Companies
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lathes
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lathes / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1868-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Lathes, Subseries 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The materials are arranged alphabetically by company.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Subseries one consists of materials from companies that manufactured various lathes. Items
include advertising sheets, informational brochures, business cards, correspondence
primarily involving product information and pricing, price lists, catalogues that are
mostly illustrated, receipts, and operating handbooks. The bulk of the materials are from
the late 19th century. There is a wide variety of locations, mostly in the northeastern
United States, including New York, Illinois, Michigan, Philadelphia, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Ohio, New Hampshire and several different cities in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
There is also one company located in Manchester, England.