Early Census Machines
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Description: Card Punching (1940)
A Census Bureau employee demonstrates the use of a “pantograph” card punch used in earlier censuses. An operator using a pantograph translated handwritten information on the census schedule to holes on a punch card using a “card puncher.” The punch cards were then sorted and tabulated.
Photo Credit: U.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office (PIO)
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Description: Hand punch machine used in 1940
Year: 1940
Photo Credit: U.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office (PIO)
Free to use in news media and public information products.
