Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Radios
name: label: Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Radio -- History
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content: Radio -- Receivers and reception
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content: Radio
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content: Radio -- Transmitters and transmission
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content: Radio -- Apparatus and supplies
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content: Radio broadcasting
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content: Radio broadcasts
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content: Radio in politics
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content: Radio advertising
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content: Radio -- Receivers and reception -- Design and construction
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content: Radio audiences
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content: advertising -- Business ephemera
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content: Consumer goods -- Catalogs
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content: Periodicals
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content: Broadcast advertising
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content: Radio comedies
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content: Broadcasting
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content: Broadcasting -- United States
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content: War
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content: Retail trade
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content: Radio programs
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content: Transmission of culture
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content: Radio -- 1930-1940
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content: Radio -- Antennas
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Radio 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: Radios
abstract: label: Summary
content: A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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: 2.44 Cubic feet (consisting of 4.5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversize folders, 2 flat boxes (partial), 1 map case folder.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1893-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Radios
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Business ephemera
label: Type
content: Business letters
label: Type
content: Publications
label: Type
content: Receipts
label: Type
content: Business cards
label: Type
content: Trade literature
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content: Logs (records)
label: Type
content: Sales catalogs
label: Type
content: Print advertising
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertising mail
label: Type
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Type
content: Invoices
label: Type
content: Trade cards
label: Type
content: Technical reports
label: Type
content: Trade catalogs
label: Type
content: Advertising
label: Type
content: Manuals
label: Type
content: Reports
label: Type
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Type
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Type
content: Catalogues
label: Type
content: Printed materials
label: Type
content: Illustrations
label: Type
content: Bulletins
label: Type
content: Technical manuals
label: Type
content: Printed material
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content: Transcripts
label: Type
content: Letterheads
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content: Printed ephemera
label: Type
content: Advertisements
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content: Advertising cards
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content: Radio scripts
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content: Correspondence
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content: Advertising fliers
label: Type
content: Business records
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Radio 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 Max Howell, 2016 December.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Business ephemera
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content: Business letters
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content: Publications -- Business
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content: Receipts
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content: Business cards
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content: Trade literature
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content: Logs (records)
label: Genre/Form
content: Sales catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Print advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising mail
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Invoices
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Technical reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuals
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Manufacturers' catalogs
label: Genre/Form
content: Commercial correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Catalogues
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed materials
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
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content: Bulletins
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content: Technical manuals -- 20th century
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content: Printed material
label: Genre/Form
content: Transcripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Letterheads
label: Genre/Form
content: Printed ephemera
label: Genre/Form
content: Publications
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising cards
label: Genre/Form
content: Radio scripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertising fliers
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The radio category contains material primarily related to radio company products, radio broadcasts and programs, technical documentation on the use of radios, and material documenting the effect of radio on modern life. The bulk of the material covers sales catalogues and advertisements, though no complete records for single companies are present.

The radio broadcast transcripts and programs include fictional or anecdotal stories, transcripts of contests, interviews, or speeches, and notifications about future broadcasts. 

Literature concerning the effect of radio on modern life includes brief radio historiographies, discussions about the need for advanced education for the radio field, and documentation of the use of radio in leisure time or in rural life. Additional publications address the uses and effects of radio during times of war. While no extensive documentation exists on any one topic, the publications may provide general histories of the radio with snapshots of specific facets of radio history.
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