The Comptometer room at the Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' comptometers, manual calculating machines

Date:
1 Jul 1914
Location:
Stratford Co-Operative Society, Maryland Street, Newham, Greater London Authority
Reference:
BL22762
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. The children in the photograph could be employed in work, with the school leaving age only being raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Cooperative Store, Office, Trade And Commerce