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Size of this preview: 420 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 168 × 240 pixels | 336 × 480 pixels ... English: 1896 library card for the Old Main Library, Cincinnati.
Catalog cards were 2 by 5 inches (5 cm × 13 cm); the Harvard College size. One of the first acts of the newly formed American Library Association in 1908 was to set standards for the size of the cards used in American libraries, thus making their manufacture and the manufacture of cabinets, uniform. [12]
Size of this preview: ... English: The Old Library, now Dwight Hall, Yale University. Taken by William Henry Jackson circa 1901. ... Cropped to photo dimensions: 04: ...
An index card in a library card catalog.This type of cataloging has mostly been supplanted by computerization. A hand-written American index card A ruled index card. An index card (or record card in British English and system cards in Australian English) consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data.
These two cards were filed together with the date stamped in the book. These cards are "tickets" that are arranged in trays by date of issue and within date by the key on the card. When the book was returned, the user's card was removed from the file of the day indicated by the stamp and given back, and the book card was replaced in the book.
Library card for the National Central Library in Taiwan. A library card can refer to several cards traditionally used for the management of books and patrons in a library. In its most common use, a library card serves similar functions as a corporate membership card. A person who holds a library card has borrowing or other privileges associated ...
A typical 1940s–early 1950s black-and-white real photo postcard. A real photo postcard (RPPC) is a continuous-tone photographic image printed on postcard stock. The term recognizes a distinction between the real photo process and the lithographic or offset printing processes employed in the manufacture of most postcard images.
The last cabinet cards were produced in the 1920s, even as late as 1924. Owing to the larger image size, the cabinet card steadily increased in popularity during the second half of the 1860s and into the 1870s, replacing the carte de visite as the most popular form of portraiture. The cabinet card was large enough to be easily viewed from ...