Framed Photograph of a Hollerith Tabulating System
Object Details
- date made
- ca 1900
- Description
- This framed photograph of a Hollerith tabulating system shows a tabulating machine, card punch with cards, and sorter, all distributed by the Tabulating Machine Company of New York.
- The tabulating machine has a metal base and four rows of counters, with ten counters in each row. Right of it a card punch and a pile of punch cards are on a separated metal table. A sticker above these reads: Tabulating Machine Company. Next to these is the sorter, which appears to have two rows of vertical compartments, with 13 compartments in each row. The photograph is matted and has a glass cover and wooden frame.
- A sheet that once covered the back of the frame reads: WOOD & FORSYTH’S (/) ART STORE (/) Frames Made to Order (/) 1200 S Street. (/) WASHINGTON, D.C.
- Electrical circuitry on the stand holding the card punch resembles MA.335637.
- The Tabulating Machine Company was in business from 1896 to 1911, hence the rough date of 1900 assigned to the object.
- Compare objects MA.312895, MA.312896 and MA.312897.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- web subject
- Mathematics
- Census, US
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Tabulating Equipment
- Science & Mathematics
- Credit Line
- Gift of Virginia Hollerith and Lucia Hollerith
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- MA.317982.05
- accession number
- 317982
- catalog number
- 317982.05
- Object Name
- photograph
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.1 cm x 27.3 cm x 22.5 cm; 7/16 in x 10 3/4 in x 8 27/32 in
- Record ID
- nmah_1214682