Manufacturing Companies
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Barbering
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Barbering, Subseries 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subject category- Barbering consists primarily of printed advertisements, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, catalogues, postcards, business cards, premiums, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, periodicals, order forms,
books and a few packages and recipes from manufacturers and distributors of barbering supplies. The barbering supplies include furniture, shaving mugs, shaving cream, razors, strops, hair brushes, combs, hair preparations, clippers, shears, coats, towels, face lotions, talcum powders, barber shop signs, hat and coat racks, mirrors, and occasionally these companies also sold bath tubs and water tanks. Most of the business cards and some of the printed advertisements are from hair grooming saloons and barber shops. Materials from labor unions for barbers are also included. There are a number of images including photographs of individual barbers and some lithographs of hair grooming establishments.