Table of Contents
- Title
- Collection overview
- Scope & content
- Access points
- Arrangement
- Biographical/Historical note
- Access & use
- Administrative information
- Additional information
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Inventory
- Series 1 Poster stamps
- Series 2 Labels
- Series 3 Postcards
- Series 4 Starch
- Series 5 Washboards and wringers
- Series 6 Washers and clotheslines
- Series 7 Soaps
- Series 8 Ammonia, bleach, bluing and crystals
- Series 9 Covers, billheads and letterheads
- Series 10 Blotters, advertising calendars and laundries
- Series 11 Dyes, irons, and lye
- Series 12 Ethnic
- Series 13 Laundry related booklets
- Series 14 Photographs
- Series 15 Mechanicals, metamorphic, die-cut and valentines
- Series 16 Matchbook covers, wax (paraffin) and puzzles
- Series 17 Miscellaneous booklets, broadsides and pamphlets
- Series 18 Miscellaneous advertising trade cards, ephemera and photographs
- Series 19 Miscellaneous non-trade card advertising
- Series 20 Shapiro acquisition and research
- Series 21 Procter & Gamble history
- Series 22 Large format advertising
- Series 23 Miscellaneous and unusually sized items
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Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera (MS.2014.002)
Brown University Library
Box ABrown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
Administrative Information
ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
Acquisition: | The Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera was donated to the Brown University Library by Joseph S. Shapiro in 2010. |
ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
Author: | Finding aid prepared by Mary A. Harrison. |
Encoding: | This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-05-05 |
Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |