Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Wills
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Wills 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: Wills
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Wills 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: 0.31 Cubic feet (consisting of .5 box, 2 folder, 2 oversize folders.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1762-1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Wills
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
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. 

A large portion of stored material from the original acquisition received minimal level processing, which resulted in additions to this Subject category. This effort included basic arrangement and replacement of non-archival housing for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Revisions to the encoded finding aid were made to reflect the added content in context to the previously processed material.

Minimal level processing and enhancement of the machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, September 2017.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subject category-Wills-consists primarily of last wills and testaments from nineteenth-century America.  Other material dealing with property ownership and transfer and materials about wills makes up a smaller portion of this category. Most of the material is from the east coast primarily New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts though other location in America and the United Kingdom are represented.

Series 1, Last Wills and Testaments and Related Documents, 1762-1923, includes last wills and testaments, copies of wills, papers related to the creation and registration of wills, correspondence regarding wills, estate expenses and inventories. Materials are arranged in alphabetical order by name

Series 2, Materials about Wills and Miscellaneous, 1800s circa-1928, contains two examples of wills and two printed volumes by the Metropolitan Trust Company and the Marine Trust Company, respectively, about how to write wills.  Other materials are a grant for power of attorney from Joseph and Martha Warren in 1842 and a list of accounts from Jacob Stout relating to the guardianship of Rebecca Allu from 1796. Materials are arranged by examples then publications; other material is located in the oversized folder by name.
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