Framed Photograph of a Hollerith Tabulating System
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: This framed photograph of a Hollerith tabulating system shows a tabulating machine, card punch with cards, and sorter, all distributed by the Tabulating Machine Company of New York.
label: Description
content: The tabulating machine has a metal base and four rows of counters, with ten counters in each row. Right of it a card punch and a pile of punch cards are on a separated metal table. A sticker above these reads: Tabulating Machine Company. Next to these is the sorter, which appears to have two rows of vertical compartments, with 13 compartments in each row. The photograph is matted and has a glass cover and wooden frame.
label: Description
content: A sheet that once covered the back of the frame reads: WOOD & FORSYTH’S (/) ART STORE (/) Frames Made to Order (/) 1200 S Street. (/) WASHINGTON, D.C.
label: Description
content: Electrical circuitry on the stand holding the card punch resembles MA.335637.
label: Description
content: The Tabulating Machine Company was in business from 1896 to 1911, hence the rough date of 1900 assigned to the object.
label: Description
content: Compare objects MA.312895, MA.312896 and MA.312897.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
label: web subject
content: Census
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Tabulating Equipment
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Virginia Hollerith and Lucia Hollerith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.317982.05
label: accession number
content: 317982
label: catalog number
content: 317982.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.1 cm x 27.3 cm x 22.5 cm; 7/16 in x 10 3/4 in x 8 27/32 in