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Guide to the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Baking Powders
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.BakingPowders
- Creators:
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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circa 1809-1940
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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1 Cubic footconsisting of 5 boxes, 1 map folder.
- Repository:
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Baking Powders 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
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This material consists primarily of advertising cards, bills/receipts, printed advertisements, book marks, cook books, labels, pamphlets, and recipe books, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery from manufacturers and distributors of baking powders. These companies also tended to sell other products including bakers' supplies, spices, coffee, teas, cream of tartar, cigars, tobacco, gloss starch, laundry bluing, soap powder, baking soda, soap, corn starch, phosphate of calcium, powdered gelatin and other shelf groceries. The B. T. Babbitt Company located in New York distributed a number of pamphlets and printed advertisements containing reproductions of popular paintings by American artist including Paul de Longpre, Virginia Janus, Percy Moran and J. L. Ferris. Larger size reproductions could be obtained by sending the company trade marks from their products. Other manufacturers such as Edward Canby offered free libraries to their customers. Some of these companies are also in other subject categories such as chemicals, baking soda, patent medicine, images children, art, women, nature scenes, and courtship scenes.
Publications include two pamphlets. Both pamphlets were articles which appeared in the Pharmaceutical Record. "Baking Powders, An Essay on their Composition and Action" (April 1, 1887) was written by George Holland and "Baking Powders" (June 1, 1888) written by C. V. Petraeus discuss the physical qualities of baking powders. H. D. Thatcher & Company also published a pamphlet on the same subject titled "How to Test Baking Powder, Illustrated and Explained for the Practical Use not Only of the Scientist but for the Common People and the Ordinary Cook, with Descriptions of Thatcher's Sugar of Milk Baking Powder and Selected Cooking Recipes "(1890).
Materials are organized alphabetically by name of company. There are three folders of material grouped by type: labels, related pamphlets and miscellaneous items. Miscellaneous items consist of advertising cards with no company to identify manufacturer or dealer.
Administration
Author
Vanessa Broussard-Simmons and Nicole Blechynden
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Baking Powders 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.
Processing Information
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. A large portion of stored material from the original acquisition received minimal level processing, which resulted in additions to this Subject category. This effort included basic arrangement and replacement of non-archival housing for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Revisions to the encoded finding aid were made to reflect the added content in context to the previously processed material.
Minimal level processing and enhancement of the machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, September 2017.
Oversize material is unprocessed.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Preferred Citation note
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Conditions Governing Use note
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Materials in the Archives Center
Materials in the Archives Center
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms Part Of
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
More Information
General
General
The following is a list of brand names for various baking powder products. The names that appear on this list are a compilation of those found on materials in the vertical document boxes. It is not a complete list of all the brand names for baking powders. The list is intended to assist researchers in locating desired materials when only the brand name is known.
- Brand Name Index
Brand Name
Manufacturer
Acme
Lange, Grabe & Baird
Cap Sheaf
DeLand & Company
Champion
Johnston Brothers
Chemical
Deland
Craig's
Hannum, H.B. & Company
Crown
Dieter, J.F. & Company
Czar
Steele & Emory
Enterprise
Bacon, Stickney & Company
Excelsior
Redheffer & Stuart
Forest City
Vouwie Brothers
Gold Medal
Taylor, J. Monroe
Golden Sheaf
Henkel Brothers
Golden Shield
Monroe County Chemical Company
Good Luck
Chicago Chemical Works
Horsford' s
Humford Chemical Works
I.C.
Jacques Manufacturing Company
Imperial Grown
Anthony, J.B. & Company
International
Queen City Chemical Company
K.C.
Jacques Manufacturing Company
Kenton
Potter Parlin & Company
Knickerbocker
Stitt, [Wmin?]
Luther's
Benjamin, L.O. & Company
Miles
Larzelere, James H.
Morning Glory
Feeny, G.S.
None Such
Hanford, Geo G.
Oriole
Queen City Chemical Company
Patapsco
Smith, Hanway & Company
Peerless
Marde
Pure Gold
Newman, S.A.
Safe & Reliable
Granger & Company
Sea Foam
Jones, Gantz & Company
Silver Star
Gandy, Edward
Snow
Boston Relish Company
Sun Flower
Fahnestock Company
Trust
Burns & Reed
Unrivaled
Spracues, Warner & Griswold
Victor
Boos & Holbrook
Windsor
Kegeler, H. Chas.
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Ephemera | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Business ephemera | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Baking powder | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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