Object Details
- Creator
- Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Place
- New York (N.Y.) -- Transportation
- Hudson River
- Topic
- Passenger ships
- Marine machinery
- Ships
- Shipbuilding industry
- Ferries
- Transportation -- Japan
- River boats
- Marine engines
- Boats
- Transportation -- Far Eastern
- Ships -- Equipment and supplies
- Merchant Marine -- Manning of vessels -- United States
- Docks
- Health
- Ocean liners
- Merchant Marine -- United States
- Ships -- Far Eastern
- Rivers
- Transportation -- river boat
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Merchant Marine
- Harbors
- Trade associations
- Transportation -- 1900-1910
- Boats and boating
- Water transport -- 18th century
- Boats -- Southeast Asia
- Cargo
- Local transit -- New York (N.Y.)
- Sailboats
- Waterways
- Sailing
- Transportation -- New York (N.Y.)
- Local transit
- Scientific expeditions
- Water transfer
- Transportation -- History
- Wharves
- Steamboats
- Boats -- New York (N.Y.)
- Transportation
- Public health
- Marine engineers
- Ocean travel
- Seamen -- 1910-1920
- Musical performances
- Transportation -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Merchant seamen
- Marine engineering
- Models and modelmaking
- Navigation
- Seamen -- 1940-1950
- Travel
- Importers
- Shipping
- Cruise ships
- Ships -- New York (N.Y.)
- Flags
- Exports -- 19th century
- Provenance
- Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels] 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.
- Creator
- Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- See more items in
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels]
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Summary
- 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
- Extent
- 10.22 Cubic feet (consisting of 20 boxes, 2 folders, 9 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 3 flat boxes (2 full, 1 partial.))
- Date
- 1777-1965
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Steamboats
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Menus
- Bills
- Ships' passenger lists
- Patents
- Legislative documents
- Photographs
- Advertisements
- Advertising mail
- Advertising
- Illustrations
- Contracts
- Trademarks
- Inspections
- Programs
- Advertising cards
- Advertising fliers
- Print advertising
- Legal documents
- Travelogs
- Souvenir programs
- Business cards
- Concert programs
- Publications
- Commercial correspondence
- Correspondence
- Receipts
- Theater programs
- Business records
- Legal records
- Business ephemera
- Invoices
- Bills of sale
- Ships' logs
- Technical reports
- Reports
- Letterheads
- Ephemera
- Design patents
- Travel brochures
- Legislation (legal concepts)
- Business letters
- Timetables
- Travel diaries
- Printed ephemera
- Citation
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ships, Boats, and Vessels, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Arrangement
- Ships, Boats, and Vessels is arranged in three subseries. Business Records and Marketing Material General Maritime Businesses Operation Records of Named Vessels Shipping Lines/Conglomerates Miscellaneous Business Records and Marketing Material Genre Keepsakes Images Ledger Legal News Clippings Regulatory Reports Serial Publications Stamps/Cigarette Cards Associations and Societies Images, Artwork, Racing, Technical Literature Subject Battleships, Warships Destination Guides Employment and Licensing Insurance Maritime History Maritime Models and Art Revue Generale Des Sciences Warshaw Administrative Records
- Processing Information
- In November 2016, the name of this category was modified from "Steamboats" to "Steamboats [Ships, Boats, and Vessels] to reflect the scope of the content and the integration of two, now obsolete, categories: Sailboats and Ships/Shipping, although a few items leisure type items were moved to Yachts. 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 Nicole Blechynden, 2017 February.
- 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.
- Genre/Form
- Menus -- Ships -- 1940-1950
- Menus
- Bills
- Ships' passenger lists
- Patents
- Legislative documents
- Photographs
- Advertisements
- Advertising mail
- Advertising
- Illustrations
- Contracts
- Trademarks
- Inspections
- Programs
- Advertising cards
- Advertising fliers
- Print advertising
- Legal documents
- Travelogs
- Souvenir programs
- Business cards
- Concert programs
- Publications
- Commercial correspondence
- Correspondence
- Receipts
- Theater programs
- Publications -- Business
- Business records
- Legal records
- Business ephemera
- Invoices
- Bills of sale
- Ships' logs
- Technical reports
- Reports
- Letterheads
- Ephemera
- Design patents
- Travel brochures
- Legislation (legal concepts)
- Business letters
- Timetables
- Travel diaries
- Printed ephemera
- Scope and Contents
- Minimally covers the terminus of the wind-powered (sail) era and more fully documents the peak of the engine (steam) era of commercial cargo and passenger vesselsk, including freight and dockage services, maintenance and provisioning, ferry service, navigation (tug and tow) assistance, plus leisure cruising and touring. There is not a significant amount of material on battle or war ships. Includes both short distance routes such as lakes, rivers, and islets, and longer trans-oceanic crossings. Documents within the collection consist of handbills, broadsides, leaflets, books, business cards, advertisements, insurance forms, wreck reports, passenger lists, baggage tags, freight manifests, rate cards, correspondence on letterhead stationery, booklets, newspaper clippings, postcards, menus, periodicals, manuals, photographs, engravings, woodcuts, sketches, bills of lading, receipts, catalogues, ledgers, journals, purchase orders, broadsides, brochures, custom forms, schedules, shipping and receiving documents, early steam guides, timetables, lithographs, announcements, etc. There are no navigational nautical maps. There is very little in the way of international import/export records. However, domestic and North American freight services are well-covered through invoices, bills of lading, manifests, and receipts for goods and services. Some materials cover the history and development of steamships, particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century with the iron screw replacing the wooden paddle steamer in the 1850s. The late 1860s brought the compound engine, which led to the steamship, previously used for the conveyance of mails and passengers, to compete with the sailing vessel in the carriage of cargo for long voyages. The 1870s brought improvements in accommodation for the passenger, with the midship saloon, conveniences in state-rooms, and covered access to smoke rooms and ladies cabins. Ownership of specific lines and vessels was very fluid throughout shipping history, including the renaming of vessels. Mergers, dissolution, and absorption of fleets were frequent. Thus, researchers should independently seek out a more detailed history for any entity of particular interest. The general maritime business series focuses on good and services related to maritime operations such as repair, shipbuilding, parts, ticket agents, chandlers, groceries, coal supply, dockage, wharfs/marinas, etc. Operation records of named vessels contains primarily bills of lading and similar receipts for the movement of material goods or in-water services such as tow and tug assistance. The largest series covering shipping lines and conglomerates offers a wide assortment of miscellaneous, nonexhaustive operation records for cargo and passenger lines and corporations, typically those with multiple holdings. These documents may include receipts, bills of lading, correspondence, and financial ledgers, plus promotional material for services and routes offered. Passenger sailings and luxury cruise documentation may contain menus, passenger lists, itineraries, shore excursion information, souveniers such as luggage tags, ticket stubs, and postcards. See also the subject category Menus, for additional examples of passenger and cruise ship menus. When not associated with any of the above, general examples of materials related to the industry have been by arranged by their material type such as images, reports, and serial publications. More formal documentation, especially legal and reports, can be found here. Narrative type materials related to lore, history, and building and design specifications have been sorted by subject. A scarce amount of material covers ships used for military service. Likewise, there are a few examples of maritime related material from the art world, mostly in the form of catalogues for exhibits or auction of paintings and scale models. A note on vessel names: those used as contract carriers of mail and when in service, were entitled to unique prefix designations such as Royal Mail Ship (RMS.), otherwise, the ship name may be preceded by the more generic S.S. for single-screw steamer or steamship, SV for sailing vessel, PS for paddle steamer, RV for research vessel or similar type prefix. USS is the standard for the United States Navy commissioned ships while in commission, with HMS used for His/Her Majesty's Ship of the British Royal Navy. Some of the major lines/companies represented in the collection include: American Line, American Steamship Company, Anchor Line, Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Cunard-Anchor Line, Cunard Line, Cunard Steam Ship Company, Limited, Cunard White Star Line, Eastern Steamship Lines, Furness, Withy & Company, Hamburg American Line (HAPAG) / Hamburg Amerika Linie, Holland America Line (N.A.S.M. / HAL), Inman Line, International Mercantile Marine Company (IMM), International Navigation Company, North German Lloyd (Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen), Panama Pacific Line, Peninsular and Oriental, Red Star Line, Royal Mail Steam Packet, U.S. Mail Steamship Company, United States Lines, White Star Line.
- Restrictions
- Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562726408127-1562726408159-0
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