Artifact Details

Title

IBM Type 11 Electric Card Punching Machine, (1923)

Catalog Number

102645453

Type

Still Image

Description

B/W, Perspective view of IBM Type 011 Electric Card Punching Machine. Woman in dress is seated with a sheet of paper in one hand and the other hand on the keys of the machine. She is facing the machine at the center foreground. Office environment with many machines and many other women working at similar machines. One man watching all the women at the left background. Clock on wall at left and window with drapes and light flooding in. Storage units along back wall. Verso: "# P4021" in black pencil, upside down at top right edge. "163" stamped inn black at the upper right edge. "135" stamped in black at center. White label slightly above center, at about a 20 degree angle. On the label: "VIDEO TRANSFER INC> video & audio duplication punching cards. "IBM for accounting systems - 1920's phone 617-247-0100 fax 617 247-1365". "Type 11 Key Punch IBM 163" in black ink on yellow label (1" x 1-1/2"), sideways at upper left. Another yellow label (3/4" x 1-1/2"), sideways just below previous yellow label: "Courtesy of IBM Archives". [9/26/2005 JJL]

Publisher

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

Identifying Numbers

Other number 135
Other number 163
Other number P4021

Dimensions

10 x 7 5/8 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