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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Cash Registers

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
Topic
Bookkeeping
Cash registers
Provenance
Cash Registers is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.
Creator
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Cash Registers
Summary
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Cash Registers forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Extent
0.49 Boxes (consisting of 1 box, 1 oversize folder, 1 map case folder, plus digital images of some collection material. )
Date
circa 1850-1954
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Cash
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Business ephemera
Ephemera
Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement
Materials are organized alphabetically by name of company.
Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Genre/Form
Business ephemera
Ephemera
Scope and Contents
This material consists primarily of printed advertisements, scattered correspondence on letterhead stationery, catalogues, annual reports, handbills, booklets, bulletins, order forms, price lists, postcards and lithographs from manufacturers and dealers of cash registers . There is quite a bit of material from the National Cash Register Company. Some of the companies sold correct posture chairs and accounting machine desks for use with cash registers and similar machinery. The cash register is advertised as a cure-all to hand posted accounting systems eliminating duplication of work, errors in mental computations and illegible records. The companies also tended to sell a variety of other office and business machinery including check writing and signing machines, analysis machines, comptometers, bookkeeping machines, adder machines, cash drawers, posting machines, bank-bookkeeping machines and postage meter machines. A few companies issued publications for all concerned in the cash register industry . Adder Machine Company produced bulletins titled "The Wales Way" which was named after their Wales machinery. The National Cash Register Company distributed a number of publications including "The National Cash Register", a journal which showed illustrations of company operations, employees and some usual features which included a kindergarten run by the company. "The Businessmen's N. C. R." assisted retail storekeepers make more money, create good window displays, increase profits and recognize the value of modern methods and machinery. "The N C R Weekly" was published for employees as well as customers, cash register manufacturers and the general public. All of these publications heavily advertise the company's products. The National Cash Register Company also published a book on principle nations of the world and their coinage. The bulk of the material is late nineteenth and early twentieth century. There is one folder of general images and one folder of miscellaneous items.
Restrictions
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Materials in the Archives Center
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. Series 1: Business Ephemera Series 2: Other Collection Divisions Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1562721029329-1562721029331-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85c0934c7-6c6b-40e7-81d3-7328e23b4f5d

In the Collection

  • Companies

  • National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

  • Brandt Cashier Company, Chicago, Illinois

  • Pottin Register Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Adder Machine Company, Wilkes, Barre, Pennsylvania

  • Casey, John, Jersey City, New Jersey

  • Greene Register Company, Chicago, Illinois

  • Ohmer Fare Register Co., Dayton, Ohio

  • Cash Registers

  • General Images and Miscellaneous Material

  • Miller, C.B., Ithaca, New York

  • Miscellaneous

  • Meaker manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois

  • Hallwood Cash Register Company, Columbus, Ohio

  • Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • St. Louis Cash Register Company, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Cash Registers

  • Tucker, W.H. and company, Indianapolis, Indiana

  • McCaskey Register Company, Alliance, Ohio

  • Miles Alarm Till Manufacturing Co., Providence, Rhode Island

  • General Images

  • Dayton Autographic Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio
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