Object Details
maker
IBM
Description
These paper twenty-four column punch cards are divided into fields used in the U.S. Census. Each card is marked: IBM190916. The fields match those used in the 1900 U.S. Census of Population. However, IBM did not exist as a company at that time.
The fields are
:• Race
• Gender
• Age
• Marriage status
• Number of pregnancies
• Number of living children
• Native or foreign born
• Birthplace
o Top code: states for natives
o Bottom code: countries for foreign born
• Father’s birthplace
• Mother’s birthplace
• Years in the US
• Citizenship status
• Occupation
• Months unemployed
• Years in school and literacy levels
• English speaking
References:
Truesdell, Leon E. The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census, 1890-1940: With Outlines of Actual Tabulation Programs. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1965.
Leon E. Truesdall, The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890-1949, Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1965, p. 131.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Transfer from Bureau of the Census
date made
1900-style
ID Number
1988.3098.03
catalog number
1988.3098.03
nonaccession number
1988.3098
Object Name
punch cards, group of
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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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1848450