Filing cabinets come in vertical and lateral types and can be made of wood, plastic or other materials.

The filing cabinet took hold in American offices just as skyscrapers were emerging as a symbol of booming capitalism.

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Metal filing cabinets first appeared during the 1920s, when document storage shifted from horizontal to space-saving vertical models. Much like the skyscrapers of the day, the idea that taller was ...

Lateral file cabinets typically have a body that is more than 25 inches wide and have a width that is greater than the body depth. Also excluded from the scope are pedestal file cabinets.

This 48-drawer filing cabinet was used to store folded business mail in the late 19th century. But mail is now filed in page-size folders in a file with much larger drawers.

Thankfully, the market for file storage has expanded beyond industrial metal cabinets to include upholstered, wooden, colorful or patterned containers.

This doesn’t require any fancy cabinet organizers, either. In this 2018 Today Show segment, Stewart says that replacing horizontal storage using simple file folder organizers will do the trick.