cash register
date: label: date made
content: 1904
name: label: associated person
content: Burroughs, Nannie Helen
label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: This 1904 National Cash Register Company cash register has an ornate brass exterior with a marble plate above the cash drawer. In addition to the wooden cash drawer and pop-up indicators at the top, the machine had two rows of keys. Keys in the top row are marked NO (/) SALE, 50, 30, 20, and 10. Keys in the bottom row are labeled $1, 75, 40, 30, 25, and 15. Next to the lower row, slightly lower, is a key marked 5.
label: Description
content: Inside a locked compartment above the keys are adding wheels for all eleven of the keys. When this compartment is closed, one can read a total indicator labeled: Amount (/) Purchased. A sticker on the bottom of the cash drawer indicates that it has serial number 387543 and was sold by the Louisville, Kentucky office. A mark on the front of the case reads: N. H. (/) Burroughs. A mark on the cash drawer reads: National.
label: Description
content: Nannie Helen Burroughs, an African-American born in Virginia, attended high school in Washington, D.C. and then worked the National Baptist Convention. From 1909 until her death in 1961 she was the president of a business college for African-Americans in Washington. This cash register, marked with her name, was used teaching students at the school.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Crandall, Robert L. and Sam Robins. <I>The Incorruptible Cashier</I>, vol. II, Vestal, N.Y.: The Vestal Press, 1990. This includes a listing of the date of manufacture of NCR cash registers by serial number.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
label: associated place
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: general subject association
content: History, Women's, Equal Rights
label: general subject association
content: African American History
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content: Political History: Political History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Nannie Helen Burroughs School
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0342.009
label: accession number
content: 1978.0342
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0342.009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall, case, keystems, interior material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall, drawer material)
label: Physical Description
content: marble (overall, drawer top material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 in x 24 in x 17 in; 78.74 cm x 60.96 cm x 43.18 cm