Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Buttons
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Buttons
label: Topic
content: Combs
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Buttons 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: Buttons
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Buttons 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: 1.19 Cubic feet (consisting of 2.5 boxes, 2 folders, 1 oversize folder. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1830-1917
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Buttons
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in two subseries.  Subseries one is organized by name of company. Sunseroes 2 is organized by type.

Subseries 1: Companies

Subseries 2: Related 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 scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, bills/receipts, import/export documents, shipping invoices trademarks and patents from importers, manufacturers and dealers of buttons. The buttons are made of pearl, metal, bone, cloth and horn for military, naval, railway, police, and livery use. The companies also sold other items including combs, earrings, pins, clasps, thimbles, hooks and eyes, brooches, badges, whips, shells, tacks, nails, medallions, banners, and advertising novelties. Some of the companies manufactured machinery for making buttons and combs. There are not many images, however, there is an engraving of an early button maker in the "miscellaneous" folder. There are also import/export documents, sample cards, buttons, and a small group of metal button badges.  The material dates from 1830-1917, but the bulk is late nineteenth century.
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