Dehomag 11 punch card
Archival History
The tabulator was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden. The punch card was found inside the tabulator by museum staff.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden
Scope and Content
Torn punch card of 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
In three pieces.
Corporate Bodies
- Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Subjects
- Calculators.
- Germany--Census--History--20th century.
- Population research--Germany--History--20th century.
- Tabulating machines--Germany--Lichterfelde (Berlin)
- Punched card systems.
- Census--Data processing--Germany--20th century.
- Germany--Statistical services--History--20th century.
Genre
- Object
- Tools and Equipment