Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Electricity
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Gas
label: Topic
content: Engineering
label: Topic
content: Lighting
label: Topic
content: Electricity
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Electricity 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: Electricity
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Electricity 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: 12.72 Cubic feet (consisting of 26 boxes, 5 folders, 1 oversize folder, 1 map case folder, 3 flat boxes (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1856-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Electricity
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Patents
label: Type
content: Periodicals
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
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The electricity section is one of the largest sections found in the Warshaw Collection.  While the material in the collection does range from 1856 to 1980, the bulk of the material relates to the 1890-1915 time period.  As such this material is a rich source of information concerning the early development of the electric industry when numerous smaller companies were in operation.

The material is present in a variety of formats.  The most numerous, by far, are publications.  These are in the form of general company publications, parts and product publications, journals, and a variety of more general publications.  In addition, there are advertisements, company correspondence, photographs and post cards, and even a formal Thomas Edison signature from his Menlo Park days.  For the most part the information in this section is directed towards the general public.  However, there is a considerable amount of information created for dissemination within specific companies only.
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