Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Express
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Overnight delivery service
label: Topic
content: Money
label: Topic
content: Money -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Shipping
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Express 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: Express
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Express 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
fileplan: 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
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.15 Cubic feet (consisting of 6 boxes, 1 folder, 4 oversize folders, 2 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial).)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1841-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Express
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business records
label: Type
content: Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
label: Type
content: Business cards
label: Type
content: Publications
label: Type
content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Periodicals
label: Type
content: Printed material
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Advertising
label: Type
content: Advertising cards
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Travelers' checks
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Newsletters
label: Type
content: Letterheads
label: Type
content: Sales letters
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Catalogues
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Sales records
label: Type
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Trade cards
label: Type
content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Type
content: Sales catalogs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Express contains one subseries.

Business Records and Marketing Material
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 Nicole Blechynden, 2016 October.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
label: Genre/Form
content: Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
label: Genre/Form
content: Business cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications -- Business
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Travelers' checks
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Newsletters
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Business letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 1880-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Express, local and general, companies offered the following services: money orders, express shipments including parcels and packages, money, valuables to any part of the world including bills, notes and drafts for collection typical referred to as C.0.D's (cash on demand, cash on delivery).  There is some material from railroad express freight lines. 

Foreign express companies had international offices used by the travelling public as a headquarters when aboard. Agents in the offices would receive and forward mail and assist with information about routes, baggage, rates and localities.

The materials are comprised of business records related to daily transactions and the promotion of express services and include correspondence, invoices, receipts, advertisements, price lists, reward posters, pamphlets, photographs and publications. Wax seals are present on some envelopes.  There is very little in the way of illustrations, but those present have been noted.  

Significantly represented companies are Adams Express, American Express, National Express Company, and Wells Fargo.  There is no supplemental general topic/industry material.