessories 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lawn Mowers and Lawn Accessories
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Lawn Mowers and Lawn Accessories 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: 0.51 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, plus digital images of some collection material. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1857-1938, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Lawnmowers
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Oversize materials are unprocessed.
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. 
            
A large portion of stored material from the original acquisition received minimal level processing, which resulted in additions to this Subject category. This effort included basic arrangement and replacement of non-archival housing for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Revisions to the encoded finding aid were made to reflect the added content in context to the previously processed material.

Minimal level processing and enhancement of the machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, September 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This material consist primarily of advertising cards, bills, receipts, pamphlets, booklets, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery and printed advertisements from manufacturers and distributors of lawn mowers and lawn accessories.  The material dates from 1857 to 1938.

Materials pertaining to lawn mowers are organized by name of company.  Lawn accessories are grouped by type of implement such as rakes, hoes and sprinklers.  There are also three folders of material grouped by type:  lawn mower parts and repairs, patents, and general works (images).
relatedmaterial: label: Materials in the Archives Center
content: Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
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