Every organization has its share of paper ephemera – those programs, booklets, tickets, receipts, advertisements, instructions, flyers, training materials, and other bits and pieces which comprise the fragments of everyday life.
Here is an interesting piece from our collection.
Like a lot of paper ephemera, it was intended to serve only a short-term purpose, in this case to help familiarize law enforcement with a standard set of abbreviations to use when fingerprinting.
This booklet is undated but we have a clue within it to help us connect it to its time period.
On page ten of the booklet, we see a reference to the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
With that single reference, we can state with confidence that this booklet was printed in 1959 or later.