Burroughs Corporation Records. Early Office Machine Photographs, 1907-1939. Finding Aid.

Summary Information

Title: Burroughs Corporation records. Early office machine photographs
Dates: 1907-1939
Creator: Burroughs Corporation
Extent: 3 boxes (0.75 cubic feet)
Language: English
Collection Number: CBI 90, Series 33
Abstract:

Collection contains black and white photographs and a few black and white and color negatives featuring many of Burroughs' early adding machines, calculators, listing machines, and typewriters.

Repository: University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.

Access and Use

Acquisition Information:

The records were given to the Charles Babbage Institute by Unisys Corporation in 1991, accession 991-35.

Access Restrictions:

Access to the collection is unrestricted.

Copyright:

The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred Citation:

Burroughs Corporation Collection, Early Office Machine Photographs (CBI 90), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains black and white photographs and a few black and white and color negatives featuring many of Burroughs' early adding machines, calculators, listing machines, and typewriters. While all the machines in this collection and a portion of the images date within the collection span dates, many of the photographs appear to have been taken decades later.

Related Material

This is one series of the Burroughs Corporation Records (CBI 90). Please see the other series finding aids for further information regarding the Burroughs Corporation.

Subject Terms

Index Terms

• This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
• Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
• Burroughs Corporation.
• Office equipment and supplies industry -- Pictorial works

Box and Folder List

Location		Title
Box 1		Adding Machine, undated.  Box 1, Folder 1
		Bookkeeping Machine, undated.  Box 1, Folder 2
		Cash Registers, 1932-1939.  Box 1, Folder 3
		Early Models, numbered, 1910-1920.  Box 1, Folder 4
		Early Models, unnumbered, 1908-1915 Box 1, Folder 5-7
		Historical Miscellaneous File, undated.  Box 1, Folder 8
		Machine Class 8, undated.  Box 1, Folder 9
		Machine Class 9, undated.  Box 1, Folder 10
		Machine Class 10, undated.  Box 1, Folder 11
		Machine Model (Style) #1, Undated.  Box 2, Folder 1
		Machine Model (Style) #3, undated.  Box 2, Folder 2
		Machine Model (Style) #4, undated.  Box 2, Folder 3
		Machine Model (Style) #5, undated.  Box 2, Folder 4
		Machine Model (Style) #6, undated.  Box 2, Folder 5
		Manufacturing Equipment, undated.  Box 2, Folder 6
		Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine, undated.  Box 2, Folder 7
		Payroll Segregators, undated.  Box 2, Folder 8
		Typewriters [nitrate negatives], undated.  Box 2, Folder 9
Box 3		Typewriter-Adding Machines [glass negatives], 1907.  Box 3