Filing kit, dictation
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- OBJECT TYPE
- DISK
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.1515.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Edison, Thomas A. Inc.
- MODEL
- VOICEWRITER
- LOCATION
- West Orange, New Jersey, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 6
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- PAPER FOLDER, ENVELOPES AND INDEX SLIPS; SYNTHETIC DISKS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 30.6 cm
- Width
- 23.4 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Office equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Edison
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New Jersey
- City
- West Orange
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- UNUSED - THIS TYPE WOULD HAVE BEEN USED IN THE 1950S
- Canada
-
PART OF A COLLECTION FROM THE ESTATE OF WILFRED HAROLD OLSON, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF DOMINION WIDE PHOTOGRAPHY LTD., OTTAWA (1952-1995). MR. OLSON WAS A PHOTOGRAPHER FOR MANY YEARS AND HIS STUDIO DID WORK FOR BOTH THE OTTAWA JOURNAL AND THE CBC AS WELL AS OTHER CLIENTS. - Function
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USED TO STORE RECORDED DICTATING DISCS AND THEIR CORRESPONDING INDEX SLIPS IN A SYSTEMATIC MANNER SO THAT THEY CAN BE EASILY RETRIEVED - THESE ONES ARE UNUSED BUT ARE MEANT TO BE USED IN THIS MANNER - Technical
-
EXAMPLE OF A FILING SYSTEM DEVELOPED TO FIT THE TECHNOLOGY OF THETIME - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 FRONT COVER: 'EDISON/ Voicewriter/ SYSTEMS FOLDER/ for/ NAME'/ INSIDE: 'KEYMATIC INDEX SLIP/ EDISON DIAMOND DISC/ CORRESPONDENCE/ MEAD'S 63726'/ BACK COVER: [SAME AS FRONT EXCEPT] 'Thomas A Edison/ INCORPORATED/ WEST ORANGE, N.J.'/.6 INDEX SLIP: 'RECORDER NO 77327/ EDISON/ VOICEWRITER/ REMARKS SECRETARY DICTATOR DATE...'/.2 -5 envelope no markings but DISCs: 'EDISON DIAMOND DISC A NO/ Made IN U.S.A./ [REVERSE] Thomas A Edison B THOMAS A EDISON, INCORPORATED/ WEST ORANGE, N.J.'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- FOLDER: LIGHT BROWN WITH DARK BROWN PRINTING/ ENVELOPES: BROWN/ INDEX SLIPS: WHITE WITH BLACK PRINTING/ DISKS: BRIGHT RED WITH WHITE PRINTING
- Decoration
- DISC DRAWN ON FRONT OF FOLDER
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Edison, Thomas A. Inc., Filing kit, dictation, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1995.1515, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.1515.001/
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