Companies
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ivory
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1843-1893, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Ivory, Subseries 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries contains the papers of companies dealing in the manufacturing and/or sale of ivory or ivory goods. Items include receipts for materials sold, ad sheets, business cards, price lists, informational booklets, an ad sheet for "Ivory that grows on trees" from William Kingsley, and an article on "Eburnea, the Synthetic Ivory" from George Wright. The bulk of the companies are located in New York. Others are in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. There is also a company in Hamburg, Germany and one in London. The W. Kirsch company material shows Portland as a location but it is unknown what state. Materials are arranged alphabetically by company.