Advertisement, Comptometer Adding-Calculating Machines
Permanent ID:
9258Date:
April 1940Image Description:
Advertisement for Comptometer Adding-Calculating Machines featuring an illustration of an elderly Chinese man squatting down in a street to use an abacus. He is smoking a long pipe. He sits next to a young Chinese boy who is similarly squatting behind a barrel. The tagline reads "It suits him." The copy indicates that the "Oriental business man" uses "the abacus, crude as it is" because it meets his needs. The Comptometer is heralded as important in "the theater of American enterprise."