Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Scales
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Measuring instruments
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content: Measuring instruments industry
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content: Scales (Weighing instruments)
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content: Patents
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content: Retail trade
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Scales 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: Scales
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: 3.25 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
label: Date
content: 1791-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Scales
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Business records
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content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Publications
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Exhibition catalogs
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Sales letters
label: Type
content: Trade literature
label: Type
content: Advertising
label: Type
content: Sales records
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Manuals
label: Type
content: Business cards
label: Type
content: Sales catalogs
label: Type
content: Illustrations
label: Type
content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Advertising cards
label: Type
content: Technical manuals
label: Type
content: Advertisements
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content: Periodicals
label: Type
content: Reports
label: Type
content: Mail order catalogs
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content: Catalogues
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content: Letterheads
label: Type
content: Trade cards
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content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Scales 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. 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 Max Howell, 2017 February.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
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content: Invoices
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content: Business records
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content: Advertising fliers
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content: Publications -- Business
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Exhibition catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade literature
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Business cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
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content: Technical manuals -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scales contains business records and advertisements created by manufacturers and distributors of scales, as well as companies employed to weigh items for communities. Additional materials include scale design patents and educational material on weights and measures.

Extensive business documentation for the Riehlé Brothers is present. The Riehlé Brothers were a scale and testing-machine manufacturer based in Philadelphia. In 1865, Frederick Riehlé purchased two-fifths of interest in the Banks, Dinmore and Company and later helped coordinate the purchase of the Abbott Scale Works company. Frederick's brother Henry later purchased another three-fifths of interest in Banks, Dinmore and Company and the brothers changed the company name to the Riehlé Brothers in 1867.

Material concerning specific subject areas within the topic of scales provides a narrow window into the field of scales, weights, and measures but nonetheless a unique one. The subject category contains a broad view of the business of manufacturing scales and measuring goods for communities, as well as a small amount of social commentary on the necessity of the field in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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