Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Engines
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Diesel engines
label: Topic
content: Engines
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Business ephemera
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content: advertising -- Brand name products
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content: Steam engineering
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content: Marine engines
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content: Rotary steam engines
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content: Sales promotion
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content: Corliss steam-engine
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content: Advertising, Direct-mail
label: Topic
content: Steam-engines
label: Topic
content: Diesel motor
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Engines 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: Engines
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Engines 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: 3.01 Cubic feet (consisting of 6.5 boxes, 2 folders, 2 oversized folders.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1829-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Engines
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Trade cards
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content: Business records
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content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Reports
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Catalogs
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content: Periodicals
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content: Legal documents
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content: Manufacturers' catalogs
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content: Invoices
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
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content: Publications
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content: Sales records
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content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Sales letters
label: Type
content: Manuals
label: Type
content: Business letters
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content: Letterheads
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content: Advertising
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Receipts
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content: Advertisements
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content: Print advertising
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Patents
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Printed materials
label: Type
content: Printed material
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Illustrations
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content: Catalogues
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content: Business cards
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content: Correspondence
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Engines is arranged in three subseries.

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 list 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 Nicole Blechynden, 2016 September.
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content: Trade cards
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content: Business records -- 20th century
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content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Reports
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Catalogs
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content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
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content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications -- Business
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Business cards
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content: Business records -- 19th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Covers all manner of engines including: boilers, gasoline, steam, water motors, automatic shut off, self-oiling, portable, vertical, mining, marine, diesel, crude oil, stationary, generators, compound, pumping, silent, alcohol, turbine, kerosene, hydrolic, caloric pumping, sectional, gasolene, iron man, single cylinder, slide valve, apparatus, cut-off, wind, horse, air cooled, valueless, two cycle, and the Corliss engine. Some of the following include engines used in portable sawing outfits, powered mills for grinding grain, feed cookers, boilers, injectors, and generators.

Materials represent a sampling of catalogues, correspondence, invoices, receipts, advertising and marketing material, bulletins, advertising cards, caricatures, seals, product specifications, booklets, price lists, company histories, order forms, prospectus, a few photographs, contracts, a legal opinion on a patent dispute (Novelty Iron Works, 1856), an operations guide 80-foot Elco Submarine Chacer Instructions, Care and Operations of Machinery Plant (Standard Motor Construction Company, 1917), patents and patent circulars, and a promotional diary.  Many items are illustrated with print drawings and schematics of engines and associated equipment, plus some images of manufacturing facilities. No extensive runs or complete records exist for any single company or brand, and no particular depth is present for any singular subtopic, although some publications may provide general and historical overviews of a person, company, or a facet of industry.
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