Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Animals
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Animals advertisements, caricatures, lithographs, newspaper clippings, papers pertaining to clubs, associations and organizations for the welfare of animals, licenses and books about the care of animals.
creator: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
setName: label: See more items in
content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Animals
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Animals 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: 1.76 Cubic feet (consisting of 3.5 boxes, 3 folder, 5 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1865-1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Animals
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Ephemera
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: There are also advertisements, caricatures, lithographs, newspaper clippings, papers pertaining to clubs, associations and organizations for the welfare of animals, licenses and books about the care of animals. The material dates from ca.1877- 1934

Materials in box one are general images of animals. Box two is arranged by type of material. Box three contains photocopies of advertisements for various products which use images of animals. Box four contains related publications.


This material is predominately comprised of visual content, featuring domesticated and wild animals in advertising or artwork, especially on trade cards, collecting cards, and postcards. It includes advertisements, caricatures, lithographs, newspaper clippings, papers pertaining to clubs, associations and organizations for the welfare of animals, licenses and books about the care of animals. A few keepsake items, such as greeting cards and small novelties are present. Within the dogs folder are a couple of items related to kennels, breeding, and licensure. The contents of the other animals folder is also image-centric with a variety of animals depicted: fowl, hooved, amphibian, fish.
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