Chances are, if you’re over fifty, you once used one of their card catalogues. In this RPPC view taken while the fire still smoldered, you can see the shop front of Yawman & Erbe, who manufactured desks, file cabinets and other quality furniture for office and libraries. Located in the Loop on Wabash Avenue, the fire quickly rose through several floors and spread to adjacent buildings. Yawman & Erbe NY Oak 1920 Antique File.On the afternoon of Tuesday, January 29th, 1908, fire broke out in the boiler room of the Alfred Peats Co., manufacturer of exclusive wallpapers. Stacking Quarter Sawn Oak 18 Drawer Antique File Cabinet, 1918 Yawman NY.
Vintage Yawman & Erbe Wood Card File Two Drawer Cabinet Rustic Primitive.
Yawman & Erbe Oak Card File / Antique Single Drawer. 'The Use of Spanish by Medical Students and Residents at One University Hospital'. Yawman D McIntosh S Fernandez DI Auinger P Allan M Weitzman M. Earliest advertisement 1876 Earliest patent 1878 Amberg's Letter File with tambour cover closed and open and inside of drawer. S Letter Filing Cabinets received awards in 1882-83. Globe Files Co.' Chevalier et camelot isopure. Name appears to have been resurrected later, because the latter company published an office supplies catalog in 1930.) Shortly thereafter, its letter filing cabinets had patent dates from 1878 to 1896. By 1893, the company 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 patent date. In 1876, its Cabinet Letter Files were awarded a medal at the Centennial Exposition. (Asher & Adams' Pictorial Album of American Industry 1876). Was established in 1868 and made its first Cabinet Letter Files in 1875, when they won an award from the American Institute, New York, NY. Drawers contained metal devices to hold papers in place as well as alphabetical dividers, e.g., the A drawer would have a divider for Aa to Ac followed by a divider for Ad to Ae, etc. Letter Filing Cabinet Letter Filing Cabinets have file drawers in which papers were stored horizontally, that is, lying flat. Go to the Early Office Museum page on, and scroll to the bottom. In the 1910s, some companies were supplying 'cabinet safes,' which were filing cabinets inside comparatively lightweight safes. Over time the share of filing cabinets made of metal increased while the share made of wood decreased. Steel filing cabinets were advertised as 'absolute protection against loss of your records by fire' (1906). The earliest advertisement we have for metal file cabinets is from 1886. Early Filing Cabinets Antique Filing Cabinets All the types of filing cabinets shown below were produced in wood.
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