Whitman's Chocolates Collection
name: label: Collector
content: Whitman Chocolates
topic: label: Topic
content: advertising -- Food
label: Topic
content: Chocolate processing
label: Topic
content: Chocolates -- History
label: Topic
content: advertising -- Confectionery
label: Topic
content: Chocolate industry -- History -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Whitman's Chocolates, through Robert J. Dizutti, 1991, November 13.
creator: label: Collector
content: Whitman Chocolates
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content: Whitman's Chocolates Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: Materials trace the evolution of product packaging and advertising of Whitman's Chocolates. Includes business records and photographs of early product displays.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878-1954, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0437
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Business records
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Stacy Coates, intern, 1991; supervised by Vanessa Broussard-Simmons, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Business records -- 20th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection primarily documents the packaging and display of Whitman's Chocolates. There is a pen and ink sketch from a New York newspaper dated from 1878 which is an image of the Whitman exhibit in Paris, France. Also included are advertisements clipped from newspapers and magazines dated1898 and 1934 as well as undated advertisiements. A scrapbook labeled as Mr. Greenwood's advertising and merchandising portfolio consists primarily of photographs of window displays and products.  The window displays are from stores across the United States, including Burlington, Vermont; Louisville, Kentucky; Wichita Falls, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Huntington, West Virginia; Chicago, Illinois; Burlingame, California; Beverly, Massachusetts; Mobile, Alabama; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlantic City, New Jersey and Albany, New York. There are some materials relating to Mother's Day, including a short paper on the history of the holiday which states that the first observance was in Philadelphia in 1908.  In addition, there are candy wraps, point of purchase displays, correspondence and a Good Housekeeping Bureau of Foods Sanitation and Health certificate from 1932. A second scrapbook of correspondence, advertisements, order forms, newsletters, and newspaper clippings dates from 1950-1952. There is also a fact book dated 1954 and an undated product book.  Lastly, there is an undated photograph of Stephen Whitman. Materials are arranged in chronological order.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials related to Stephen F. Whitman & Son are located in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (AC0060).
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: The Division of Home and Community (now Division of Cultural and Community Life) holds artifacts related to this collection, including packaging for some of its products. See Accession number 1992.0017.