Punch Card Like Those Used in the 1890 U.S. Census of Population (Replica)
date: label: date made
content: 1967 received
name: label: maker
content: IBM
notes: label: Description
content: This is a replica of the punch cards used in the 1890 U.S. Census of population. Like them it is blank with the bottom left corner cut off. Those punching the cards used a pantograph punch which had room for twelve rows of twenty columns of holes. The significance of these holes is indicated on a flat sheet attached at the front of the card punch (see MA.312896). This is one of a batch of cards furnished by IBM.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: Leon E. Truesdall, <I>The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890-1949</I>, Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1965, pp. 43-47.
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: Science & Mathematics
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content: Punch Cards
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of International Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3099.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3099
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3099.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: punch card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 16.1 cm x 8.1 cm; 1/32 in x 6 11/32 in x 3 3/16 in