Lamson Cash Carrier Video Documentation
name: label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Creator
content: Worthington, Bill
label: Names
content: Lowns Department Store.
label: Names
content: Curbeau, James
place: label: Place
content: Penn Yan (N.Y.) -- 19th century
topic: label: Topic
content: Cash registers -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Cashiers -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Department stores -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Inventions -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Money
label: Topic
content: Sales accounting -- 19th century
label: Topic
content: Sales personnel -- 19th century
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Video documentation was created by the Lemelson Center and National Museum of American History staff, Bill Worthington, Division of Work and Industry (formerly Division of History of Technology) in September 1995.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Creator
content: Worthington, Bill
setName: label: See more items in
content: Lamson Cash Carrier Video Documentation
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: James Curbeau owned and operated the store.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 October
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collection was transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Work and Industry on July 8, 1997.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0606
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videotapes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Divided into 3 series.

Series 1: Original videos, 1995

Series 2: Master videos, 1995

Series 3: Reference videos, 1995
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, 1997.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Master videos digitized in 2015.  See repository for details.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Videotapes -- 1990-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This videohistory documents the operation of a 19th-century mechanical cash carrier system used in a Penn Yan, New York department store.