Archives Center Business Americana Collection
Object Details
- Creator
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Ravnitzky, Michael
- Place
- Europe
- Puerto Rico
- Topic
- Abrasives industry
- Alternative medicine
- Aged -- Care
- Buildings -- Maintenance
- Children's clothing
- Computers
- Credit
- Disabilities
- Easter
- Ecology
- Franchises (Retail trade)
- Freight and freightage
- Halloween
- Internet
- Interior decoration
- Mental health
- Parades
- People with disabilities
- Storage and moving trade
- Vegetarianism
- Weight loss
- Provenance
- This collection was compiled by the Archives Center from many sources including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian Institution staff.
- Creator
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Ravnitzky, Michael
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- Archives Center Business Americana Collection
- Summary
- This collection contains a variety of business ephemera similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. The material in the Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian Institution staff.
- Accruals
- The Archives Center continues to add to this collection.
- Biographical / Historical
- This collection contains miscellaneous business ephemera. The material is similar to that found in the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, but no new material is incorporated into the Warshaw Collection. The material in the Archives Center Business Americana Collection is newly acquired ephemera received from many sources, including curatorial units, the public, and Smithsonian staff.
- Extent
- 29 Cubic feet (55 boxes)
- Date
- circa 1900-present
- Custodial History
- The Archives Center Music Collection (NMAH.AC.0795) and the Archives Center Sports Memorabilia Collection (NMAH.AC.0796) now form part of this collection.
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0404
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Advertisements
- Advertising cards
- Business ephemera
- Calendars
- Commercial imagery
- Ephemera
- Letterheads
- Maps
- Photographs
- Print advertising
- Trade catalogs
- Citation
- Archives Center Business Americana Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Arrangement
- This collection is arranged into two series. Series 1: Subjects Series 2: Geographical
- Processing Information
- Initially processed by Susan Strange, archivist, 2014. Addenda processed by Jack Barral, Caroline Kleiner, Thalia Chrysanthis, Abigail Phelps, and Erin Wiebe, interns, 2019. The Archives Center Music Collection (NMAH.AC.0795) and the Archives Center Sports Memorabilia Collection (NMAH.AC.0796) now form part of this collection.
- Rights
- Possible copyright and/or trademark restrictions on material in collection. Consult repository.
- Genre/Form
- Advertisements -- 20th century
- Advertising cards
- Advertisements
- Business ephemera
- Calendars
- Commercial imagery
- Ephemera
- Letterheads
- Maps -- 20th century
- Photographs -- 20th century
- Print advertising
- Trade catalogs
- Scope and Contents
- An artificial collection of material organized with the same subject headings as the Warshaw Collection, i.e., generally by product type. Additional subject headings will be added as needed. New material, much of it from the second half of the twentieth century, is added regularly to this collection. This collection is sometimes informally called "Warshaw Junior" by the staff and researchers.
- Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Related Materials
- Materials in the Archives Center Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (AC0060) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Collection (AC1146) Cincinnati Boss Company Records, 1900-1990 (AC0741)
- Record ID
- ebl-1562729480262-1562729480281-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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