B/W, Perspective view of an IBM Punch Card Office. Computer room environment with patterned floor, hanging lamp lighting. Rows of IBM card handling machines along with eleven men (in suits) and one woman among the equipment. Storage units at the back center. Framed windows and doors. Two pictures of T.J. Watson Sr. on center back wall. "1-6" in black ink written in the bottom right edge, white, margin. Verso: "# 1317" in black pencil, sideways, left center edge. "1-6" in black pencil, right, center top edge. "IBM ARCHIVES" stamped in black ink, top, center edge. "Courtesy of IBM Archives" in black ballpoint on 3/4 x 1-1/2 inch, white label, top right edge. "Punchcard Office Grouping label" on turquoise, 3 x 3 inch Post-It note pasted to center. [10/03/2005 JJL]
Participants
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Identifying Numbers
Other number
# 1317
Other number
1-6
Dimensions
8 x 10 in.
Format
Photographic print
Category
Identification photograph; Publicity photograph
Subject
Computer industry--History; Computers--History; Electronic data processing--History
