Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Printing and Printers
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
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content: Printing -- Instruments
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content: Printing -- History
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content: Printing -- Technique
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content: Printing machinery and supplies
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content: Printing
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content: Printing presses
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content: Linotype
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content: Printmakers
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content: Patents
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content: Wood-engraving
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content: Printers -- United States
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content: Engraving -- 19th century -- United States
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content: Engraving -- History
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content: Printing industry
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content: Retail trade
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content: Sales promotion
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Printing and Printers 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: Printing and Printers
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: 6.04 Cubic feet (13 boxes, 1 folder, 9 oversized folders, 3 flat boxes (1 full, 2 partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1713-1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Printing
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Legal documents
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content: Print advertising
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content: Business records
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content: Correspondence
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content: Invoices
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content: Trade cards
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content: Business cards
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content: Business ephemera
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content: Reports
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content: Ephemera
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content: Periodicals
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content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Type
content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Catalogues
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content: Proofs (printed matter)
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
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content: Receipts
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content: Letterheads
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content: Illustrations
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content: Publications
label: Type
content: Advertisements
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Catalogs
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content: Commercial correspondence
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Advertising
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content: Manuals
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content: Trade catalogs
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content: Business letters
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Printing and Printers is arranged in three subseries. Records, advertising, and catalogues for proprietorships may be filed under either the first or last name of the individual, researchers should look in all applicable alphabetical folders.

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 January.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
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content: Print advertising
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content: Business records
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content: Correspondence
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content: Invoices
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content: Trade cards
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content: Business cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Mail order catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Proofs (printed matter)
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The subject category Printing and Printers primarily represents material designed and created by printing companies, largely on the behalf of other companies. Additional material includes serial publications created by printers, the history of printing, biographical material about printers or typographical artists, as well as printing and engraving instructions. 

Types of printmaking and printers in these records include stereotyping, electrotyping, planographs, typographs, linotypes, and monotypes.

No expansive documentation of any single printer company is represented within the records, and there is minimal breadth of material on specific subject areas within the printing field. However, business records, company histories, select historical overviews, and the cumulative examples of printers visual work may provide researchers with a broad overview of the printing industry as well as a visual sampling of the evolution of printing styles.
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