Photocopy sheet with a facsimile of a Dehomag D11 census punch card
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
Archival History
The punch card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Photocopy of a punch card facsimile used in the 1933 German census. This punch card was used with a Dehomag 11 tabulating system. which was the type used for processing results of the 1933 and 1939 German census during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] was a German based subsidiary of the US company, IBM. The Hollerith machine was a punch-card system consisting of three components, a punching machine [1990.48.3] that transmitted information onto punch cards, a sorting machine [1990.48.2] that arranged the punch cards by categories, and the tabulating machine [1990.48.1] that computed the results.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular sheet with a black and white photo reproduction of an unused, rectangular, stiff, white paper punch card size image with 1 angled corner and printed data. There is German text along the edges and repeated columns of numbers, 0-9, across the middle. Each column is identified by a number, 1-60, at the top and bottom. There are 28 categories of personal identification information along one long edge; such as residential district, age, religion, occupation, and number of children.
Corporate Bodies
- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Subjects
- Population research--Germany--History--20th century.
- Punched card systems.
- Tabulating machines--Germany--Lichterfelde (Berlin)
- Germany--Census--History--20th century.
- Census--Data processing--Germany--20th century.
- Germany--Statistical services--History--20th century.
- Calculators.
Genre
- Object
- Tools and Equipment