Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Candles
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Dry-goods
label: Topic
content: Candles
label: Topic
content: Soap
label: Topic
content: Waxes
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Candles 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: Candles
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Candles 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: 0.27 Folders (consisting of .5 box, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1838-1928
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Candles
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Subseries one is organized by name of company. Subseries two is organized by type of material: import/export documents, general images and miscellaneous materials.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Oversize material is 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 consists primarily of bills/receipts, pamphlets, printed advertisements, import/export documents, postcards, labels, lithographs and scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery from manufacturers and distributors of candles and other related products. The companies tended to manufacture a variety of candles including beeswax, stearic acid, sulfur, chemical mould, crystal, glycerin and red oil. Other products include gas lighters, coils, artificial charcoal, soap, starch, sal-soda, indigo, wax bleachers, tapers, inks, blacking, sperm oil, teas, wines, cigars and rolls. There are a few company publications relating to the history of candle making, the shift from candles as utilitarian products to decorative pieces and the uniqueness of a particular candle manufacturing company. The bulk of the material is late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

There are a few images included among the materials . These images are lithographs of women and children with lighted candles . There is no identification of origin on the images . A number of the company related catalogs include images of candles, identification of types and prices.
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