Punch Card, Preliminary Card Unemployment 1930

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Object Details

maker

IBM

Description

This brown paper twenty-four column card is divided into seventeen fields for such categories as city, schedule, line, reason, sex, age, and occupation. It is a preliminary version of a punch card developed by the Bureau of the Census for a 1930 Census of Unemployment.

Reference:

Leon E. Truesdall, The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890-1949, Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1965, pp. 180-186.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Transfer from Bureau of the Census

date made

1930

ID Number

1988.3098.02

catalog number

1988.3098.02

nonaccession number

1988.3098

Object Name

punch card

Physical Description

paper (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 17 cm x 8.2 cm; 6 11/16 in x 3 7/32 in

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Medicine and Science: Mathematics

Science & Mathematics

Punch Cards

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Mathematics

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-8424-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1848444