Monday! May 19 2003 // 4:05 pm //
”The Early Office Museum engages in research on the evolution of offices and business technology based on original documents and artifacts.”
Lead pencils, of course, contain no lead
Heap of Papers
some offices that make me think i don’t mind so much working in a cube: (including the captions provided by the museum detailing the objects that make the photos valuable to the study of early offices)
- Grimmestad Land and Loan Office, Belview, Minn., c. 1895. Photograph includes desk phone, seal presses, wall clock, wall safe containing ledgers, kerosene lamp, and stuffed deer head.
- Norfolk and Western Railway office, no date. Picture includes Remington typewriter, rubber stamp rack, and electric lighting.
- Office at agricultural business, Ewing, Missouri, 1914. Large sign on desk reads “W. K. Boudreau, Ewing, MO.” Date is from wall calendar advertising a St. Louis, MO, grain merchant. Other advertisements on wall are for seed and a livestock merchant. There are two wall telephones.
- Filing Section, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, c. 1920.
- Works Progress Administration Census Project. Historical Records Survey workers wearing masks while inventorying and surveying records in sub-cellar below river level
things i wouldn’t mind getting for christmas:
- The Blickensderfer Electric was introduced in 1902. Rotation of the type-wheel, backspacer, line spacer, and margin stop were powered by an electric motor.
(and by the looks of this illustration, it will free us from the oppression of the class system, too)
4 3/8” high. This machine is the predecessor of the Hotchkiss No. 1.
This stapler was sold both with and without the tail. The purpose of the tail was to hold extra staples.
(my nomination for Cutest Stapler Ever)
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