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

Averbeck, M.J., New York, NY

Cleveland Glass Works, Cleveland, NY

Cold Spring Distilling Company Cincinatti, OH

Craft House Williamsburg Restoration, Inc. Williamsburg, VA

Cullen & Newman Knoxville, TN

French, Richards, and Company Philadelphia, PA

Glassware: Union Wages and Rules

Jones, Thomas New York, NY

Libby Owens Ford Class Company Manufacturers of Safety Glass Location unknown

Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Company New York, NY

Morgantown, WV

New Jersey Plate Glass Insurance Company Newark, NJ

New York Plate Glass Insurance Company New York, NY

Seneca Glass Company

Smalley, A.G. and Company Boston, MA 

Woods, Sherwood and Company Lowell, MA
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Occupation
content: Glass artists
label: Occupation
content: Stained glass artists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Stained glass artists
label: Topic
content: Glass manufacture
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content: Glassware
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content: Glassware -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Glass art -- United States -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Mail-order business -- Catalogs
label: Topic
content: Retail trade
label: Topic
content: Sales promotion
label: Topic
content: Trade associations
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Business ephemera
label: Topic
content: Mosaics
label: Topic
content: Etching -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Windows
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Glassware 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: Glassware
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Glassware 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: 4.89 Cubic feet (consisting of 10.5 boxes, 2 folders, 5 oversize folders, 2 map case folders.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1804-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Glassware
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business records
label: Type
content: Business cards
label: Type
content: Publications
label: Type
content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Sales catalogs
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Printed materials
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Printed material
label: Type
content: Invoices
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content: Illustrations
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Letterheads
label: Type
content: Design patents
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Patents
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Sales records
label: Type
content: Advertising
label: Type
content: Trade cards
label: Type
content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Periodicals
label: Type
content: Catalogues
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertising cards
label: Type
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Manuals
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content: Reports
label: Type
content: Commercial catalogs
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content: Trade literature
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content: Sales letters
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content: Legal documents
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content: Correspondence
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content: Mail order catalogs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Glassware is arranged in three subseries.

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 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.

Supplemental processed material and partial list of names note added by Nicole Blechynden,
2017 August.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
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content: Business cards
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Trade catalogs
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content: Advertisements
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content: Sales catalogs
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content: Business letters
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content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Receipts
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Design patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Patents
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales records
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Periodicals
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade literature
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Legal documents
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Mail order catalogs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Covers glassware in its many forms and application including in building design and sculpture, both as a structural and an aesthetic component, in lighting, in art as a medium and as a method to protect and display art (picture frames, cases, etcetera.), in industry (insulators, electronics), in transportation (lighthouses, railroad signal glasses, headlamps), and in science with medical and lab supplies and instruments, and equipment such as telescopes.  Daily and practical use consumer products feature prominently in the form of household and decorative goods (jarring, canning, dish and serving ware, daily and special use), windows, lamps and lighting, storage of liquids and solids, including detergents, medicine storage, plus beverages and foodstuffs, and cleaning of glass.  Colored, ornamental, ground, etched, leaded, stained, and mosaic glasswork related material appears sporadically.  China and other ceramic and pottery breakable wear is sometimes categorized along with clear, cut, opaque, and colored glass.  Related aspects, such as stoppers, are also included.

Collection materials represent a sampling of businesses and products.  The Patent and Design folder has numerous submission summaries, along with schematics, some hand drawn, and a few blueprints, mostly related to bottle design.  A limited amount of industry publications and union documents are present, especially for the Glass Workers.
relatedmaterial: 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