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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Beer

Creators:: Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
Dates:: 1744-1960
Size:: 3.23 Cubic feet (consisting of 5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Beer
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Beer 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

Harpo Marx Papers

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Creators:: Marx, Harpo
Dates:: circa 1900-1964
Size:: 7 Cubic feet
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.1290
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Alexander Van Valen Papers

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Creators:: Van Valen, Alexander
Dates:: 1849-1850
Size:: 1.5 Cubic feet (4 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0935
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Personal papers of Alexander Van Valen documenting his participation in the California Gold Rush, 1849-1850.

Frances S. Baker Product Cookbooks

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Creators:: Baker, Frances S., 1911-1999
Dates:: circa 1900-1993
Size:: 0.5 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0612
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Small cookbooks, primarily in pamphlet form, produced either by the manufacturer of one of the ingredients or by the manufacturer of appliances used in preparing the recipe. These cookbooks also advertise the products represented. Collection includes pamphlets on canning, canning labels, recipes from newspapers, and several regional cookbooks, including Canada and the Pacific Northwest.

Priscilla of Boston Collection

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Creators:: Kidder, Priscilla C. (costume designer)
Priscilla of Boston.
Dates:: 1940-1996
Size:: 4 Cubic feet (13 boxes)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0557
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection includes letters, sketches, style books, publicity photographs, tearsheets, articles and clippings, scrapbooks, and business documents relating to Priscilla Kidder, the Priscilla of Boston Company, and the American wedding industry. This collection is extraordinarily useful in documenting the development of wedding fashion during the last half of the 20th century. It also illustrates how a small, family-owned, woman-run business grew into a large, nationally known operation.

Ann and Thomas Damigella Collection

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Creators:: Damigella, Ann.
Damigella, Thomas
Dates:: 1951-1997
Size:: 17 videocassettes (vhs)
38 motion picture films
1.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes )
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0583
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Film, sound recordings and documentary material relating to the history of Tupperware home parties and the Damigella Tupperware distributorship in Everett, Massachusetts.

Brownie Wise Papers

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Creators:: Wise, Brownie Humphrey, 1913-1991
Dates:: circa 1928-1968
Size:: 27 sound recordings
15 Cubic feet (26 boxes, 7 folders)
Collection ID:: NMAH.AC.0509
Repository:: Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The papers consist of business records documenting the history of Tupperware from 1951-1958, during which Brownie Wise served as vice president of the Tupperware Company. Also, personal papers and business records documenting her marketing activities for Stanley Home Products, Vivian Woodard Cosmetics, and others.