Card sorter for tabulating machine
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1940
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 10,089 × 8,121 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: Harris & Ewing collection, given to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions.
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Credit line
"Card sorter for tabulating machine" (1940). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Card_sorter_for_tabulating_machine_LCCN2016877177.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 274539.
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