ComputerLand Photograph
date: label: date made
content: 1981-1982
notes: label: Description
content: This 5" x 7" black and white photograph shows James Egan sitting at a desk with computers and software on it. He has a foot on the desk, a coffee filter on his head, and is pouring a drink into a cup. Next to his chair is a sign that reads: SEND HELP. On the back, written in pencil, are the dates 1981-1982.
label: Description
content: James Egan, Joseph Alfieri, Robert Kurland, and Thomas Vandermeulen of Facks Computer, Inc. were the owners of the first ComputerLand store in Manhattan.
label: Description
content: ComputerLand was a nationwide chain of retail computer stores. They opened their first store in 1976 in Hayward, California. By 1990 most stores had closed and in early 1999 the company officially disbanded.
label: Description
content: The objects in accession 2017.0321 and non-accession 2017.3153 are related.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In memory of James S. Egan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3153.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3153
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3153.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.6 cm x 17.8 cm; 4 31/32 in x 7 in