Archives Center, National Museum of American History

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

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Underwear
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
undated
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.49 Cubic feet
consisting of 1 box, 2 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: Underwear 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 scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, printed advertisements, books, pamphlets, order forms, bills/receipts, and catalogues from manufacturers, distributors and importers of underwear. The material dates from 1861 to 1926 but the bulk of the material is late nineteenth and early twentieth century .
Materials are organized by name of company. There are five folders of material grouped by type: general images, import/export documents, patents and trademarks, and miscellaneous items.

Administration

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

Digital Content

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Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
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.
Preferred Citation note
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Underwear, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Business ephemera Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Ephemera Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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