Word: cards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Found - In the library, a card-case containing photographs. Apply at the desk...
Found - In the library, a card-case containing photographs. Apply at the desk...
...Harvard Library was the first to adopt the "card catalogue" system...
...unable to see what is to prevent the payment of the money as soon as the article is sold. Everybody knows when it is likely to be bought, and there seems to be no necessity at all for waiting a week or so to send a postal card. The society might keep a book in which every article sold second-hand would be entered; arrange the names of the members alphabetically, so that a sale could be easily determined, and allow it to be open to public inspection. This would cause much less trouble to both parties. In such matters...
This poem is said to be unpublished. There is also a book published in Mexico in 1566 and the card states that the library contains no book printed in America before this. Perhaps the most interesting of Americana is the "earliest engraved map" which was supposed to follow the map made by Columbus, now lost. The date...