Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Stocks and Bonds
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Stocks
Archival Resource Key
3.21 Cubic feet
consisting of 6.5 boxes, 1 folder, 5 oversized folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.
1815-1972
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
English
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Stocks and Bonds
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Stocks and Bonds 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
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Stocks and Bonds, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
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 Max Howell, 2017 February.
Scope and Contents
Stocks and Bonds contains business records and advertisements generated by stock brokers, bankers, and traders who regularly deal with the US stock market.
Materials include a sampling of blank stock certificates, estimated stock quotes for traders, as well as guides to banking companies and artistic depictions of notable bankers and stock brokers. Additional material includes publications intending to educate others about the stock market, trading, and effective investments.
No extensive runs or complete records exist for any single company, however, Turner, Manuel and Company as well as the New York Stock Market are significantly represented or discussed. No particular depth is present for any singular subtopic though some publications may provide general and historical overviews of how stock market information was passed along both within and without the industry.
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
Arrangement
Stocks and Bonds is arranged in three subseries.
- Business Records and Marketing Material
- Genre
- Subject
Legal records
Invoices
finance -- 19th century
Periodicals
Business ephemera
Local finance -- 19th century
Advertising mail
Savings bonds
Advertising fliers
Stock records
Business cards
Savings bonds -- United States
Print advertising
Business records
Stock certificate books
Receipts
Legal documents
Advertising cards
Illustrations
Legislation (legal concepts)
Business letters
Stock certificates
Ephemera
Letterheads
Publications -- Business
Publications
Advertising
Caricatures
Advertisements
Business Records and Marketing Material
Archival Resource Key
1815-1972
undated
Scope and Contents
Business Records and Marketing Material contains business correspondence, record books, company circulats, annual reports, tax exemption applications, information about company stock auctions, and trustees receipts.
Records where the primary company or individual trader are unreadable have been filed under Miscellaneous.
Companies well represented within the material are Turner, Manuel and Company and the New York Stock Exchange.
A
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1850-1955
undated
1
1
B
Archival Resource Key
1852-1928
undated
1
2
C
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1835-1930
undated
1
3
Chester Steam Mill Company
Archival Resource Key
circa 1848-circa 1880
7
2
Scope and Contents
Capital stock receipt book, repurposed as a clippings scrapbook. Affixed clippings cover all manner of topics.
D
Archival Resource Key
undated
1850-1903
1
4
E
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1848-1928
undated
1
5
F
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1848-1972
undated
1
6
G
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1855-1925
undated
1
7
H
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1839-1948
2
1
I
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1887-1963
2
2-3
Scope and Contents
Includes one volume of International Board of Health Journal Company bound stock certificates. A few have been issued, the remainder are blank (1895-1896).
J
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undated
1840-1928
2
4-5
K
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undated
1858-1916
2
6
L
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undated
1852-1920
2
7
M
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undated
1833-1964
3
1-2
Mallory and Sanford International Flax and Hemp Machine Dressing Company
Archival Resource Key
1865-1866
225
Scope and Contents
Oversized book of shares certificates.
N
Archival Resource Key
undated
1815-1943
3
3
O
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1850-1909
3
4
P
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undated
1836-1952
3
5
R
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1858-1941
3
6
S
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1852-1961
undated
3
7-8
Sterling's Ambrosia Manufacturing Company
Archival Resource Key
1865
7
1
Scope and Contents
Scrip receipt book for capital stock.
T
Archival Resource Key
1840-1921
undated
4
1
Turner, Manuel and Company
Archival Resource Key
undated
1881-1895
4
2-4
U
Archival Resource Key
undated
1902-1941
4
5
V
Archival Resource Key
undated
1864-1883
4
6
W
Archival Resource Key
1856-1927
5
1
Y
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1863
5
2
Business Records
Archival Resource Key
1818-1902
SUPP 29
3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, stock holder reports, bond agreements.
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1836-1928
undated
5
3
Scope and Contents
Receipts, ledger sheets and other documents will illegible or uncertain company association.
Stock Dividend Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1850 June-November
218
Genre
Archival Resource Key
undated
1874-1961
Scope and Contents
Contains bond and stock quotations for goods, independent of business records. This series also contains serial publications, blank stock certificates, historical overviews of different companies, and artistic depictions of trade floors as well as notable stock brokers and bankers.
Bond and Stock Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1875-1961
undated
5
5
Company Guides
Archival Resource Key
1932-1942
5
6
Images
Archival Resource Key
1885-1939
undated
5
7
Scope and Contents
Includes many caricatures of prominent industry personalities. Also contains general print illustrations related to trading and images of exchange floors.
[Interior view of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange : black and white photoprint]
Archival Resource Key
Underhill, Irving
1 Item
Silver gelatin on paper.
9" x 11.5".
1931
English.
6
unmarked
[Interior view of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange : black and white photoprint].
Local Numbers
AC0060-0000521.tif (AC Scan)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted research use on site by appointment. Photographs must be handled with cotton gloves unless protected by sleeves.
Scope and Contents
Black-and-white photograph of the New York Stock Exchange with copyright dated 1931 by New York Stock Exchange. Photograph poorly trimmed; some scratches. Irving Underhill, photographer.
Conditions Governing Use
Reproduction restricted due to copyright. Copyright held by the New York Stock Exchange.
Interior architecture
Stock exchanges
Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin
New York Stock Exchange
Legislation and Regulation
Archival Resource Key
1874-1897
5
8
Serial Publications
Archival Resource Key
1893-1936
6
1
Babson's Reports, "A Discussion of the effects of fundamental conditions on the progress and profits of every business, together with suggestions as to how these constant changes may be turned to advantage"
Archival Resource Key
1924
Scope and Contents
Newsletter.
Bond Record
Archival Resource Key
1893-1894
Scope and Contents
2 issues. 1893 May, 1894 August.
Business World, "Direct Underwriting"
Archival Resource Key
undated
Scope and Contents
Excerpt by James K. Kellogg.
Cent Per Cent
Archival Resource Key
1903 January
Scope and Contents
Volume 1, Number 1.
Financial Diagram
Archival Resource Key
1904 October 22
Industrial Securities
Archival Resource Key
1911 April 22
Scope and Contents
Volume 1, Number 12.
Robertson's Investment News
Archival Resource Key
1925 July-August
Scope and Contents
Volume 3, Number 1.
Wall Street Journal, Municipal Bond News: Halsey, Stuart Tops Syndicate Managers First Six Months
Archival Resource Key
1936 July 10
Scope and Contents
Excerpt.
Weekly Financial Review
Archival Resource Key
1911 October 27
Scope and Contents
Published and distributed by Swartwout and Appenzellar Bankers.
Oversize Serial Publications
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1854-1928
60
3
Daily Indicator
Archival Resource Key
1884 April 16
Scope and Contents
Volume 29, Number 13.
Illustrated London News
Archival Resource Key
1854 June 17
Scope and Contents
Excerpt containing pages 571-572.
Monthly Market Letter
Archival Resource Key
1911 August
Scope and Contents
Volume 11, Number 8. Published and distributed by Harvey A. Willis and Company.
Trend of the Market
Archival Resource Key
1928 June 23
Scope and Contents
Volume 1, Number 28.
Weekly Financial Review
Archival Resource Key
1891 May 01
Stock Certificates
Archival Resource Key
undated
1877
6
2
Oversize Stock Certificates
Archival Resource Key
undated
60
2-3
Subject
Archival Resource Key
undated
1875-1936
Oversize Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1854-1928
189
1-2
Scope and Contents
Stock quotations, business records, blank bonds, and posters.
Stock Education
Archival Resource Key
1879-1936
undated
6
3-4
Scope and Contents
Contains material aiming to educate about the nature of the stock market, put-and-call options, and holding companies, as well as how to effectively trade and speculate, and best methods of investing.
Stock Market History
Archival Resource Key
1875-1930
6
5
Scope and Contents
Contains historical overviews of stock market frauds and the causes of the stock market crisis of 1929.
Writings
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1939 December 20
undated
6
6
Scope and Contents
"Ten Commandments of the New York Stock Exchange". Poem: "Christmas in Wall Street, or What Ever Became of Santa Clause?" by H.A. Leggett and A.B. Wallace.