Punch Card, Preliminary Card Unemployment 1930

National Museum of American History

Object Details

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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
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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Subject
Mathematics
Record ID
nmah_1848444
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-8424-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
Punch Card, Preliminary Card Unemployment 1930
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