Index Collection

Dewey Decimal System
Card index showing use of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the most widely used library classification system, devised by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s

Schweitzer Albert 1875 1965 Franco French German
schweitzer, albert, 1875, 1965, franco, french, german, alsatian, theology, theologian, organist, philosophy, philosopher, doctor, medical, physician, hospital, founded, lambarene, equatorial

Top Spinning on Finger Date: 1950

Mile-index for cabs 1847
Patent mile-index, simple ingenious contrivance for measuring and indicating the distance travelled by wheel carriage, was invented and patented by H

Eastbourne Public Library, Sussex, England, a truly modern integrated library, the Reference Library being on the same shelves as the rest of the books. Date: 1960s

Index et catalogus librorum prohibitorum (Index and catalog of Prohibited Books). List of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church to protect the faith

WPA Index of American Design exhibition Watercolor renderings of crewel embroidery. Poster announcing exhibition of embroidery designs in watercolors at the Federal Art Gallery, 77 Newbury St

Card Index Filing
File cards in the Shannon Alphabetical and Numerical System of Vertical Filing

A Sqdn Tanks
Photograph: A Sqdn Tanks. Shows a row of tanks. From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)

Censorship in the book Ratione Conscribendi Epistle by Erasm
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536). Dutch humanist. Ratione Conscribendi Epistles. Page with censorship and registration by the censor of the Inquisition, 1747. Basel edition, 1522. Episcopal Library

Diderot / Page from Index
A page from the index Date: first published 1751

Advert for Wooton Cabinet 1884
The Desk of the Age, hundred-and-ten compartments all under one lock and key. Date: 1884

Advert for Antonio Ferretti office furniture 1921
Diagram of Italian office furniture in 1921. 1921

General view of Index, Washington, USA
General view of Index, Snohomish County, Washington, USA. Date: circa 1918

View of Index, Washington, USA
View of Index, Snohomish County, Washington, USA, showing the Grand View Hotel run by John Maloney, Proprietor. Date: 1912

LCC-LFB Control Room at Lambeth HQ SE1
Brigade control was located in the basement of the Headquarters building. A view of the card index rotary drums that recorded the address of every London thoroughfare

Exhibition - drawings from Index of American Design Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration. Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of drawings from the Index of American Design

Exhibition Index of American Design. Poster for WPA exhibition of Index of American Design at the Chicago Historical Society. Date 1941

National exhibition Index of American Design. Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition Index of American Design at Marshall Field and Co. 4th floor, showing an 18th century sailor using a sextant

Index of American Design. Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of art work from the Index of American Design, at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass

Poe / Tales of Mystery
Drawing of a demon (over the index of illustrations). Date: 19th century

An Underground Drinking Cellar, San Francisco, 1884
Engraving showing an underground drinking cellar with, in the background, a stock index board marked on the wall, San Francisco, 1884

Man Writing in Ledger
A young man making an entry in a ledger with a fountain pen. He sits at a desk with a wire in-tray and stacks of card index drawers behind him

Putney Junior Library
An orderly scene at Putney Junior Library, where Story Hour is held every alternative Thursday at 4.45 precisely. Smartly-dressed, well-behaved children frequent the library

Bewick / Zebra
(equus burchelli) Along with the aardvark, this relative of the horse is assured of a place in every index of animals, albeit at different ends

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