National Cash Register, Eight-Drawer
date: label: date made
content: 1939
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: This machine has eight cash drawers, arranged in two columns of four drawers each. The register, with its brown metal case, sits atop these. It has four columns of digit keys (red for dollars, white for cents, and a red 5-cent key). Right of these are eight letter keys (A, B, D, E, H, K, L, and M) and a total key. Right of these is a lever which can be set at the desired operation, and a motor bar. The machine also has an operating handle. The paper tape is on the left and the glass-covered indicators are at the top.
label: Description
content: The machine has serial number 390234. It also is marked: X 094(4) RS-8C.
label: Description
content: This cash register 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.334909
label: maker number
content: 3848004
label: accession number
content: 314157
label: catalog number
content: 334909
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cash register
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 86 cm x 49.5 cm x 73 cm; 33 27/32 in x 19 1/2 in x 28 3/4 in