Thursday, 7 May 2015

The Existential Conundrum That Is the American Waste Paper Basket

image credit Library of Congress

'The Paradox of the Waste Paper Basket' by Jos Legrand, a historian from the Netherlands. Paradox is a concise history of the trash receptacles used in American offices between 1870 and 1930. You know, exactly the sort of thing you'd expect a retired Dutch art-history teacher to be passionate about.

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