Oversize facsimile of a Dehomag D11 census punch card
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The punch card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.
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Oversize facsimile of a Dehomag D11 census punch card
overall: Height: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
Oversize facsimile of punch card 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.
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Oversize black and white photo reproduction of an unused, rectangular, stiff, white paper punch card 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.