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- Remington Rand Bookkeeping Machine and Stand, Model 685, 1945-1955 - Bookkeeping machines were the precursors to the computer -- they processed and moved complex numeric and alphabetic data. Combining elements of typewriters, adding machines, and calculators, bookkeeping machines processed payroll, taxes, and recorded payments and billing. Efficient and reliable, these devices eased the workload of office workers. They were also used as vote tabulators and for complex calculation of scientific data.
- 1945-1955
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Remington Rand Bookkeeping Machine and Stand, Model 685, 1945-1955
Bookkeeping machines were the precursors to the computer -- they processed and moved complex numeric and alphabetic data. Combining elements of typewriters, adding machines, and calculators, bookkeeping machines processed payroll, taxes, and recorded payments and billing. Efficient and reliable, these devices eased the workload of office workers. They were also used as vote tabulators and for complex calculation of scientific data.
- Comic Valentine, "Book-Keeper," circa 1855 - From the 1840s into the early 1900s, some people sent inexpensive Valentine's Day greetings that chided, warned, or insulted the recipient. An exaggerated, often garish cartoon and short verse described and dismissed someone's looks, intelligence, personality, or behavior. Within the atmosphere of a festive holiday, under the cover of humor, these "vinegar valentines" were acceptable critiques of behaviors that deviated from social norms.
- circa 1855
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Comic Valentine, "Book-Keeper," circa 1855
From the 1840s into the early 1900s, some people sent inexpensive Valentine's Day greetings that chided, warned, or insulted the recipient. An exaggerated, often garish cartoon and short verse described and dismissed someone's looks, intelligence, personality, or behavior. Within the atmosphere of a festive holiday, under the cover of humor, these "vinegar valentines" were acceptable critiques of behaviors that deviated from social norms.
- Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine, circa 1928 - Bookkeeping machines were the precursors to the computer -- they processed and moved complex numeric and alphabetic data. Combining elements of typewriters, adding machines, and calculators, bookkeeping machines processed payroll, taxes, and recorded payments and billing. Efficient and reliable, these devices eased the workload of office workers. They were also used as vote tabulators and for complex calculation of scientific data.
- circa 1928
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Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine, circa 1928
Bookkeeping machines were the precursors to the computer -- they processed and moved complex numeric and alphabetic data. Combining elements of typewriters, adding machines, and calculators, bookkeeping machines processed payroll, taxes, and recorded payments and billing. Efficient and reliable, these devices eased the workload of office workers. They were also used as vote tabulators and for complex calculation of scientific data.
- Underwood Sundstrand Adding Machine, circa 1946 - Mechanical adding machines were indispensable office equipment used before the computer era. These devices were perfected by the American Arithmometer Company in 1886, spurred on by William Seward Burrough's desire to reduce drudgery in clerical arithmetic work. Transistors and electronic desktop calculators displaced adding machines in the 1950s; by the 1970s, microchips reduced calculators to the size of a shirt pocket.
- circa 1946
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Underwood Sundstrand Adding Machine, circa 1946
Mechanical adding machines were indispensable office equipment used before the computer era. These devices were perfected by the American Arithmometer Company in 1886, spurred on by William Seward Burrough's desire to reduce drudgery in clerical arithmetic work. Transistors and electronic desktop calculators displaced adding machines in the 1950s; by the 1970s, microchips reduced calculators to the size of a shirt pocket.
- Handwritten Expense Accounts of Charles P. Gemme, Vice President, Superintendant, and Chief Designer of Worcester Lunch Car Company, 1958-1960 -
- 1958-1960
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Handwritten Expense Accounts of Charles P. Gemme, Vice President, Superintendant, and Chief Designer of Worcester Lunch Car Company, 1958-1960
- Balance Sheet for the Account of R. J. Arnold's Heirs, 1880 -
- 1877-1880
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Balance Sheet for the Account of R. J. Arnold's Heirs, 1880
- Pay to Order Request from William E. Arnold to George Appleton, February 19, 1877 -
- February 19, 1877
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Pay to Order Request from William E. Arnold to George Appleton, February 19, 1877
- Champion Complete Accountant, 1914 - Bookkeeping machines were the precursors to the computer -- they processed and moved complex numeric and alphabetic data. Combining elements of typewriters, adding machines, and calculators, bookkeeping machines processed payroll, taxes, and recorded payments and billing. Efficient and reliable, these devices eased the workload of office workers. They were also used as vote tabulators and for complex calculation of scientific data.
- 1914
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Champion Complete Accountant, 1914
Bookkeeping machines were the precursors to the computer -- they processed and moved complex numeric and alphabetic data. Combining elements of typewriters, adding machines, and calculators, bookkeeping machines processed payroll, taxes, and recorded payments and billing. Efficient and reliable, these devices eased the workload of office workers. They were also used as vote tabulators and for complex calculation of scientific data.
- Letter and R. J. Arnold Estate Records from William Talbot to George Appleton, March 29, 1877 -
- March 29, 1877
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Letter and R. J. Arnold Estate Records from William Talbot to George Appleton, March 29, 1877
- Portrait of Ernest J. Berggren, circa 1885 -
- circa 1885
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Portrait of Ernest J. Berggren, circa 1885