Timecard File Rack
notes: label: Description
content: This is a wooden timecard file rack with 25 metal slots to hold timecards. Timecards were used by workers as they checked out of their workplace, and the cards that would have been on this rack were used at the I. Bedichimer and Co. Jewelry Company.
label: Description
content: It was founded in 1865 by Isaac Bedichimer, who had emigrated to the US from Russia in 1860. The business came to specialize in fraternal jewelry—the pins and emblems for organizations like the Masons and the Elks.
label: Description
content: The business was operated by the family until 1948, when the last family member passed away. Ross Sellers purchased it from a man who was a partner of the last Bedichimer, and ran it until the 1980s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ross Sellers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0354.03
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0354.03
label: accession number
content: 1986.0354
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Timecard File Rack
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 35 in; 13.335 cm x 5.715 cm x 88.9 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 92.71 cm x 13.335 cm x 6.35 cm