Swann Galleries - The Vernacular Eye - Sale 2345 - April 17, 2014 - page 95

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(JAPAN—NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY)
Post-WorldWar II album with 95 photographs depicting activities relating to the American company
National Cash Register, in Tokyo, Ohito, Keijo, Osaka and Niigata, Japan.With scenes of beautiful
department store displays and showrooms, workers in white shirts and overalls (working clothes
provided by the company) assembling machines in manufacturing plants, demonstrating rooms, sales
offices, immaculate shipping facilities, corporate suites and more; with a 2-part panorama of the
NCR factory in Ohito. Silver prints, 5
1
/
2
x7
3
/
4
inches (14.6x19.7 cm.), and smaller, with typewritten
captions, in English, on mounts recto, and a typewritten sheet entitled “Brief Explanation of the
Ohito Factory” laid in. Folio, cloth; contents crisp and clean. Late 1940s
[1,000/1,500]
WITH
Pre-WorldWar II album containing 32 photographs about the National Cash Register Co. in
Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kobe, and Osaka, Japan.With scenes depicting industrious workers, charts with sales
projections, store façades, advertising displays in department stores and young women dressed in kimonos
who are studying at Cashier’s School; with a couple of prints that relate to the death of the Emperor.
Silver prints, 4
1
/
4
x6 inches (11.4x15.2 cm.), with captions, in English and in white ink, beneath the
photographs. Small 4to, decorative cloth; ties. 1928.
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