The calendar stopped in June, although the office remained open until November. Visitors assumed the final worker died in June. Curator Rian found a letter dated October in the same room, contradicting that account.
The calendar photograph showed a bay where the worker's daughter lived. He left it on June for the picture and wrote current appointments on loose cards. The printed month had ceased to function as a date display long before the office closed.
His daughter supplied a postcard showing the same stretch of water from another angle. He never visited, but he described the calendar view in letters as though it helped him understand where she walked after work.
Rian displayed the calendar with one of the later appointment cards. The pairing prevented a decorative preference from becoming a false death date. It also explained why a man working among industrial schedules kept one conspicuously inaccurate calendar: its usefulness lay in the distant place above the numbers, not in the month beneath it.