Artifact Details

Title

IBM Tabulating and Card Reader/Punch Machines (1957)

Catalog Number

102645461

Type

Still Image

Description

B/W, Perspective view of an IBM Tabulating and Card Reader/Punch Machines. Computer room environment with hardwood floor, recessed lighting and corrugated ceiling. Rows of IBM card handling machines along with storage units at the back and left side walls. Line of tables from center foreground to the right background. "1957 : TAB DEPT PARTS DIVISION REYNOLDS METALS COMPANY LOUISVILLE KY" in blue ink written in the bottom edge, white, margin. Verso: "P4045" in light black pencil, sideways, left top edge. [9/26/2005 JJL]

Identifying Numbers

Other number P4045

Dimensions

8 1/8 x 10 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Identification photograph; Publicity photograph

Subject

Computer industry--History; Computers--History; Electronic data processing--History

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015