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Title
Canal
Collector's
Office
Subject
Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)
National Cash Register Company
Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1922
Canals--Ohio--History
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Dayton (Ohio)
Montgomery County (Ohio)
Description
Building
in
photograph
is
signed
as "
Canal
Collector's
Office
.
Coal
and
Coke
".
Caption
reads
"
Where
Mr
.
Patterson
started
in
business
as a
canal
collector
" with a
typewritten
addition
as
follows
: "
Old
Canal
Days
.
Montgomery
County
.
May
4
,
1938
.
Third
and
Kenton
Streets
,
Dayton
,
Ohio
,
where
John
J
.
Patterson
,
founder
of the
National
Cash
Register
Company
,
started
his
career
as a
canal
tolls
collector
in
1868
, and
opened
a
coal
and
wood
business
as a
sideline
.
Photo
copied
by
Federal
Writers
'
Project
,
Dayton
,
Ohio
".
Reverse
reads
"
Ident
.
-
32
.
State
Picture
Book
.
Dummy
page
26
-
lower
.
Location
-
Dayton
,
Ohio
.
Credit
-
Ohio
Writers
'
Project
.
Caption
-
Miami
and
Erie
Canal
. This
photo
must
be
returned
to
Ohio
Writers
'
Project
.
8
East
Chestnut
Street
,
Columbus
,
Ohio
". In
1884
,
John
Henry
Patterson
bought
out
his
fellow
investors
in the
National
Manufacturing
Company
and
formed
the
National
Cash
Register
Company
, the
predecessor
of
NCR
Corporation
,
which
became
the
word’s
leading
manufacturer
of
cash
registers
.
Patterson
,
hoping
the
machines
could
save
him
money
by
reducing
accounting
errors
in his
supply
business
,
purchased
the
patent
rights
to the
cash
register
from
James
Ritty
in
1884
.
Within
six
months
, he
reduced
his
debt
and
showed
a
profit.In
1888
,
Patterson
built
the
first
National
Cash
Register
factory
on his
family's
farm
in
Dayton
,
Ohio
. By the
turn
of the
century
, the
company
had
become
one
of the
largest
employers
in
Dayton
. In
1906
, the
company
manufactured
the
first
electric
cash
register
. The
Miami
and
Erie
Canal
connected
the
Ohio
River
in
Cincinnati
and
Lake
Erie
in
Toledo
and was
completed
in
1845
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
SA1039AV_B02F07_010_1.tif
Image Height
4935
Image Width
5908
File Size
87493472 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
picture
Date created
2009-08-10
Date modified
2011-06-15
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