Filing Cabinets

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  5/10/2021
  

  The Filing Cabinet: A Material History

  by Craig Robertson

  The humble filing cabinet in fact tells the story of the rise of bureaucratic structures in capitalism and government, and the potential for information to be used efficiently – or weaponized. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-22-14
  

  The Secret History of Filing Cabinets

  by Paul Krugman

  Boxes or drawers were one possibility, but they still involved a lot of shuffling, and relevant letters could easily be overlooked. The answer? The vertical file, with a tab indicating the contents of each folder.