Artifact Details

Title

IBM Tabulating and Card Reader/Punch Machines

Catalog Number

102645818

Type

Still Image

Description

B/W, Perspective view of an IBM Tabulating and Card Reader/Punch Machines. Office environment with flat floor, roll up shades on windows (rear and right background). Three women facing front, at tabulating equipment at right. Man at desk with paperwork at center foreground. Woman at small desk, flipping through cards on a box. Two men in background, one at a card sorter at left and one at a smaller piece of hidden equipment at center. Storage cabinets at back wall. Verso: "# 183 Office Scene, 1940" in black ink, upper left edge. [10/03/2005 JJL]

Identifying Numbers

Other number # 183

Dimensions

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