National Cash Register, Model 1544-(4D-1)
date: label: date made
content: 1937
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: This machine has four wooden drawers arranged in a single column in a wooden case. The register, in a brown metal case, sits atop the drawers. It has four columns of digit keys (red for dollars, black for cents, with a red five-cent key). Right of these is a column with keys marked A, B, D, E. Right of these is a lever now broken, a motor bar, and a section for the paper tape. The indicators are above the keys. The machine is electric. It has serial number 3672484 and model number 1544-(4D-1).
label: Description
content: The machine was used at the Lansburgh Department Store in downtown Washington, D.C. When City Stores Company purchased Lansburgh, they gave the machine to the Smithsonian.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of City Stores Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.334907
label: maker number
content: 3672484
label: accession number
content: 314157
label: catalog number
content: 334907
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 74 cm x 39.5 cm x 42 cm; 29 1/8 in x 15 9/16 in x 16 17/32 in