id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-25269 Allen, Caleb Craig Robertson. The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 280p. Paper, $27.95 (ISBN 978-1517909468). 2022-01-03 3 .pdf application/pdf 1778 67 46 This operation was considered, both by the man- agers of business using filing cabinets as well as the sales departments of the filing cabinet manufacturers, to be so logical as to be practically automatic. Other out- standing surprises include a panoply of amusing images—early advertisements depicting men jumping into open filing cabinet drawers to demonstrate just how well-built a particular cabinet is, disembodied and shapely hands caught in the act of opening a file drawer (sex, as always, seems to sell), ridiculous cartoons—and even a poem gently mocking secretaries making filing errors while distracted by the thought of after-work dates and other frivolities. cache/crl-25269.pdf txt/crl-25269.txt