Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Blind
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Blind
Archival Resource Key
0.49 Cubic feet
consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 1 oversize folder.
1833-1965
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Blind 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
English
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Processing Information
Oversize material is unprocessed. Details for additional collection material can be found in the Contents/Container List.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Blind 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.
Preferred Citation note
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Blind, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Conditions Governing Use note
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.
Materials in the Archives Center
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
Missing Title
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Series 1: Business Ephemera
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Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
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Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers
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Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Scope and Contents
This material consists primarily of scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, envelopes, printed advertisements, annual reports, stamps and catalogs from organizations established to educate and rehabilitate blind people. The material dates from 1833 to 1965 but the bulk of the material is twentieth century.
This material is grouped by name of organization. There is one folder of miscellaneous items.
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.
Arrangement
This material is grouped by name of organization. There is one folder of
miscellaneous items.
Business ephemera
Ephemera
Blindness
Education
Associations, Companies, and Institutions
1
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American - Israeli Lighthouse Incorporated, New York
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1
1
American Foundation for the Blind, Inc., New York, New York
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1
2
Associated Blind, Incorporated, New York, New York
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1
3-4
Bemis Eye Sanitarium, Glen Falls, New York
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1
5
Industrial Home for the Blind, Brooklyn, New York
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1
6
National Association for the Jewish Blind, New York, New York
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1
7
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, New York, New York
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1
8
New York Association for the Blind, New York, New York
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1
9
New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, New York, New York
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1
10
New York Institution for the Blind, New York
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1
11
New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, New York
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1
12
New York State School For the Blind, Batavia, New York
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1
13
Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind, Columbus, Ohio
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1
14
Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, Pennsylvania
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1
15
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum, Boston, Massachusetts
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1
16
Stamps, Publications, and Miscellaneous Materials
2
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Stamps (Sight Conservation Committee, Brooklyn A.I.C.P.)
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1
17
Related Publications
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1
18
Related Books
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1
19
Miscellaneous
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1
20
Institution for the Blind
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undated
SUPP 5
6
Scope and Contents
Trade card advertising goods made by the blind.
Blind
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8
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