McCaskey Credit Register
date: label: date made
content: ca 1913
name: label: maker
content: McCaskey Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: The McCaskey Credit Register Company of Alliance, Ohio, was in business from 1903 until its acquisition by the Victor Adding Machine Company in 1953. It manufactured a variety of devices to assist in accounting, including this one for keeping track of the accounts of customers.
label: Description
content: The instrument is made of ferrous metal, painted black. The outside frame holds eight panels or leaves that rest vertically but may be opened out horizontally. The back of the front leaf and the front of the second are divided to allow an alphabetic index of the later leaves, with small paper slips giving the names of customers and a number for each name. The back of the second leaf, the front and back of the third through seventh leaves, and the front of the eighth leaf are divided into compartments, each of which has a clamp to hold the sales slips in place. These compartments are numbered from 1 to 200. Patent dates listed on the front of the machine range from October 10, 1899, to February 4, 1913.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the machine reads: The McCASKEY (/) McCASKEY SYSTEMS (/) THE McCASKEY REGISTER CO. (/) ALLIANCE, OHIO. A mark on a metal tab on the borrom of the inside of the front reads: 110831. A mark on a small slip on the first panel reads: 68 - York Springs Fire Co. A mark on a small slip on the second panel reads: Huntington Township. York Springs is a town in Adams County (near Gettysburg), Pennsylvania. The town of Huntington is the county seat of Huntington County, Pennsylvania.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: <i>Rand-McNally Library Atlas</i>, 1912.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Alliance
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Cash and Credit Registers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0186.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0186
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0186.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: credit register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ferrous metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46.2 cm x 52.5 cm x 23.5 cm; 18 3/16 in x 20 21/32 in x 9 1/4 in