National Cash Register, Eight-Drawer
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Object Details
- National Cash Register Company
- Description
- This machine has a metal case painted brown, and sits on top of eight cash drawers arranged in two columns of four drawers. It has four columns of plastic keys for registering dollars and cents ($10 to $90, $1 to $9, 10 cents to 90 cents, and 1cent to 9 cents). A column right of the number keys keys lettered A, B, D, E, H, K, L and M. A keyhole is right of each of the lettered keys. Right of these is a lever for setting the operation to be carried out and the motor bar.
- Left of the keyboard are registers marked with the same letters as those in the column of lettered keys. Left of this is the space for the paper tape. The machine has serial number 390234. It also is marked: X 094(4) RS-8C.
- This particular cash register 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
- 1940
- ID Number
- MA.334908
- maker number
- 3905234
- accession number
- 314157
- catalog number
- 334908
- Object Name
- cash register
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 82 cm x 74 cm x 51 cm; 32 9/32 in x 29 1/8 in x 20 3/32 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_694244
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3eec-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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