Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Autographs
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Autographs 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: Autographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Autographs 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: 1.51 Cubic feet (consisting of 2.5 boxes, 9 folders, 4 oversize folders. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1725-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Autographs
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The arrangement scheme for the material has been created by the Archives Center.

1, Letters and Signatures circa 1725-1920

1a, Robert Beverley Papers, circa 1795-1811

1b, Robert DePeyster Outgoing Correspondence, 1828-1829

1c, Thomas F. Foster Outgoing Correspondence, 1831-1837; undated

1d, Mary L. McMurman Outgoing Correspondence, 1867-1868

2, General Subjects, circa 1725-1850

3, Dealers in Autographs, circa 1858-1966

4, Collector's Societies and Publications, circa 1889-1953
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subject category- Autographs consist of hand-written letters, documents, business papers and manuscripts. There are almost no "autographs" in the sense of signatures collected from famous persons. The signatures of Theodore Dreiser and Theodore Roosevelt appear on typewritten letters. Letters from such notables as William McAdoo (United States Secretary of the Treasury), Chauncey DePew (United States Senator) and Schuyler Colfax (United States Vice President) are present. These, and the great majority of letters and documents, concern business and/or political affairs. Apart from the historical interest of the subject matter found in the letters and manuscripts the researcher may learn much about the legal and epistolary styles of the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Almost all of the letters are entirely handwritten; the many styles of penmanship range from the elegant to the virtually unreadable. The manner of folding and addressing the earliest correspondence is very much in evidence in letters written before the general use of envelopes; many of these carry evidence of sealing-wax.
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