Mining Companies
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Mining
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Mining / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1846-1980; undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Mining, Subseries 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Mining Companies consists of materials related to mining companies. It is the largest series in the Mining collection and the majority of the materials date from circa 1870-1915. Most of the companies represented operated in North America; there are a few companies included which operated in other parts of the world. The documents are primarily promotional material intended to attract investment: brochures, prospectuses, annual reports, and forms for stock subscription. Also included, for some companies, are business correspondence, blank stock certificates, business cards, press releases. Mined resources covered by the documents in the series include gold, silver, copper, lead, nickel, uranium, cobalt, zinc, coal, and various forms of stone, sand, and gravel. The material is arranged in alphabetical order by company name.