National Class 32 Bookkeeping Machine on Stand
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: maker
content: National Cash Register Company
notes: label: Description
content: During the years immediately following World War II, demand for National Cash Register products boomed. In late 1949, the company introduced a new line of accounting machines, successors to the class 2000 and class 3000. It included the Class 31 and Class 32. This is an NCR Class 32 machine from 1959.
label: Description
content: The machine combines an electric typewriter at the front with an adding machine in the center. The adding machine has eleven columns of digit keys and three columns of keys for indicating dates to the left of these. It has a variety of function keys and bars. A mark above the typewriter keyboard reads: National. A metal label reads:
label: Description
content: 6073226 (/) SP-WD-26 (/) 32-W-10-11 (/) 38X - DP. The first number of this mark is the serial number. Other portions of this mark refer to features of the machine — a split paten, a wheel dater, and a protective dollar printing feature.
label: Description
content: Behind the adding machine is a wide carriage that would accommodate one or more forms.
label: Description
content: The machine is on a metal stand with rubber feet.
label: Description
content: Accounting machines were used to prepare monthly statements, type checks, record payroll and do general ledger work. This example was used at the Lansburgh department store in downtown Washington, D.C.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: NCR, <I>Reference Manual Class 31A Class 32A</I>, August, 1965, Montgomery County Historical Society, Dayton, Ohio.
label: Description
content: Accession File.
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: Bookkeeping Machines
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content: Science & Mathematics
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.334904
label: catalog number
content: 334904
label: maker number
content: 6073226
label: accession number
content: 314157
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bookkeeping machine with stand
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 87 cm x 102 cm x 87 cm; 34 1/4 in x 40 5/32 in x 34 1/4 in