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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.
Edge-notched cards were used for course scheduling in some high schools and colleges. [11] Keysort cards were also used in World War II codebreaking. The Stasi used edge-notched cards (German: Kerblochkarteikarten) from 1965 to index information including details of staff, crimes, people under surveillance, and vehicles. Cards often stored ...
The original image of the index card, posted to Pollack's blog. In April 2013, Pollack interviewed Olen about her book Pound Foolish, and metaphorically mentioned "that the best [financial] advice for most people would fit on an index card.” [1] [2] Pollack further said, "if you're paying someone for advice, almost by definition, you're probably getting the wrong advice because the correct ...
A visible file or kardex (a generic trademark referring to a prominent purveyor) is a filing system for overlapping cards fixed in shallow drawers. A version was commercialized by Kardex. The Library Bureau company commercialized the similar L. B. Speedac, [1] while yet another brand was the Index Visible System. The ACME Visual File system was ...
A Rolodex file used in the 1970s. A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store a contact list.Its name, a portmanteau of the words "rolling" and "index", has become somewhat genericized for any personal organizer performing this function, or as a metonym for a total accumulation of business contacts.
Counter cards: Greeting cards that are sold individually. This contrasts with boxed cards. [1] Standard A standard greeting card is printed on high-quality paper (such as card stock), and is rectangular and folded, with a picture or decorative motif on the front. Inside is a pre-printed message appropriate for the occasion, along with a blank ...
"Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...
The FBI Indexes, or Index List, was a system used to track American citizens and other people by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before the adoption of computerized databases. The Index List was originally made of paper index cards, first compiled by J. Edgar Hoover at the Bureau of Investigations before he was appointed director of ...