ComputerLand Photograph
ComputerLand Photograph
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- Description
- This 8" x 10" black and white photograph shows four men with a ComputerLand poster behind them and a continuous feed matrix printer in front of them. James Egan is the man on the right. The other men are likely his three partners, Joseph Alfieri, Robert Kurland, and Thomas Vandermeulen.
- James Egan, Joseph Alfieri, Robert Kurland, and Thomas Vandermeulen of Facks Computer, Inc. were the owners of the first ComputerLand store in Manhattan.
- 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.
- The objects in accession 2017.0321 and non-accession 2017.3153 are related.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.2 cm x 25.2 cm; 7 15/16 in x 9 29/32 in
- ID Number
- 2017.3153.04
- nonaccession number
- 2017.3153
- catalog number
- 2017.3153.04
- Credit Line
- In memory of James S. Egan
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Science & Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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