NOLAPunchCards1938
New Orleans, 1938. New Orleans Hydrographic Office. "WPA white collar workers making punch cards of the hydrographic chart for use eventually in revising pilot charts. A good operator can turn out 1,500 punch cards daily, as compared with some 300 if computed by hand. Both methods are used on the New Orleans project. Interior." The keypunch machines are the IBM Type 016 Electric Duplicating Key Punch introduced in 1929.
- Date
- 1938-07-28
- Photographer / author
- Uncredited WPA photographer
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 600 × 458 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).
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