A4 Clipboard
“We need to record words for our learning.”
Filex
Do my folders date from the 1940s? I have no idea.
Barton Keyes’s office
From the film Double Indemnity. Three telephones, a Dictaphone, extra cylinders, books, papers, a desk calendar, wall charts, and file cabinets. Oh, those file cabinets.
At the Queen Street Police Station
A glimpse of office life from Niagara (dir. Henry Hathaway, 1953).
Art Store
Art Store, by the artist Barry Fellman, recreates the now-defunct Pearl Paint flasgship store
Art and supplies
Oscar’s Portrait explores the relationship between art and supplies.
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James Ward’s supplies.
James Ward’s supplies
Tidy up and send those supplies to me.
On paper clips
Taking paper clips seriously has made me look strange to people who should know better.
“Avoid haphazard writing materials”
Walter Benjamin’s advice
Rolodex
Cooper-Hewitt’s Object of the Day.
Naked City Rolodex
Is it really a Rolodex? This device might have to be called a rotational address-retrieval management system.
My dad on supplies
“It is better to be oversupplied than undersupplied.”
WCW’s stars
Paper key tags.
Paterfamilias repurposing
“My dad too likes to repurpose household items as ‘supplies.’ These paper-clip cups once capped shaving-cream cans.”
Repurposed cupcake pan
From Cool Tools, a repurposed cupcake pan, now holding nuts and bolts and washers. Nifty.
“Your Best Buy’s Mongol” (and other buys)
From Life magazine, 1956.