File:NOLAPunchCards1938.jpg

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WPA women workers making punch cards, New Orleans, 1938
Description New Orleans, 1938. New Orleans Hydrographic Office. "WPA white collar workers making punch cards of the hydrographic chart for use eventually in revising pilot charts. A good operator can turn out 1,500 punch cards daily, as compared with some 300 if computed by hand. Both methods are used on the New Orleans project. Interior." The keypunch machines are the IBM Type 016 Electric Duplicating Key Punch introduced in 1929. [1]
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Source Works Progress Administration photo via [1] 23.01 #1
Author Uncredited WPA photographer
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This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).

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  1. ↑ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/016.html

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