Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Telephone
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: telephone -- Equipment and supplies
label: Topic
content: Telephone communications
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content: telephone
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content: Telephone answering and recording equipment industry
label: Topic
content: Telecommunication
label: Topic
content: Communications
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content: telephone -- History
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Telephone 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: Telephone
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: 3.55 Cubic feet (consisting of 7 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversized folders, 1 map case folder, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1819-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Telephone
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Publications
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content: Illustrations
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content: Receipts
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content: Business cards
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content: Almanacs
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Sales letters
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content: Manuals
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
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content: Bills of sale
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Print advertising
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content: Advertising mail
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content: Sales records
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content: Advertisements
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content: Business records
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content: Technical literature
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content: Realia
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content: Advertising
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content: Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Technical documents
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content: Periodicals
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content: Legal documents
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content: Patents
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content: Letterheads
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content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Telephone 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 lists 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, 2017 February.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Publications -- Business
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content: Illustrations
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content: Receipts
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content: Business cards
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content: Almanacs
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Bills of sale
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Technical literature
label: Genre/Form
content: Realia
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Technical documents
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
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content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The subject category Telephone largely represents business records and advertisements created by telephone companies. Additional materials include telephone design patents, documentation about legal cases involving telephone companies, material concerning the technical functions of telephones, phone call etiquette, and the history and development of the telephone.

No expansive business documentation exists for any single telephone company within the records. Material concerning specific subject areas within the topic of telephones provide a diverse historical overview of the telephone's global implementation, as well as snapshots of every day attitudes towards the telephone. Patents and other legal documents are strongly represented in the collection, in addition to business records.
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