Object Details
- IBM
- Description
- These paper twenty-four column punch cards are divided into fields used in the U.S. Census. Each card is marked: IBM190916. The fields match those used in the 1900 U.S. Census of Population. However, IBM did not exist as a company at that time.
- The fields are
- :• Race
- • Gender
- • Age
- • Marriage status
- • Number of pregnancies
- • Number of living children
- • Native or foreign born
- • Birthplace
- o Top code: states for natives
- o Bottom code: countries for foreign born
- • Father’s birthplace
- • Mother’s birthplace
- • Years in the US
- • Citizenship status
- • Occupation
- • Months unemployed
- • Years in school and literacy levels
- • English speaking
- References:
- Truesdell, Leon E. The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census, 1890-1940: With Outlines of Actual Tabulation Programs. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1965.
- Leon E. Truesdall, The Development of Punch Card Tabulation in the Bureau of the Census 1890-1949, Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1965, p. 131.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Transfer from Bureau of the Census
- 1900-style
- ID Number
- 1988.3098.03
- catalog number
- 1988.3098.03
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3098
- Object Name
- punch cards, group of
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17 cm x 8.2 cm; 6 11/16 in x 3 7/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Punch Cards
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1848450
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-8425-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
