A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Genealogy 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
The collection documents family history in Japan and in America and consists of photographs, documents and genealogical charts. There are also original audio recordings of Japanese poetry recitations and a transcript of an oral history interview relating to the internment of Japanese Americans.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conduced by Victor Barnouw, Joseph Casagrande, Ernestine Friedl and Robert Ritzenthaler among the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa, Wisconsin.
Collection documents the reminiscences of Hezekiah Bissell, a railroad engineer who worked in the western U.S. states with the Union Pacific Railroad, and in Peru.
Uto-Aztecan cognate sets. Sources not specified. Includes citations for Ute.
This accession consists of photographs, genealogies, and other notes, publications, and memorabilia concerning Alexander Wetmore and his family.
This accession consists of Smithsonian Institution Registrar, Stephen C. Brown's Civil War diary and a typescript of the diary; his account book, 1854-1866; sewing kit; a photocopy of a photograph of Brown; and a narrative family history prepared by his son, Harry J. Brown.
Contains: vocabulary; historical notes; apparently list of tribes known to Foxes; important gentes; courtship letter in Fox syllabic text; consanguinity; abstract of lecture; localization in Fox festivals; genealogy; Tesson; some Fox ethnology apparently previously published; ethnological notes.