Object Details
Summary
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Fences 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
This material consists primarily of pamphlets, printed advertisements, trade catalogues, calendars, trade cards, patents and scattered correspondence on letterhead stationary from manufacturers and distributors of fences. These companies sold fences for both home and commercial use. There are also some materials with reference to gates and iron railings.
The material dates from 1856 to 1941, but the bulk is late nineteenth century early twentieth century.
sova.nmah.ac.0060.s01.01.fences
Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Topic
Fences
Gates
Hand-railing -- Iron
Iron
Steel
Provenance
Fences 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.
Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Fences
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Extent
0.94 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
Date
1856-1941
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Fences
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Ephemera
Business ephemera
Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center Subject Categories: Fences, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement
Arranged in 2 subseries. The first is organized alphabetically by compahy name. The second is grouped by type of materials.
Subseries 1: Manufacturers and Distributors
Subseries 2: Related Materials
Processing Information
Oversize material is unprocessed.
In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History implemented the use of minimal level processing standards to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections.
A large portion of stored material from the original acquisition received minimal level processing, which resulted in additions to this Subject category. This effort included basic arrangement and replacement of non-archival housing for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Revisions to the encoded finding aid were made to reflect the added content in context to the previously processed material.
Minimal level processing and enhancement of the machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, September 2017.
Rights
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.
Genre/Form
Ephemera
Business ephemera
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Fences
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Record ID
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