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A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
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gist
The Center for Land Use Interpretation presents a 13-slide gallery of photographed rolodex cards rather than a catalog essay. Each slide is numbered; the first photograph is a Gardner Cryogenics Corporation card for Albert F. Cox, a cryogenic sales engineer in Glendale, California. Two notches cut into the bottom edge mark it as a rotary-file card, a desk tool from the lab's vendor network. The page treats those physical cards as the collection.
ideas
- The gallery is the catalog. Thirteen numbered photographs stand in for a written inventory; CLUI publishes the cards themselves.
- A rolodex card is hardware. The first card's two bottom notches show a rotary-file interface, not a wallet card.
- Vendors had products and cities, not lab titles. Gardner Cryogenics' Albert F. Cox is a Glendale sales engineer selling into Los Alamos.
- Corporate marks are the other record. The mid-century Gardner logo is why the cards are photographed as graphic objects.