Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tea
odd: label: Partial List of Companies in the Oversize Materials
content: Oversize materials include, but are not limited to the following companies:

Arcularius, James L., Manhattan Mills, New York, NY

Faile, Williams and Company, New York, NY

Grand Union Tea Company , Brooklyn, NY

Great American Tea Company , New York, NY

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, New York, NY

Milliken Tomlinson Company , Ceres Brand, Portland, ME

National Biscuit Company , Five O=Clock Tea, New York, NY

O and O Tea , Company and Location unknown

Parke, H.C. , New York, NY

Ridgways Incorporated, Ridways Orange Label Tea, New York, NY

Smith, George W. , Albany, NY

Tenderleaf Tea Bags, Company and Location unknown

Walsh and Company, Boston, MA
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Tea
label: Topic
content: Tea -- China
label: Topic
content: Tea trade
label: Topic
content: Teahouses
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Tea 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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tea
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Tea 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: 3.3 Cubic feet (consisting of 5 boxes, 6 oversize folders, .25 oversize flat box, 2 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1800-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Tea
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Tea is arranged in three series.

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 Nicole Blechynden, 2017 August.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subject category consists of materials that relate to tea products produced and sold in the United States and abroad. Some of the businesses represented in the collection produce or sell other dry goods, especially coffee.  There is an extensive amount of rich visual material, in particular, the graphics used for trade cards, promotional material, and related novelties. The oversize items are comprised of printed advertisements, signs, posters, and images. The material dates from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.
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