Card catalogs had their own elegant standardized handwriting

I still have a stack of typed library cards in my office. I occasionally use the blank side for taking notes although as the stack dwindles I become more and more possessive of them–especially the ones that have Cyrillic lettering which always fascinates me. No one’s around anymore who can tell me how they decided where in the alphabet to file those.

If I had handwritten ones I’d have 'em framed.

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