ComputerLand NYC Store Images
date: label: date made
content: 1981
notes: label: Description
content: These four color Polaroid photographs, taken in 1981, show the interior of the first ComputerLand store to open in Manhattan. James Egan was one of four owners.
label: Description
content: In the first pair of images, Egan is the man in the light brown suit and the man kneeling in front of three people in ViewSonic bird costumes.
label: Description
content: The second pair of images are of interior views of the store with customers browsing.
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
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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: 2017.3153.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3153
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3153.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photographs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.7 cm x 8.8 cm; 4 7/32 in x 3 15/32 in