Pamphlet, The Hustler, a Publication of National Cash Register Company
date: label: date made
content: 1893
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1884, John H. Patterson bought control of a fledgling cash register manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio, and changed the name of the firm to National Cash Register Company. He rapidly set out to improve sales, establishing publications for NCR salesmen and customers. One of the first was called <I>The Hustler</I>. This is the November, 1893, issue of the title (volume 9, #84). The cover shows Bedouin coffee sellers at the Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held in Chicago that year. In the center of the image is a large brass NCR cash register. The issue also includes two pages answering shop keepers objections to cash registers; a two-page listing of NCR cash register purchasers in October, 1893; an advertisement for NCR products on the back page; and an endorsement from world’s fair organizers reporting that the 650 cash registers in use at the fair were performing well.
label: Description
content: The paper was received with an NCR credit register (1987.0751.01), a hinged parallel rule (1987.0751.02), and business cards for two NCR sales representatives (1987.0751.04). The credit register was made twenty years after the publication of this issue of <I>The Hustler</I>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
label: owner, prior
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland Heights
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0751.03
label: accession number
content: 1987.0751
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0751.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.5 cm x 33.5 cm; 10 7/16 in x 13 3/16 in