Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Hair
odd: label: Brand Name Index
content: The following is a list of brand names for various hair and related names that appear on this list is a compilation of those found on materials in the vertical document boxes. The list is intended to assist researchers locate desired materials when only the brand name is known.

Brand Name Index

Brand Name -- Manufacturer

American Girl -- R. Ginsburg & Bros.

Blue Grass   -- Elizabeth Arden            

Buckingham's  -- R.P. Hall & Co.         

Capillaris  -- T. Hill Mansfield's       

Capillina  -- Wood &   Sons                

Cell-Life -- Susanna Cocroft Laboratories

Cupid -- Richardson & De Long Bros.

Fedora -- Silverberg Import Co.

Follicula -- Anglo-American Electric Ass. 

Grace Darling -- The Fair

Jo-Cur -- Curran Labs

Kreml -- R.B.

Revivum -- C.N. Crittenton

Venida -- Rieser Co.

Vigorol -- J.B. Weis

Wear Rite -- R. Ginsberg & Bros.
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Women -- Health and hygiene
label: Topic
content: Hairstyles
label: Topic
content: Shampoos -- advertising
label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Hair -- Shampooing
label: Topic
content: Exports -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Hygiene
label: Topic
content: Importers
label: Topic
content: Hair
label: Topic
content: Hairdressing
label: Topic
content: Hair art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Hair 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, and it 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: Hair
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Hair 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: 1.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 2.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversized folders, 3 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1772-1948
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Hair
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Business cards
label: Type
content: Business records
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Publications
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Patents
label: Type
content: Illustrations
label: Type
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Type
content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Catalogues
label: Type
content: Sales catalogs
label: Type
content: Periodicals
label: Type
content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Type
content: Letterheads
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Advertising
label: Type
content: Advertising cards
label: Type
content: Printed material
label: Type
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Type
content: Printed materials
label: Type
content: Cabinet photographs
label: Type
content: Samples
label: Type
content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Price lists
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Hair 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 Max Howell, April 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Posters
label: Genre/Form
content: Business cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Cabinet photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Samples
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Price lists
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications -- Business
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The subject category Hair contains material pertaining to the manufacturing and distribution of hair-related products, including shampoos, wigs, hair dyes and tints, hair preservatives, hair oils, straighteners, combs, pressers, hair nets, and veils. Hair also contains material pertaining to hair-related services, including haircuts, hair removal, wigmaking, facial hair shaping, and hair styling. The material is not exclusively marketed to a single gender, but material marketed toward women is more prevalent.

The bulk of the subject category comprises business records, advertisements, import and export records, catalogues, and posters. Companies represented include Dr. J.C. Ayer and Company and Reuben P. Hall and Company.

Additional material includes images and poems related to hair. Portraits of people with long hair or certain hairstyles, images of salons, and caricatures. Realia in the collection consists of a black net veil. Subject- related material provides brief overviews of general hair care and maintenance, in-depth treatments for hair and scalp related problems, and samples of hair provided from people and correspondence describing them.

No particular depth is present for any singular subtopic within the collection, though images of hair styles, product advertisements and posters, and literature related to medical aspects of hair treatment are particular strengths of the collection. It contains a small amount of French, German, Japanese, and Latin language material, which is  is within the collection and is indicated in folder-level descriptions when present.
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