Visible file

A visible file, sometimes just called a kardex, after a prominent purveyor, is a filing system for overlapping cards fixed in shallow drawers.

The best-known version was commercialized by Kardex.

Kardex filing cabinets, 20th century

The Library Bureau company commercialized the very similar L. B. Speedac.[1]

Another brand was the Index Visible System.

Notes

  1. The Magazine of Business 47:294 (1925)
gollark: <@199585701547868160> I can't seem to go on urn street, did you block me from the claim?
gollark: \` \` \`abcd\` \` \`(remove the spaces)
gollark: Also, you can make nice looking code blocks by putting three backticks at the start and end of your code:```abcd```
gollark: _is horrified at the lack of indentation_
gollark: We do.
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