Here's something to be grateful for next time you upgrade your home office; you no longer need heavy machinery to accomplish the job.
This undated photograph from around the 1950s shows workers delivering an early computer to the Marine Trust Company building in Buffalo, New York. It comes from a partially digitized folder of 8 photographic prints documenting the delivery, which required a flatbed truck and a crane to hoist the equipment up the side of the building.
The photographs are part of Hagley Library's Tim Bergin collection of UNIVAC/ENIAC materials (Accession 2806), which are now one of our newest digital collections. In 1996, Bergin, an emeritus professor of computer science and information systems, and former curator/director of the Computer History Museum, served as historian for the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) 50th Anniversary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There, he met Armand Adams (1917-), a retired electrical engineer who had been the chief engineer at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
Later that same year, Bergin and Adams served on the program committee for the Army's 50th Anniversary of Computing. Adams donated materials to the Computer History Museum, and these materials remained with Bergin upon his retirement. Bergin also obtained other historical materials from several other computer pioneers.
This personal collection consists of research reports, booklets, published articles, lecture notes, objects, and audiovisual materials that describe the development of the EDVAC, ENIAC, and UNIVAC computers, and is now in the collections at Hagley. It has not been digitized in is entirety, but you can view a selection of digitized materials, including other photographs from this delivery, by clicking here.