Artifact Details

Title

George Fairchild, Thomas Watson Sr., and Samuel Hastings

Catalog Number

102649676

Type

Still Image

Description

This is a black and white image of George Fairchild, Thomas Watson Sr., and Samuel Hastings standing on board a ship. The George Fairchild is on the left and is wearing a suit, tie, and bowler type hat and wearing glasses. In the center is Thomas Watson Sr. wearing a bowler type hat and suit and tie. Samuel Hastings is on the right wearing a fedora type hat and suit and tie. Light is coming from overhead and to the right side of the image. The bottom left coner of the image has a label that reads "Underwood & Underwood, New York." Written on verso side of image in black ink is "NOS 94" and "Left to right - G.W. Fairchild, Chairman of the CTR T.J. Watson Sr., President S.M. Hastings, President - Computing Scale Co. 1919". Stamped on verso side is "IBM ARCHIVES 171 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, New York 10532"

Date

1919 ca.

Identifying Numbers

Other number NOS 94

Dimensions

8 x 10 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Identification photograph; Publicity photograph; Group portrait

Subject

International Business Machines Corporation--History; Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company; Fairchild, George W.; Hastings, Samuel M.; Watson, Thomas, Sr.; The Computing Scale Company

Lot Number

X3461.2006