Object Details
Summary
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Cocoa and Chocolate 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 note
Materials related to chocolates and cocoa produced or sold in the United States and Europe in the form of printed advertisements, labels, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, advertising cards, business cards and post cards from manufacturers and distributors of cocoa and chocolate. Many items contain images of women either serving or enjoying chocolates. The bulk of the material are from the late nineteenth century. Oversize items are comprised of printed advertisements, price lists, displays, packaging, labels, and general images.
sova.nmah.ac.0060.s01.01.cocoa
Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Topic
Chocolate
Cocoa
Confectioners
Beverages
Food
Provenance
Cocoa and Chocolate 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: Cocoa and Chocolate
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
0.98 Cubic feet (consisting of 2 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
Date
circa 1800-1964
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cocoa
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Business ephemera
Ephemera
Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement
Subseries 1 is organized alphabetically by name of company. Subseries 2 is organized by type of material. The subseries are:
Subseries 1: Cocoa and Chocolate Companies, circa 1800-1964
Subseries 2: Related Materials, circa 1800-1964
Processing Information
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
Business ephemera
Ephemera
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cocoa
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NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cocoa
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Record ID
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