UNIVAC Punch Cards for the AFL-CIO
Object Details
- Description
- Punched cards were used not only in government, business, and universities, but by labor unions. These ninety-column paper punch cards are pink, green and white, and white with a green stripe. The first pink card is marked: FIELD ENGINEERING SERVICE REPORT. The green and white cards are marked: CUSTOMER ENGINEERING SERVICE REPORT. The white card with one green stripe is marked: AFL-CIO PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS, indicating the user. The last pink card is marked: UNIVAC P-11782
- The cards were received in a Remington Rand interpreter with catalog number 336300 (305981.03).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
- ca 1955
- ID Number
- MA.305981.09
- accession number
- 305981
- catalog number
- 305981.09
- Object Name
- Punch Cards, Group Of
- Group of UNIVAC Punch Cards
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .6 cm x 19 cm x 8.3 cm; 1/4 in x 7 15/32 in x 3 9/32 in
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Computers & Business Machines
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_694234
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-37ee-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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