Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Leather
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Leather
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1.9 Cubic feet
consisting of 4 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 1 map case folder.
circa 1845-1953
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping 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
Collection is in English. A few items are in Spanish or French.
Arrangement note
The collection is arranged into three subseries.
- Business Records
- Genre
- Subjects
Conditions Governing Access note
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
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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
Preferred Citation note
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Leather, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Processing Information note
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.
For this subject, minimal processing included arrangement to the folder level, based on prior processing and preservation action, with retention of the pre-existing arrangement when possible, if applicable. Otherwise, an order was imposed by the Processing Archivist. Some materials were consolidated to eliminate excess bulk, but items within folders were not arranged further. The guide may or may not include a more refined list of folder contents. Nonarchival housing was replaced for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not
all been removed.
Minimal level processing and machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, August 2016.
Scope and Contents note
The leather industry serves both commercial and consumer needs. The preparation and treatment of leather includes tanning, oiling, and dressings as well as tools and equipment used in working with it.
The business records are in the form of operational transactional documents, mostly in the form of bookkeeping, bills, receipts, and correspondence, with a significant volume of import/export documentation.
Advertisements and catalogues cover consumer goods such as luggage, bags, accessories likesuch as wallets, handbags, shoes, bookbinders, harnesses and saddles used for or with livestock, plus raw or semi-processed leather, hide, and tanning goods and services made by or sold to manufacturers of finished leather products. Also present is a small quantity of product samples.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Leather 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.
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.
Advertising cards
Advertising
Letterheads
Advertisements
Catalogs
Sales catalogs
Correspondence
Advertising mail
Publications -- Business
Invoices
Reports
Advertising fliers
Periodicals
Catalogues
Mail-order business -- Catalogs
Hides and skins
Printed materials
advertising -- Business ephemera
Manuals
Mail order catalogs
Receipts
Printed ephemera
Manufacturers' catalogs
Business ephemera
Trade catalogs
Illustrations
Trade cards
Hide preparation
Patents
Business letters
Business records
Print advertising
Ephemera
Printed material
Consumer goods -- Catalogs
Trade literature
Business cards
Publications
Commercial catalogs
Business Records
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circa 1845-1918
Arrangement note
Folders are ed alphabetical by company or proprietor name.
Scope and Contents note
Contains transactional documents such as receipts and invoices for goods and services, correspondence.
A-B
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1847-1916
1
1
Scope and Contents
Includes: Barnum Brothers.
C-D
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1842-1915
1
2
E-G
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1834-1905
1
3
Forepaugh, William F. Jr., and Brothers
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1875-1881
1
4
H-I
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1831-1914
1
5
Scope and Contents
Includes: Headley, William, and Son.
Haley, John G.
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circa 1846-1865
1
6
Scope and Contents note
Company name variants: Easter and Haley; Haley and Read
J-L
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1832-1920
1
7
Kemper-Thomas
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1927
5
Scope and Contents
Circular.
M-O
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1845-1913
1
8
Scope and Contents
Includes: Osborn, John and Son with variants Osborn, Knight, and Company; Osborn, J. and H.K.
Moyer, Edward P.
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circa 1846-1875
1
9
P-R
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1843-1914
1
10
S-T
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1846-1921
2
1
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U-Z
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1832-1918
2
2
Winship
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1848-1870
2
3
Scope and Contents
Includes several name varients: Easter and Winship, H.A. Winship, Winship and Roulstone, Winship and Willis.
Business Records, Marketing Material, Care Guide
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1851-1906
SUPP
16
19
Scope and Contents
Business records include a letter and an import document. Marketing material consists of trade cards, circulars, small catalogues, and price lists for trunks, cases, bags, harness oil, and a riveting machine.
Import/Export Documents
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Buchey, J.J., and Company
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circa 1878-1898
2
4
Conway Brothers
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1880
2
5
Hampton, J.W. Jr., and Company
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circa 1884-1889
2
6
Hampton and Larzelere
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1873
2
7
Hempstead, O.G., and Son
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circa 1873-1899
2
8
Larzelere, Willam, and Company
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circa 1883-1897
2
9
Murphy, Alex, and Company
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circa 1876-1887
2
10
Ruherford, A. P.
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1873
2
11
Scope and Contents note
Name variant: printed as Rutherford on wrap sheets but has been corrected by hand
United States of America Consulate, Newcastle-on-Tyne
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1886
2
12
Vandegrift, F. B., and Company
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circa 1896-1898
2
13
Early-Mid 1800s
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1823-1886
3
1
Early 1870s
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1870-1873
3
2
Mid 1870s
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1874-1876
3
3
Late 1870s
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1877-1879
3
4
1880s
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1880 - 1889
3
5
1890s and Early 1900s
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1922
1890 - 1898
1925
3
6
Genre
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circa 1850-1953
Advertising and Marketing
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Scope and Contents
Contains general marketing material including advertisements, product information, circulars, mailers, and thin
catalogues. Some company history or publications may also be present.
Arrangement
Arranged by categorically by goods or service.
Consumer Products
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undated
3
7-8
Scope and Contents note
Covering: trunks, bags, cases, briefcases, harnesses, saddles, wallets, purses, clothing, shoes, wardrobes, valise, desktop furnishings, straps, handbags, pocketbooks, etc.
Schwartz, L.
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1911
121
7
Scope and Contents note
New products mailer.
Vargas Y Vilaseca, Miguel
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1889
31
5
Scope and Contents note
In Spanish. Product/design brochure, home decor.
Hides, Skins, Leather Suppliers
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undated
3
9
Kumbel's Banding
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circa 1850
31
5
Scope and Contents note
Broadside
Machinery and Tools
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undated
4
1
Tanning, Oils, Dressings
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undated
4
2
Catalogues
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circa 1897-1953
4
3-4
Trefousse and Company
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undated
In English and French.
218
Illustrations
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undated
4
5
Pinder and Winchester's Tannery, Peabody, Massachusetts
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undated
31
5
Scope and Contents note
Illustration, single page from book, title unknown, pg. 131. Note: also includes an image of the William H. Brown residence with Peabody Glue Works.
Patents
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circa 1856-1890
4
6
Product Samples
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undated
4
7-8
Scope and Contents
Various swatches and small promotional items (cases, sleeves, wallets) made of leather.
Subject
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1893-1938
Care Instructions
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1893
4
9
History
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circa 1893-1912
1938 April
4
10
Scope and Contents note
Covering: care and maintenance, workers/trade, history of leather, Stone Age dressing of hides, biography of Andrew W. Stout
Tanning Instructions
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undated
4
11