Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Poets
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
circa 1855-1940
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1 Folder
Repository:
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Poets 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 subject category- Poets contains material relating to twenty-four well-known poets from America and the United Kingdom. Most of the material in this collection was published in the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century, and is representative of how poets and poetry were seen in popular society at that time. Though most of the poets are from America and the United Kingdom very few of the items have any geographical location connected to them and many are also undated. The collection is divided into two series the first is information about individual poets the second is material that relates to numerous poets.
Poetry and Poet Biographical Information contains published poetry in book and pamphlet form, ephemeral, illustrated versions poems, and information about the poets written for the public. The ephemeral versions of poems consist of illustrated sheets or small volumes as well as some poetry used in advertising including an embodied bookmark with an image of Robert Frost, and a re-writing of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" to promote Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Material about the poets included biographical sketches, information about the poets' family and home, illustrations of the poets, material from events honoring the poets, and one photograph featuring the home of Edgar Allan Poe. The only poets with signed manuscript copies of poems are Henry W. Austin and A. F. Judd; a self-published, hand-typed volume of work exists for Eva May Sutton. The series is arranged by poet alphabetically.
Information About Multiple Poets, consists of one folder containing a set of six illustrated cards showing the homes of English poets designed by C. Clements and bearing the stamp of D. L. Hamill, Albany, New York.

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
Poets 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.

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: Poets, 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


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
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