Rubber
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Rubber is arranged in three subseries.
Rubber 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, and it 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.
Forms part of the
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Rubber, 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.
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 lists of folder contents. Non-archival 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 Max Howell, March 2017.
The subject category "Rubber" contains material pertaining to the manufacturing and sales of rubber and rubber-based products, including India rubber and synthetic rubber. The materials primarily relate to tires, but also includes information about shoes, rubber stamps, rubber belting, tubing, fabrics, hoses, and medical instruments. While there is some subject overlap, see subject category
The bulk of the subject category contains business records, advertisements, and catalogues created by manufacturers and distributors of rubber and rubber products. Materials include records of patents and invoice records. Companies represented within the records include Goodrich Corporation, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Additional material includes literature from professional organizations, case records, serial publications, and realia in the form of a rubber coaster. Material related to specific subject areas provides brief overviews of the history of rubber, manufacturing and maintenance of rubber products, and the role of rubber in trades related to medicine, agriculture, firefighting, shoes, tiles, and stamps.
No single topic is explored in depth, though some publications may provide general and historical overviews of various aspects of the rubber industry. A small amountnumber of German language material is included in the collection and is indicated in folder descriptions when present.
Includes business records of manufacturers and merchants involved in the the rubber industry, advertisements, and correspondence. Material in the Miscellaneous folder includes business records where the company is unattributed or illegible.
Advertising poster.
Includes records of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Includes Goodrich Corporation and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company records.
B. F. Goodrich & Co. advertisement
AC0060--0000925.tif (AC Scan No.)
93-30 (OPPS Neg.)
Series Rubber, Box 2, Folder Goodrich, B.F. & Co.
Advertisement for B.F. Goodrich & Co. "For those who want to know which tires to buy/ a day of demonstration is worth a year of argumentation"
Advertising posters, New England roadmap. Images in posters include portraits, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a man in a monocle smoking a pipe while reading a newspaper and riding a bicycle.
Goodrich advertising posters featuring portraits, and advertisement for double duty quality rubber coats.
Contains India Tire Company booklets.
Price list.
One business card and two clipped magazine ads for automobile tires.
Contains advertisements, company literature, serial publications, price lists, and reports of committees.
Contains company catalogues and literature concerning the history of certain companies, material pertaining to litigation and regulation, patents, realia, literature produced by professional organizations, images and poems associated with the rubber industry, and serial publications. Newspaper clippings separated from serial publications are unattributed article snippets mounted on firm paper.
American Rubber Company (1893), Batchelder and Lincoln (2 catalogues. 1895, undated), C.J. Bailey and Company (undated), Stephen Ballard and Company (1888), A.C. Bates and Son (1877), Bay State Rubber Company (1894), Beacon Falls Rubber Company (2 catalogues. 1914-1915), Boston Belting Company (3 catalogues. 1875-1885), Boston Rubber Shoe Company (2 catalogues. 1892-1902), T.S. Buck (undated).
Candee Rubber Company (3 catalogues. 1884, undated), Class Journal Company (1922), Colchester Rubber Goods (undated), Congress Shoe and Rubber Company (1912), G.K. Cooke and Company (undated), Cooke, Smith and Company (undated).
George N. Davis and Brother (1856), Davol Rubber Company (2 catalogues. 1910-1914), William H. Dietz (1890), Dunmire's Stationary and Printing (undated).
H.D. Edwards and Company (1878), Electric Hose and Rubber Company (undated), Emerson and Company (undated).
Faultless Auto Tube Company (1935), Firestone (1955), G and J (1905), B.F. Goodrich Company (2 catalogues. undated), Goodyear Rubber Manufacturing Company (2 catalogues. uUndated).
Hammond Manufacturing Company (undated), Hartford Rubber Works (3 catalogues. 1883-1897), Hood Rubber Company (4 catalogues. 1896-1915).
Lindeteves-Stokvis (1910). Material in German.
Jas. H. Matthews and Company (2 catalogues. 1906, undated), Michelin Tire Company (2 catalogues. 1912-1913), Morgan and Wright Tires (1895), New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Company (1901).
Paul Rubber Company (1923), Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Company (1912), Pennsylvania Flexible Metallic Tubing Company (1917), Perry Stearns and Company (1890), Pfeiffer Brothers (9 catalogues. uUndated).
Rio Michol Rubber Plantation Company (1904), C.L. Safford (undated), Sears, Roebuck and Company (1925), R.D. Swisher Manufacturing Company (2 catalogues. 1899, undated).
Toledo Rubber Company (1908), Tyrian Rubber Company (1908).
United States Rubber Company (2 catalogues. 1941-1955).
Guides to company products and histories. Includes Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Includes caricatures of industry professionals.
Includes patents from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Hudson Manufacturing Company, and Edgar Tate and Company.
American Society for Testing Material, Blake Hose Association, Boot and Shoe Workers Union, International Automobile League, Rubber Association of America, Rubber Club of America.
1 orange coaster with a print of a cartoon tiger face and the text "Put a tiger in
Volume 5, Number 5.
Volume 1.
Volume 10, Number 26.
7 issues. 1950 July, 1950 August, 1950 September, 1950 October, 1950 November, 1950 December, 1954 September.
Volume 2, Number 1.
Published by Rubber Chemicals Division of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Incorporated.
Reprint of article titled "The Houdini of Textiles" by Gove Hambidge.
4 issues. 1914 July, 1914 October, 1914 December, 1915 March.
Number 346.
2 issues. 1948, 1950. Published by Dow Corning Silicones.
Materials include historical overviews of the rubber industry in multiple countries, rubber producing company marketing methodology, and the general history of vulcanized rubber fabrics.
Includes overviews of the vulcanizing and moulding processes, care and repair of tires, synthetic rubber, descriptions of rubber harvesting and cultivation, and the chemistry behind rubber types and products. Goodrich and Firestone are represented within the materials.
Materials focus on trades outside the car and tire industry. Fields represented include medicine, firefighting, and agriculture. Medical material includes publications focusing on rubber bags used for gauging cranial capacity and medical instruments. Agricultural material focuses on the role of rubber in farming vehicles, milking machines, stable management, and horticulture. Additionally, product-based industries that manufacture tiles, shoes, and stamps are represented.