Graduate Record Examination Punch Cards
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: The Carnegie Foundation, and later the Educational Testing Service, used several forms of punched card in compiling and reporting information on the tests it administered. Three types are included here. All relate to Graduate Record Examination Individual Report Cards. One has the number IBM 138707 (four examples), one IBM 140086 (eleven examples), and another IBM 140088 (three examples). One card is punched.
label: Description
content: The cards were produced under U.S. Patent 1,772.492, taken out by Clair D. Lake in 1930 and assigned to IBM. The Graduate Record Examination was first administered in 1937 and kept the New York City address shown on the cards through at least 1951.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Milton Schwartzbart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.3080.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1995.3080
label: catalog number
content: 1995.3080.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch cards, group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .5 cm x 19 cm x 8.2 cm; 3/16 in x 7 15/32 in x 3 7/32 in