1899 · Keyboard Change Dispenser · Werk 727 von 1.871

A change-making machine on the paying table in the wage office of a railway workshop in the American Midwest in 1925, a desk machine twenty-eight centimetres high, twenty-four wide, of silver-grey cast metal with scrolling relief ornament on the sides, across the front eight open slanting coin channels with brass-coloured dividers, each holding a column of plain coins seen edge-on, behind them a rising field of small round key tops seen at a slant as dark and pale dots, one hand in a black sleeve protector on the keys, beside it a wooden box of brown pay envelopes on edge, plain backs to the lens, window light from the left.