Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Waterworks
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Beverages
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content: Water use
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content: Patents
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content: Water -- Purification -- Filtration
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content: Water transfer
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content: Irrigation
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content: Retail trade
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content: Water-supply
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content: Water-power
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content: Water -- Purification
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content: Water-wheels
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content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
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content: Public works
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content: Turbines
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content: Hydraulic turbines
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content: Windmills
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content: Water -- Filtration
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content: Dams
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content: Water conservation
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content: Reservoirs
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content: Waterways
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content: Water pumps
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content: Hydraulic structures
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content: Hydraulic testing
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content: Public utilities
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content: Pumps
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content: Water resources development
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content: Water supplies
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content: Waterworks
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content: Filters and filtration
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content: Hydraulic engineering
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content: Drinking water
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Waterworks 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: Waterworks
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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: 1.83 Cubic feet (consisting of 3.5 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, 1 flat box (partial).)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1832-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Waterworks
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Reports
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content: Mail order catalogs
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content: Business records
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content: Technical reports
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content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Print advertising
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content: Technical manuals
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Legislation (legal concepts)
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Illustrations
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertising
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Advertisements
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content: Catalogues
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content: Publications
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content: Trade literature
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content: Periodicals
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content: Photographs
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content: Printed materials
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content: Printed material
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content: Receipts
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content: Sales letters
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content: Manuals
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content: Catalogs
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Trade cards
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content: Business letters
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content: Manufacturers' catalogs
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content: Test reports
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content: Trade catalogs
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content: Ephemera
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content: Business cards
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content: Invoices
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content: Legal documents
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content: Printed ephemera
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content: Sales records
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content: Correspondence
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content: Letterheads
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Waterworks is arranged in three subseries.

Business Records

Genre

Subjects
processinfo: label: Processing Information note
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 list of folder contents. Nonarchival 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 Nicole Blechynden, September 2016.
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Reports
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content: Mail order catalogs
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content: Business records
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content: Technical reports
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content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Print advertising
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content: Technical manuals -- 20th century
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Legislation (legal concepts)
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Illustrations
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
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content: Advertisements
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content: Catalogues
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content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade literature
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content: Periodicals
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content: Photographs
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content: Printed materials
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content: Printed material
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content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Test reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Business cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
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content: Correspondence
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content: Letterheads
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Contains a broad scope of freshwater capture and use topics, with particular emphasis on the machinery and systems required for managing water resources and business aspects of the costs of goods and services. Includes coverage of home and farm use, agricultural solutions, and large scale operations such as public utilities such as damns, watersheds, reservoirs. Some of the technologies used are drilling, wells, hydraulics, engines and pumps, in addition to natural power sources in the form of windmills and turbines, and water wheels. both as methods of conveyance of water and in powering other devices such as grinders and saws. Purification and softeners address make up the bulk of treatment. Some materials address legal and regulatory issues but water rights is not significantly covered.

Materials include business records, marketing and advertising, some informational documentation in the form of guides and reports.  A few schematics are present.  A small amount of regulatory publications provide a glimpse of how municipalities dealt with local water issues, including billing and taxation.  Miscellaneous writings includes a few tangential topics such as inland waterways and swimming pools, and a perspective essay on water.
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