Advertising, marketing, and commercial imagery collections

WARSHAW COLLECTION OF BUSINESS AMERICANA, ca. 1724-1977
#60

BUSINESS EPHEMERA -- VERTICAL FILES and
BUSINESS EPHEMERA -- OVERSIZE

List of Subject Categories

GENERAL SUBJECT CATEGORIES

Subject Category

(*) Categories organized and described in Scope Content
Notes and Container Lists available in the Archive Center.
Vertical Document

Box #
Oversize Boxes

Box # Folder #
Map case Drawers

Map Drawer Folder
Case
Photo
Prints

Abrasive Industry * 1-2

Accounting and Book keeping * 1-3 1
77
1
1-2

Acoustics * 1

Adhesives * 1 1 2 x

Advertising Industry * 1-9 1
77
3-9
3-5
1 1 1 x

Afro-Americana * 1-4 1 10 1 1 2 x

Agriculture * 1-21 2
77

78
1-6
6-8

1-3
1 1 4-9 x

Air-Conditioning * 1-5 77 4

Almanacs * 1-7 77 5 x

Alphabet * 1 2
77
7
6

Aluminum * 1 x

Amusements 1 2
77
8-9
7
1 1 1-4,
8-9
x

Animals 1-4 3
77
1-4
8
1 2 5

Animated Figures 1

Anthropology 1

Antiques 1 77 9 1 2 6    x

Apiculture 1
   x

Architecture 1-4 3
79
5-8
1-3
1 2 7, 10-11    x

Armor 1

Art 1-11 3
4

79
9-11
1-4

4-6
1 3 1-3, 9    x

Artificial Limbs 1 79 7    x

Arts and Crafts 1

Asbestos * 1 4 5

Astrology 1 4
79
6
8-9

Astronomy 1 4 7

Auctions 1 4
80
8-10
1-5
1 3 4-5,10    x

Authors 1

Autographs 1-2 4 11

Automobile Industry * 1-26 4
5

80

81
12-14
1-6

6-9

1-2
1 3 6-8,11    x

Aviation * 1-13 5
81
7-10
3-5
1 3 12    x

Awnings 1 5 11 1 3 12    x

Axes 1    x

Bags and Bagging Materials* 1-2 6 1    x

Bakers and Baking * 1-4 6
82
2-6
1-2
1 4 1,12    x

Baking Powders * 1-2 6
82
7
3-4
1 4 2    x

Baking Soda * 1 6 8    x

Ball Bearings * 1    x

Bands * 1    x

Bankruptcy 1    x

Banking and Banks 1-28 7
82
1-3
5-7
   x

Barbering * 1 7
82
4
8-9
   x

Barrels * 1

Baskets * 1

Baths and Bathing * 1-2 7
82
5-6
10-11
   x

Beds and Bedding Materials * 1-2 1 4 3    x

Beer * 1-5 7
82

83
7-9
12

1-3
1 4 4-5,13    x

Bells * 1    x

Beverages * 1-4 7
83
10-12
4-7
   x

Bibles * 1    x

Bicycles * 1-5 8
84
1
1-3
1 4 6    x

Billiards * 1 8
84
2
4
1 4 7    x

Birds * 1-2 8
84
3
5
1 4 14     x

Blacking * 1    x

Blind * 1 8 4    x

Blotters * 1    x

Bluing * 1    x

Boats and Boating Equipment * 1-3 8 5 1 4 8    x

Books 1-15 8
84

85
6-16
6-7

1-10
1 4 9, 15    x

Borax * 1    x

Boxes * 1 9
86
1-2
1-2

Boy Scouts * 1 9 3

Brass, Bronze, and
Copper *
1-4

Bricks * 1-2 9 4-5    x

Bridges * 1-2 9
86
6
3-4
1 4 10, 16

Brushes and Brooms 1-2 86 5    x

Building and
Construction *
1-2 86 6-7     x

Business Colleges * 1 9
86
7
8-9

Business Machinery * 1 9 8-9 1 4 11    x

Butterflies * 1

Buttons * 1-3 9 10    x

Calendars * 1-7 10
11

12

13

87

88

89
1-13
1-8

1-13

1-14

1-2

1-3

1-4
1 5 1-5    x

Camping
Equipment and Sites *
1 14 1-2 1 5 6    x

Canals 1 90 1    x

Candles * 1 90 2    x

Cards 1-17 14
90
3-4
3-5
1 5 7    x

Carpets * 1-8 90 6 1 5 8    x

Cartoons 1 14
90
5-6
7
   x

Cash Registers * 1 90 8 1 5 9    x

Caskets * 1    x

Cement * 1-2 90 9    x

Cemeteries * 1-2

Census * 1

Cereal * 1-2 14 7 1 5 10, 15    x

Chains * 1

Chairs 1-2 14
91
8
1
1 5 11, 16    x

Chamber of Commerce * 1

Charity 1-2 14 9

Chemicals * 1-5

Chewing Gum * 1 15
91
1
2
1 5 12    x

Children 1-5 15
91
2
3
   x

Christmas 1-2 15
92
3-10
1-3
1 5 13-14, 18    x

Churches 1-3 15
92
11-12
4-5
   x

Circus * 1-2 15
93
13-15
1-3
1 6 1, 6-7    x

Civil Defense * 1

Civil Service * 1

Civil War 1-5 16
93
1-3
4
1 6 8    x

Clothing * 1 16
93
4
5
1 6 2

Clubs 1 16
93
5-6
6

Coal 1-4 16
94
7-9
1
1 6 9    x

Coca and Chocolate * 1-2 16
94
10
2
1 5 17    x

Coffee * 1-4 16
94
11-13
3
1 6 10    x

Columbus, Christopher * 1

Combs * 1    x

Commerce * 1

Commercial Laundries * 1

Commission Merchants 1-2

Concrete * 1-2 16 14

Confectionery * 1-3 16 15-17 1 6 3    x

Cookbooks * 1-3    x

Copyrights * 1

Corks * 1 94 4

Corsets * 1-5 17
94
1
5
1 6 4    x

Cosmetics 1-6 17
95
2-7
1-3
1 6 5, 11    x

Costumes * 1 17 8-9    x

Cotton 1 17
95
10
4
   x

Crime 1 17
95
11
5
   x

Curtains * 1 95 6

Cutlery * 1-2 17 12    x

Dairy * 1-4    x

Dance 1-2 96 1    x

Dalcomania 1

Data Processing 1

Deeds 1-4 18
97
1-7
1-5
1 7 1, 2

Dentistry* 1-4 18
96
8
2-6
   x

Detectives 1

Devil * 1

Dickens, Charles 1

Dictionaries 1 1 7 8

Dime Novels 1 18
96
9
7-9
   x

Direct Mail 1-2

Directories 1

Dishwashing Machines * 1

Disinfectants 1 18 10    x

Doctors 1-2

Doors 1-2 18 11

Dredging 1

Dry Goods * 1-44 19
98
1-8
1-8
1 7 4, 9    x

Duplicating Devices 1

Dupont Products 1

Dyestuffs * 1-4 19
98
9
9-10
1 7 10

Early Trades and
Professions
1    x

Earthquakes * 1

Electricity 1-28 20 1    x

Elevators * 1-2 20
99
2
1
   x

Elks (Fraternal Order) 1    x

Emblems 1    x

Emigration 1 99 2 1 7 5    x

Employment * 1 20
99
3
3

Encyclopedias 1

Energy 1

Engineering 1-2 20 4

Engines 1-7 20
99
5
4
   x

Engraving * 1-4 20
99
6
5
1 7 3

Envelopes 1-2

Etiquette 1

Export-Import 1 20
100
7-10
1-8
   x

Express 1-6 20
101
11-12
1-3
1 7 6-7, 11    x

Exterminators and Sprayers 1

Fairs 1 21
102
1
1-2
1 8 9, 10    x

Feet 1

Fences 1-3 102 3

Fertilizers 1-4 21
102
2-3
4-5
   x

Files 1

Finances 1    x

Firearms 1-4 21
102
4-6
6-7
1 8 1, 10    x

Fires and Firefighting 1-3 21
102
7-8
8-9
1 8 2    x

Fireworks 1 21 9

Flags * 1-3 21
103
10
1-2
1 8 3    x

Floors 1 21
103
11
3

Florist * 1

Flour * 1-6 21
103
12
4
   x

Food * 1-32 21
22

103
13-15
1-6

5-7
1 8 4    x

Forestry * 1 103 8

Forges * 1

Fortune Telling 1 103 9

Foundries * 1-3 22 7

Frames and Framing 1 22
104
8
1

Franklin, Benjamin 1

Fraternal Orders 1-2 22
104
9
2
1 8 5, 6

Furniture and Furnishings* 1-9 22
104
10-16
3-7
1 8 11    x

Furs * 1-2 22
105
17
1-5
   x

Gambling 1 23
106
1
1
   x

Games 1-3 106 2-3

Gas 1-4 23 2    x

Gems 1

Genealogy 1-2 23
106
3
4

Geology 1

Glassware 1-14 23
106
4-5
5-6
1 8 7, 12    x

Gloves * 1-2 23 6

Gold 1 23 7 1 8 8

Government Loans and Taxes 1

Gymnasium 1    x

Hair 1-3 24
107
1-4
1-3
1 9 1, 2, 8    x

Happy 1

Hardware 1-14 24
107
5
4-5
   x

Hats 1-6 24
107
6-7
6-7
1 9 3, 9    x

Historical 1-2 108 1-2

Horses 1-9 24
108

109
7-9
3-7

1-3
1 9 4-5, 10    x

Hosiery * 1-2 24 10-11 1 9 6    x

Hospitals 1-2 109 4    x

Hotels 1-20 24
109
12
5-7
1 9 7    x

Humor 1-3    x

Hypnotism 1

Incubators * 1    x

Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
1

Indians 1-2 25
110
1
1
1 10 1    x

Industrial Belting * 1-2 25 2

Industrial Equipment 1    x

Inks 1-2 110 2 1 10 8    x

Insecticides 1 25
110
3
3
   x

Instruments 1-9 110 4 1 10 2

Insurance * 1-27 26
111

112

113

114

115

116
1-11
1-5

1-7

1-4

1-4

1-6

1-3
1 10 3-4, 9    x

Inventions 1 25
110
4
5

Irish 1

Iron 1-8 25
110
5-7
6-9
1 10 5, 10    x

Ivory 1    x

Jacks 1

Jewelry 1-10 27
117
1-2
1
   x

Jews 1-6 27
117
3
2
1 10 6

Journalism 1

Kitchen Appliances
and Utensils
1-4 28
118
1
1
1 10 7    x

Knitting 1 28
118
2
2
   x

Ku-Klux-Klan * 1

Labels 1-2 29 1

Labor & Labor Unions 1-4 29
119
2-3
1
1 11 1, 2    x

Laboratories 1

Lace and Embroidery 1 119 2

Ladders * 1 29 4

Ladies' Clothing * 1-9 29
30

119

120
5-10
1-5

3-6

1-2
1 11 3-4,13    x

Languages 1 30
120
6
3

Lathes 1 30
120
7
4

Laundry Machinery and Accessories 1-3 30
31

120
8
1-2

5-6
   x

Law and Lawyers 1-3 120 7-8

Lawn and Garden Furniture * 1 31
120
3
9
1 11 14    x

Lawn Mowers and Lawn Accessories* 1 31
120
4
9
   x

Lead 1

Leather 1-4 31 5 1 11 5

Lectures 1 31
121
6
1

Libraries * 1-3 121 2    x

Lighting 1-4 31
121
7-9
3-4
1 11 6,15    x

Lightning Rods 1

Lithography * 1-4 32
33

121

122

123

124
1-10
1-10

5-6

1-4

1-6

1-2
1 11 7-12, 16    x

Livestock 1-2 31
124
10
3-5
1 11 17    x

Livery 1

Locks 1 31
124
11
6
   x

Loans 1

Lumber Industry and Trade 1-11 31
124
12
8
   x

Machinery 1-5 34
125

126

127

128

129
1-11
1-3

1-5

1-5

1-4

1-5
1 12 1    x

Madison, James 1-3

Magic 1 35
130
1
1
1 12 11

Manpower 1

Manufacturing 1 35
130
2
2

Maps 1 35
131
3-5
1-5
1 12 2-4, 14-15

Marble 1-3    x

Masons 1-2 35
130
6
3

Matches * 1 130 4    x

Material Handling 1

Matrimony 1-2 35
130
7-8
5-6
   x

Meat 1-6 35 9 1 12 5-6, 16    x

Medals 1

Medicine 1-14 35
130
10-15
7-8
1 12 7    x

Men's Clothing 1-16 36
132
1-10
1-3
1 12 8-10, 12-13    x

Mensuration 1-2 37 1-2

Menus 1-6 37
132
3-4
4-5
   x

Mercantile 1-2 37
133
5
1-2

Metals 1-3 37
133
6
3

Military 1-5 38
133
1-4
4-7
1 13 1, 8

Milk * 1-2 38
133
5
8-9
   x

Mills 1 38
134
6
1-2

Minerals 1 38 7

Mining 1-4 38
134
8
3-4
1 13 2    x

Missions 1

Mormons 1

Motion Pictures 1-6 39
134
1-5
5
1 13 3-7, 10-12    x

Motorcycles * 1

Museums * 1-3 39 6

Music * 1-18 39
134
7-11
6-8
1 13 13    x

Napoleon 1

Natural History 1

Navy 1-2 40 1 1 14 19

Needles and Needlework 1-3 40 2-3 1 14 1    x

Newspapers 1-17 42
135

137

138

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148
1-14
1-6

1-5

1-8

1-6

1-8

1-4

1-3

1-5

1-6

1-5

1-3

1-5

1-9
1
1

1
14
15

16
2-18
1-10

1-10
   x

Newspaper Supplements 1 41
136
1-7
1-3

Novelties 1-2 40
149
4
1
1 16 11

Numismatics 1-2

Nurses and Nursing 1

Office Equipment 1-7 43
150
1-2
1
   x

Oils and Lubricants 1    x

Optics 1-3 1 16 12    x

Organic Remains 1

Organs * 1-2 43
150
3
2
1 17 1

Orientals 1 150 3-4

Packaging 1-3 44
151
1
1
   x

Pails 1

Paints 1-12 44
151
2-4
2-3
1 17 2, 9    x

Paper Products 1-11 44
151
5-6
4-9
1 17 3, 8

Passports 1 44 7

Patent Medicines * 1-74 45
46

152

153
1-10
1-16

1-6

1-6
1

1
17

18
4-7
10-14

1-3
   x

Patents 1-4 44
154
8-11
1
1 18 4    x

Pattern Industry * 1-3 44
47

154

155

156
12-14
1-2

2-6

1-3

1-3
1 18 5, 10    x

Peace 1

Pencils 1-2 47 3    x

Penmanship 1-2 157 1 1 18 6

Pens * 1 157 2 1 18 11    x

Pensions 1

Periodicals 1-25 158
159

160

161

162

163

164
1-4
1-8

1-6

1-4

1-7

1-5

1-3
1 18 7-8, 12    x

Petroleum 1-13 47
157
4-5
3-4
1 18 9

Philately 1 1 19 1

Phonographs * 1-3 47
168
6-7
1
1 19 3, 14    x

Photography 1-16 47
165

166

167
8
1-4

1-2

1-2
1 19 4-6    x

Phrenology 1-3

Physical Culture 1 47
168
9
2
   x

Pianos * 1-10 47
168
10-12
3-6
1 19 2, 15

Pins 1

Pipes 1-3 47 13

Plastics 1    x

Playing Cards 1    x

Plays 1-13 47
168
14
7

Plumbing 1-4 47 15    x

Poetry 1 47
168
16
8

Poets 1

Police 1 47 17    x

Polishes 1-2 47 18 1 19 7    x

Politics 1-26 48
49

50

169

170

171

172

173

174
1-14
1-10

1-8

1-10

1-12

1-5

1-5

1-4

1-4
1

1
19

20
8-13, 16
1-8, 18
   x

Post Cards 1

Postmarks 1-3

Post Office 1-4 52 1

Posters 1-4 175 1    x

Pottery * 1-8 51
175
1-12
2-3
1 20 9    x

Poultry 1-4 52
175
2
4
1 20 19    x

Premiums 1-2 52
175
3-4
5-6
1 20 10    x

Printing and Printers 1-11 52
176
5-8
1-5
   x

Prisons 1 52
176
9
6
   x

Prohibition 1-2 52
176
10
7

Proverbs 1

Publishing 1-17 52
176
11
8-10
1 20 11-16    x

Pumps 1-4 176 11 1 20 17, 20    x

Puzzles 1    x

Quakers * 1 177 1

Radios 1-3 53
180
1-2
1
2 1 1    x

Railroads 1-107 54
178

179
1-6
1-7

1-4
2
2
1
2
2-12
1-8
   x

Real Estate 1-4 53
180
3-8
2-6
2 2 9, 14    x

Red Cross 1-2 181 1

Refrigeration * 1-3 53
181
9
2-3
2 2 10, 15    x

Religion 1-8 53
181
10-13
4
2 2 11    x

Research 1

Restaurants 1-2 181 5 2 2 12    x

Revere, Paul 1

Reward of Merit 1

Roads and Road Making 1-3 181 6

Roofing 1-3 53 14

Rope 1-2 53
181
15
7

Rubber 1-10 53
181
16-17
8
2 2 13, 16    x

Safes and Vaults 1-2 55 1    x

Safety 1 182 1

Sailboats 1 55
182
2
2

Salesbooks 1

Salesmanship 1 55
182
3
3
2 3 1, 14    x

Saloons 1 55 4    x

Salt 1-2

Salvation Army 1 182 4

Sanitation 1 55
182
5
5-6

Saws 1-4 55 7 2 3 2    x

Scales 1-7 55
183
7
1
2 3 3    x

Schools 1-21 55
183
8-9
2-3
2 3 4    x

Science 1 55
183
10-11
4

Seed Industry and Trade * 1-21 56
184
1-7
1-6
2 3 5-10, 15    x

Sewing Machines * 1-6 56
183
8-9
5-6
2 3 11    x

Sex 1

Shakers 1

Shakespeare, William * 1

Shears and Scissors 1-16

Ships 1 57
185
1-5
1-4
2 3 12

Shoes 1-15 57
185
6-7
5-7
2 3 13, 16    x

Shovels 1 186 1

Sign Paintings 1

Silhouettes 1

Silk 1-2 57 8 2 4 1

Silver 1-5 57
186
9-11
2
2 4 2

Skates and Skating 1 186 3

Soap * 1-9 58
186

187
1-13
4-7

1-2
2 4 3-9, 16    x

Social Services 1    x

Socialism 1

Spas and Resorts 1-3 2 4 17    x

Sponges and Chamois Skins * 1

Sports * 1-10 59
187
1-5
3-5
2 4 11-12, 18    x

Starch and Corn Products 1 59
188
6
1
   x

Statue of Liberty * 1    x

Steamboats 1-20 59
188
8
2-5
2 4 13    x

Steel 1-9 60 1 2 4 19    x

Stencils and Rubber Stamps 1

Stenography 1    x

Stocks and Bonds 1-6 60
189
2-3
1-2
   x

Stores 1 60
189
4
3
   x

Stoves and Heating Industry * 1-26 60
190
5-10
1-4
2 4 10, 20    x

Straw 1    x

Streetcars and Subways 1-2 2 4 14, 21

Submarines 1

Sugar 1-3 60
190
11
5
2 4 15    x

Tablets * 1

Tags * 1 61 1

Tailors 1-3 61
191
2
1-2
   x

Taxes 1-3 61
191
3
3

Tea * 1-6 61
191
4-6
4-6
2 5 1    x

Telegraph 1-6 61 7 2 5 8    x

Telephone 1-7 61 8-10 2 5 9    x

Television 1-2 61
191
11
7
2 5 10    x

Temperance 1-7 61
192

193
12
1-4

1-4
   x

Textiles 1-22 62
191
1-6
8
2 5 2, 11    x

Thanksgiving * 1    x

Theater * 1-20 63
194

195
1-13
1-6

1-7
2 5 5-7, 12-16    x

Thread 1-9 63
191
14
9
2 5 3-4    x

Tinware 1    x

Tobacco Trade and Industry 1-20 64
65

196

197

198
1-9
1-5

1-5

1-4

1-5
2
2
7
6
1-8
1-9
   x

Tools 1-8 66
199
1-3
1
2 7 9-10    x

Tours 1-6 66
199
4-5
2

Toys, Models, and Hobbies * 1-7 66
199
6-8
3

Trademarks 1-2

Trading Stamps 1    x

Transportation 1-2 66
199
9
4

Traps 1 66
199
10
5

Tunnels 1 66 11

Twain, Mark 1

Typewriters 1-4 66
200
12-13
1-3
2 7 11    x

Umbrellas * 1 201 1

Undertakers 1-2 67 1    x

Underwear * 1 67
201
2
2
   x

Uniforms * 1 67 3 2 8 1, 4

United Nations 1

Vacuum Cleaners 1 67
202
4
3
2 8 2    x

Valves 1-2

Vending * 1 67 5 2 8 3

Venetian Blinds * 1 67 6

Veterinary Science 1-2

Vinegar * 1

Vitamins 1

Vivisection 1

Voting 1    x

Wagons 1-10 68
203
1 2 9 9    x

Wallpaper 1-3 203 2 2 9 1

War 1-5 68
203

204

205
2-5
3

1-2

1-3
2
2
10
9
1-9
3-8

10-12

Warehouses 1 203 4

Warshaw, Isadore 68 6

Watchworks and Clockworks * 1-5 68
203
7-9
5-6
2 11 1,7    x

Waterworks 1-3 203 7 2 11 2-3    x

Wax * 1 68 10

Weather 1-2

Webster, Daniel * 1

Welding 1 69 1

Wheelbarrows 1

Whips * 1

Whiskey 1-15 69
206

207
2-8
1-3

1-4
2 11 4    x

Wild West 1    x

Wills 1 70
208
1
1

Windows 1

Wines 1-7 70
208
2-3
2-3
2 11 8    x

Wire 1-2 70
208
4
4
   x

Women * 1-3 209 1-2 2 11 5    x

Wood 1 70 5

Woodworking 1-2 70
209
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