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
Scope and Contents:
Tours consists of business records and advertisements created by tourism companies and rail lines, travel guides to varied countries and geographic areas, and other select items such as travel advice, resources on hotels and resorts, and travel-related events or lectures.
No expansive business documentation exists for any company represented within the records. The strength of the collection lies in its breadth of information about other countries, states, or geographic locations provided for the purposes of informing travelers. While no substantial material concerning the history and development of the tourism industry exists within the collection, this subject category provides substantial resources for researchers interested in sorts of information that was made available to tourists, types of travel and tours available, and background about resources and perceptions of promoted vacation destinations over a long time period.
Arrangement:
Tours is arranged in three subseries.
Business Records and Marketing Material
Genre
Subject
Forms Part Of:
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
Series 1: Business Ephemera
Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers
Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Provenance:
Tours 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.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Rights:
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.
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Tours, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Library of Congress -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) -- 1900-1910 Search this
Parrot, The (restaurant) -- ca. 1906 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Extent:
1 Folder
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Postcards
Picture postcards
Photolithographs
Photomechanical prints
Reproductions
Date:
circa 1906
Scope and Contents:
Three picture postcards of Washington, D.C., one postmarked 1906; all are photomechanical reproductions of photographs: two color photolithographs of: (1) the Library of Congress (printed in Germany, addressed, with Christmas greeting, postmarked 1906); (2) the Lincoln Memorial (publ. Washington News Co., copyright C.O. Buckingham, no message, unmailed); and (3) a black-and-white advertising postcard of a restaurant interior ("The Parrot", no message, unmailed).
Arrangement:
Collection is unarranged.
HIstorical Note:
"Picture postcards became the medium of choice for informal correspondence shortly after their introduction in the first decade of the twentieth century. Many postcards were engraved, lithographed, or otherwise mass produced.... Taken as a whole, postcards provide us with the most complete pictorial record of life in early twentieth century America...."*
The history of commercial photomechanical postcard publishing is treated in references such as: Range, Thomas E. The Book of Postcard Collecting. New York: Dutton, 1980.
Provenance:
Collection donated by North Carolina Museum of History, through Allen R. Hoilman, Collections Assistant in 1988 and 1989.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Probably public domain due to copyright expiration. Fees for commercial use.
Topic:
Buildings -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Archives Center, National Museum of American History Search this
Names:
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Search this
Extent:
8 Items (1 box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
circa 1870-1880
Scope and Contents note:
This artificial collection is the repository for miscellaneous photoprints transferred from other Smithsonian units: see series records.
Arrangement:
Divided into 2 series (new series to be added as needed: (1) Philadelphia Centennial; (2) sightseeing bus.
Biographical / Historical:
This collection has been designated as a repository for miscellaneous photographic prints transferred from Smithsonian curatorial divisions, other offices, and outside donors. The first items (Series 1) were transferred to the Archives Center by Deborah J. Warner, Curator, Division of Physical Sciences, NMAH, November 9, 1992: she reported that these items were found in her collections, source unknown. The second acquisition (Series 2) is a gift from Alberta Young. Series 3 was found in the collections, Archives Center.
Provenance:
Found in collections in the Division of Physical Sciences, National Museum of American History.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
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.
Topic:
Tourist trade -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Archives Center, National Museum of American History Search this
Extent:
1 Item (Silver albumen on paper, mounted on board., 5-1/2" x 7-1/2")
Type:
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Place:
Washington (D.C.) -- 1900-1910
Date:
ca. 1900-1910
Local Numbers:
2010.3080 (Nonacc.No.)
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
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.
Topic:
Buses -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Sightseeing business -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Tourist trade -- 1900-1910 -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Genre/Form:
Albumen prints -- 1900-1910.
Collection Citation:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
