Its letter filing cabinets had patent dates from 1878 to 1896. name appears to have been resurrected later,īecause the latter company published an office supplies catalog in By 1893, theĬompany name changed to Amberg Letter & File Co. In 1881, 1,000 firms were using its cabinets. The metal devices in some of its drawers bear an 1878 patentĭate. In 1876, its Cabinet Letter Files were awarded a medal at the CentennialĮxposition. (Asher & Adams' Pictorial Album of American Industry 1876). was established in 1868 and made its first Cabinet Letter Files inġ875, when they won an award from the American Institute, New York, NY. DrawersĬontained metal devices to hold papers in place as well as alphabetical dividers, e.g., the A drawer would have aĭivider for Aa to Ac followed by a divider for Ad to Ae, etc.Ĭameron Amberg & Co. Letter Filing Cabinets have file drawers in which papers were stored horizontally, that is, lying flat. Go to the Early Office Museum page on Safes, "cabinet safes," which were filing cabinets inside comparatively In the 1910s, some companies were supplying Over time the share of filing cabinets made of metal increased while the share Steel filingĬabinets were advertised as "absolute protection against loss of your The earliest advertisement we have for metal file cabinets is from 1886. All the types of filing cabinets shown below were produced in wood.
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