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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Hair
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1772-1948
Size:
1.45 Cubic feet (consisting of 2.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversized folders, 3 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Hair
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: Hair 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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Digitized Content Breck Girls Collection
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Creators:
Williams, Ralph William
Breck Company.
Dial Corporation.
American Cyanamid Company
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Dates:
circa 1936-1995
Size:
6.5 Cubic feet (16 boxes, 188 pieces of original artwork)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0651
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the development and evolution of the Breck Girl, a highly successful and long-lived advertising campaign whose hallmark was its vision of idealized American womanhood through correspondence, photographs, paintings, and print advertisements.

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Digitized Content Nathaniel Mathis Collection of Barbering and Beauty Culture
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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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Kiehl's Pharmacy Records
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Creators:
Kiehl's Pharmacy
Morse Laboratories. Kiehl's Pharmacy
Dates:
1920-1973
bulk 1960-1970
Size:
6.5 Cubic feet ( 8 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0819
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection consists of formulas and prescriptions for Morse Laboratories and Kiehl's Pharmacy products.

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Digitized Content Sandra and Gary Baden Collection of Celebrity Endorsements in Advertising
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Creators:
Baden, Gary
Baden, Sandra
Dates:
circa 1897-1979
Size:
2 Cubic feet
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0611
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

A wide-ranging collection of over 1,000 celebrity advertising endorsements, ca. 1897-1979. The endorsements were culled by a collector/hobbyist from high-end magazines publications such as Fortune, McCalls, Playbill and Vogue. They feature a wide range of celebrities from the fields of performing arts, sports, business, politics and "society." T...

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Shirley Polykoff Oral History Interview
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Creators:
Polykoff, Shirley
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Dates:
1990.
Size:
1 Cassette tape
0.3 Cubic feet (1 document box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0474
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Oral history describing her career in advertising, especially the creation of the Clairol advertisement "Does She or Doesn't She?" in the 1950s.

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Digitized Content Cover Girl Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project
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Creators:
Bunting, George L., Jr.
Brinkley, Christie
Ellsworth, Scott, Dr.
Colonel, Sheri
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Dates:
1959-1990
Size:
15.5 Cubic feet (30 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0374
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Cover Girl Make-Up Advertising Oral History and Documentation Project, 1923-1991, is the result of a year-long study in 1990, which examined the advertising created for Noxell Corporation's Cover Girl make-up products from 1959 to 1990. The objective of the project was to document, in print and electronic media, the history of Cover Girl make-up advertising since its inception in 1959.

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Digitized Content Smothers Brothers Collection
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Creators:
Smothers Brothers
Dates:
1961-2008
bulk 1960-1990
Size:
12 Cubic feet (30 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1437
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The collection documents the lives and careers of the Smothers Brothers, with emphasis on their 1960s television variety show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

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Digitized Content Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Soap
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Creators:
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Dates:
1885-1960
Size:
4.65 Cubic feet (consisting of 9 boxes, 2 folders, 19 oversize folders, 8 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material.)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Soap
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: Soap 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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Digitized Content N W Ayer Advertising Agency Records
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Creators:
Ayer (N W) Incorporated.
Dates:
1817-1851
1869-2006
Size:
270 Cubic feet (1463 boxes, 33 map-folders, 7 films)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0059
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Collection consists of records documenting one of the oldest advertising agencies created in Philadelphia. The company then moves to New York and expanses to international markets. During its history NW Ayer & Sons acquires a number of other advertising agencies and is eventually purchased. The largest portion of the collection is print advertisements but also includes radio and television. NW Ayer is known for some of the slogans created for major American companies.

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