Victor Model 511S Adding Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: Victor Adding Machine Company
notes: label: Description
content: This full-keyboard printing manual adding machine has a steel frame painted black, with the portion under the keyboard green. There are eight columns of color-coded black and white number keys. To the left are the error (e.g., clearance) and repeat keys. To the right are the subtotal, total, subtraction, and non-add keys. The operating crank is on the right side.
label: Description
content: Eight number dials at the front of the machine show the total. The printing mechanism is behind the keyboard, with a two-colored ribbon. A 14 cm. (5-1/2”) fixed carriage carries a 6 cm. (2-1/4”) wide paper tape. The serial number, which is on the bottom of the machine, is 262051. The gray plastic cover is torn in one corner.
label: Description
content: According to the donor, this adding machine was used by her mother, Bessie Weintraub Goldstein (1911-1987), in connection with her bookkeeping work for the Gamma Drug Company in Bronxville, New York. This store was owned and operated from 1939 to 1971 by the donor’s father, Isidor Goldstein, a pharmacist. Bessie Goldstein worked in the store by day as saleswoman, clerk, and soda jerk, and in the evenings did the books at home in Mount Vernon, New York, at the kitchen table. The adding machine was purchased at an unknown date (probably after 1950). Previously, Mrs. Goldstein did the calculations without the aid of a machine.
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content: References:
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content: Office Machine Research, <I>American Office Machine Research Service</I>, vol. 3, February, 1940, p. 3.21.
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content: <I>NOMDA’s Blue Book: Approximate January 1st Ages Adding Machines and Calculator Retail Prices</I>, November, 1980, p. 57.
label: Description
content: Accession File.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Adding Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sheila Salo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0744.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0744.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0744
label: maker number
content: 262051
objectType: label: Object Name
content: adding machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
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content: steel (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 30.5 cm x 47 cm; 9 7/16 in x 12 in x 18 1/2 in