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Guide to the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Bluing

Summary

Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Bluing
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1868-1910
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.23 Cubic feet
consisting of .5 box, plus digital images of some collection material.
Repository:
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Bluing 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 trade cards, bills/receipts, labels, patents, printed advertisements and lithographs. The material dates from 1868-1910 and includes hand bills, labels, leaflets, trademark registers.
Materials are organized by name of company. There are four folders grouped by type: general images, labels, patents and miscellaneous items. Some images of women and children are included.

Administration

Author
Vanessa Broussard-Simmons
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Bluing 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.

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 Subject Categories: Bluing, 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

More Information

General

General
The following is a list of brand names for various paints and related names that appear on this list is a compilation of those found on materials in the vertical document boxes. It is not a complete list of all the brand names for bluing. The list is intended to assist researchers locate desired materials when only the brand name is known.
  • Brand Name Index
    • Brand Name
    Manufacturer
    Bengal
    Frank Miller & Sons
    Booll Blue
    American Ultra Marine Works
    Dy-o-la
    Johnson-Richardson, Co., Ltd.
    Eureka
    John Maier
    Ideal
    Wilkinson-Gaddis & Co.
    Little Boy Blue
    John Puhl Products Co.
    Mrs. Stewart's
    Luther Ford & Co.
    Nuxemberg
    American Ultra Marine Works
    Star
    R. Vaat
    Surenough
    E .M. Tilburn
    True Blue
    M.H. Parsons
    Union
    Carl Doring

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Ephemera Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Business ephemera Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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