Query: Barbers
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Barbering
Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1750-1926
Size:
0.53 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, plus digital images of some collection material.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Barbering
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: Barbering 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

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John Barber papers
Creators:
Barber, John, 1893-1965
Dates:
1911-1975
Size:
3 Microfilm reels
Collection ID:
AAA.barbjohn
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The microfilmed John Barber papers contain correspondence; sketches and 46 sketchbooks; a Jules Pascin sketchbook (1922); photogrpahs of Barber, Pascin, and Helen and John Sloan; personal documents; exhibition catalogs; and clippings. Among the correspondents are George Biddle, Stuart Davis, Maurice Becker, Morris Blackburn, Frederic Taubes, Robert Laurent, Emlen Etting, Duncan Phillips, Edith …

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Nathaniel Mathis Collection of Barbering and Beauty Culture
Creators:
Mathis, Nathaniel, 1946- (barber, motivational speaker)
Dates:
1946-2004
bulk 1970-2004
Size:
5.5 Cubic feet (18 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0641
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Nathaniel Mathis is a Washington, D.C., hairstylist, inventor, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur. His papers document his business life and community involvement.

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MS 7033 Material concerning pipes and smoking
Creators:
Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Dates:
1878-89
Size:
160 Items (ca. 160 pages)
5 Photographs
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7033
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Most of these concern pipes and smoking. Includes responses to Barber's 1878 (?) circular regarding smoking and notes in handwriting of Barber, W. H. Holmes, and others. Also includes letters to Holmes regarding Holmes preparation of an article on Peruvian fabrics and brief reports of an attempt to organize an archeological society …

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Alice Barber Stephens papers
Creators:
Stephens, Alice Barber, 1858-1932
Dates:
1884-1986
Size:
0.3 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.stepalic
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of engraver and illustrator Alice Barber Stephens measure 0.3 linear feet and date from 1884 to 1986. The collection includes letters, photographs, printed material, and miscellaneous items.

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Herbert Spencer Barber Papers
Dates:
1903-1950
Size:
7 cu. ft. (14 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7103
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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John Warner Barber scrapbook pages
Creators:
Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885
Dates:
1832-1868
Size:
3 Pages ((on 4 frames of microfilm))
Collection ID:
AAA.barbjohw
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Items "From Diary of J. W. Barber" pasted onto paper: a sketch of Lorenzo Dow, "Preaching on the steps of the South Portico of the State House at New Haven, Conn. June 30th 1832," an illustration from a wood engraving of the "Hudson Co. Court House & Jail Hudson City New Jersey," said …

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Herbert Barber Howe collection of photographs, engravings and printed material
Creators:
Howe, Herbert Barber, 1882-1957
Dates:
1808-1930
Size:
0.6 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.howeherb
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Pictures, clippings, and engravings; including a clipping file of pictures of historic places and people; clippings and postcards of New York City and Battery Park reproduced from the Blair Collection (City Museum of New York); HARPER'S WEEKLY illustrations; stereoscopes of American monuments, architecture, sites, and the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876; 10 color …

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MS 1219-b Letter to Professor Baird, Secretary Smithsonian Institution, from E. A. Barber, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1882
Creators:
Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
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Dates:
May 5, 1882
Size:
10 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1219B
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Encloses a "circular" which he has prepared, consisting of a series of 94 questions, for the purpose of facilitating the collection of material for a study of native North American music. Letters of comment by O. T. Mason and Professor Baird, indicating they feel the circular too elaborate for use by …

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MS 753 Vocabulary of Yampa Band of Utes in Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabulary schedule
Creators:
Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916
Dates:
September, 1875
Size:
11 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS753
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Recorded in Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabulary.

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