World's First Cash Register
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1959
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 52, Folder 22
Sheila Hershey rings up a "sale" on world's first cash register, which was placed in the Smithsonian Institution on July 1, 1959. Looking on is Stanley C. Allyn, Board Chairman of the National Cash Register Co., who presented the machine to Dr. Leonard Carmichael, Secretary of the Institution. The device was invented in 1879 by James Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, cafe owner, who sold the rights to the machine for $1,000.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 52, Folder 22
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1959
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2003-19541
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: person, candid; object; Medium: Photographic print