Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Dredging 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.
Dredging is arranged in two subseries.
American Dredging Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1877]
Darling, Louis H., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1903]
Delta Canal Cmpany, Florida [1905]
Haupt, Lewis M., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1886]
Hayward Company, New York, New York [1913; undated]
Healey Contracting Company, New York, New York [1913; undated]
Kaltenbach & Greiss, Cleveland, Ohio, undated
Marshall, John B., New Baltimore, Pennsylvania [1876]
Menge Patent Dredge, New Orleans, Louisiana [c1880]
Minerals Recovery Corp., Kansas City, Missouri [1926]
Morris & Cumings Dredging Co., New York, New York undated
Payn, E.M., Albany, New York [1898]
Smith, Theo. & Brother, Jersey City, New Jersey [1881]
Smith & Wright , Albany, New York [1856/1861/1865]
Starbuck Bros.' Ironworks, Troy, New York [1882-1883]
Tebo, William Steam Dredging, New York & Brooklyn, New York undated
Virginia Dredging Company, Delaware City, Delaware [1901]
White, I. Eugene, New York, New York [undated]
Yuba Manufacturing Company [Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields], San Francisco, California [1939; undated]
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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.
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms part of the
Consists of material produced by firms engaged in dredging or the manufacture and distribution of dredging equipment. It includes trade literature, such as equipment brochures and flyers; business correspondence; invoices; a stock certificate; and caricatures of important figures in the dredging industry. The span dates for the collection are 1856-1939, with the bulk of material dating from circa 1880-1905. The firms represented are mostly from New York and Pennsylvania, with a few other states, such as Louisiana and California, also appearing.
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.
Includes brochures, business reply cards, invoices, and other examples of trade literature produced by firms in the dredging industry. The bulk dates for the series are circa1880-1905. The material is arranged alphabetically by company name.