National Cash Register, Size 45
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: The National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio, expanded rapidly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It soon offered not only registers that kept digital records of transactions, but so-called autographic registers that simply allowed one to maintain written records of sales. This example consists of an oak box with a hinged lid, an opening in the lid that reveals a paper tape on which sales may be recorded, and a cash drawer. The decoration at the back of the register, the frame around the paper tape, and the handle on the door are of brass.
label: Description
content: The National Size 45 autographic register sold in 1908 for $20.00. For related documentation see 1987.0751.03 and 1987.0751.04.
label: Description
content: Reference: Richard R. Crandall and Sam Robins, <I>The Incorruptible Cashier</I>, vol. 2, Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1990, pp. 304–315, esp. 312.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
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: 1987.0751.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0751
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0751.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: credit register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oak (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31.8 cm x 45 cm x 54 cm; 12 17/32 in x 17 23/32 in x 21 1/4 in