Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Milk
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
circa 1843-1955
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.98 Cubic feet
consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 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: Milk 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
Representing a more narrow aspect of the dairy, the milk subject category focuses on condensed milk producer and consumer market. Materials include bills and receipts, advertisements, images, business cards, can labels, milk pans, stanchions, infant milk depots, patents and trademarks, publications, and miscellaneous.

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
Milk 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.

Digital Content


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: Milk, 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

Brand Name Index

Brand Name Index
The following is a compilation of the brand names for products in this subject category. Since most of the materials in the Warshaw Collection are arranged alphabetically by company name, this list is intended to assist the researcher in finding information about products when only the brand name is known. Company names are provided for each product along with product type. Once the company name has been identified using this list, the researcher should consult the container list to find the location of the desired materials. This list is not comprehensive but instead offers information on those products that were easily identifiable.
  • Brand Name INdex
  • Brand Name
    Manufacturer
    Butterfly
    Butterfly Hudson Condensed Milk
    Carnation
    Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company
    Darling
    Michigan Condensed Milk Company
    Diamond
    H.Y. Canfield
    Eagle
    Borden's
    Gold Cross
    Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
    Gold Medal
    Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
    Highland
    Helvetia Milk Condensing
    Klim
    Merrell-Soule Company
    Mammala
    Ambrosia Milk Company
    Milkmaid
    Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk
    Oxford
    Scraton Dairy Company
    Pearl, The
    Sussex Co. Milk Company
    Peerless
    Borden's
    Pet
    Helvetia Milk Condensing
    Red Cross
    Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
    Royal
    Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
    Sweet Clover
    Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
    Sunrise
    Coos Bay Condensing Company
    Union
    Mohawk Condensed Milk Company


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
Milk Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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