National Cash Register, Model 1544 (4D-1)
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Object Details
- National Cash Register Company
- Description
- This NCR cash register has four drawers in two columns. It has four columns of plastic digit keys, white for dollars, tens of dollars, and 5 cents, and black for cents. A column of four keys right of the number keys has keys labeled A1, 6, B2 and B2. Right of these is a lever, which can be set on the operation desired, and a motor bar. The paper tape holder is on the right side, the indicators are above the keyboard, and the electric cord is at the back. The serial number is 4931871, the model number 1544 (4D-1).
- The machine was used at Lansburgh department store in downtown Washington, D.C. When City Stores Company purchased Lansburgh, they gave the machine to the Smithsonian.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of City Stores Company
- 1952
- ID Number
- MA.334906
- maker number
- 4931871
- accession number
- 314157
- catalog number
- 334906
- Object Name
- cash register
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 58.7 cm x 69.5 cm x 40 cm; 23 1/8 in x 27 3/8 in x 15 3/4 in
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Dayton
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Cash and Credit Registers
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Business
- Record ID
- nmah_694242
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3df4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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