Computers & Business Machines
Imagine the loss, 100 years from now, if museums hadn't begun preserving the artifacts of the computer age. The last few decades offer proof positive of why museums must collect continuously—to document technological and social transformations already underway.
The museum's collections contain mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers, and handheld devices. Computers range from the pioneering ENIAC to microcomputers like the Altair and the Apple I. A Cray2 supercomputer is part of the collections, along with one of the towers of IBM's Deep Blue, the computer that defeated reigning champion Garry Kasparov in a chess match in 1997. Computer components and peripherals, games, software, manuals, and other documents are part of the collections. Some of the instruments of business include adding machines, calculators, typewriters, dictating machines, fax machines, cash registers, and photocopiers
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food coupons
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1971
- maker
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.063
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.063
- serial number
- B04026588A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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High School Graduation Cap
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1979
- associated institution
- Walt Whitman High School
- maker
- Oak Hall
- Oak Hall
- ID Number
- 1979.0792.01
- accession number
- 1979.0792
- catalog number
- 1979.0792.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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President Ford
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1975
- depicted (sitter)
- Ford, Gerald R.
- maker
- Kennerly, David Hume
- ID Number
- 2003.0004.03
- accession number
- 2003.0004
- catalog number
- 2003.0004.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Scroll for High Altar Gates, National Cathedral
- Description
- Thin rectangular bar of iron forged into a tight spiral at one end. No marks.
- Maker is Keyser Brothers Iron Works, 4041 Ridge Ave. in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA, 1928-1971. Run by James Moore Bryant Keyser (1902-1977) and master blacksmith Howard Keyser III (1904-1980). Specialized in residential and ecclesiastical ornamental wrought ironwork, including the High Altar Gates in the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. The forge was housed in an 1850s stone industrial complex that was dismantled in 1971 (documented by HABS/HAER).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1928-1971
- ID Number
- DL.72.0019
- catalog number
- 72.0019
- accession number
- 299610
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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United States Park Police Badge
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1976
- ID Number
- 1982.0137.01
- accession number
- 1982.0137
- catalog number
- 1982.0137.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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food coupons
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1971
- maker
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.046
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.046
- serial number
- Q00105711A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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food coupons
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1971
- depicted (sitter)
- Lincoln, Abraham
- maker
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.060
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.060
- serial number
- K00000035A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Glass Christmas Ornament
- Description
- Molded glass holiday or Christmas ornament. Mirrored red ball, hand-decorated as a Santa Claus face: white and black paper eyes, silver ball for nose, with foam mustache and red paper mouth. Top of ball is covered in mica and black sand or glitter. Cap is opaque white plastic, and reads: “WEST GERMANY/ D.G.M.a”. Cap was definitely made in Germany, ornament possibly as well. One of three (see DL*298065.372 and DL*298065.374).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- after 1945
- ID Number
- DL.298065.0373
- catalog number
- 298065.0373
- accession number
- 298065
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Their Lives Are In Our Hands
- Description
- An anti-abortion poster.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1978
- ID Number
- ZZ.RSN82628Y08
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Ambition: America's Moral Strength
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1961
- associated dates
- 1961 01 01+ / 1961 01 01+, 1961 12 31- / 1961 12 31-
- associated date
- 1966 - 1973
- printer
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- ID Number
- 1979.0219.005
- catalog number
- 1979.0219.005
- accession number
- 1979.0219
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1970
- associated dates
- 1970 01 01+ / 1970 01 01+, 1970 12 31- / 1970 12 31-
- associated date
- 1966 - 1973
- printer
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- ID Number
- 1979.0219.025
- catalog number
- 1979.0219.025
- accession number
- 1979.0219
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Meet the Press
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- circa 1950
- date made
- circa 1960
- circa 1960 to 1978
- maker
- NBC News
- ID Number
- GA.24873.01
- accession number
- 1978.0100
- catalog number
- 24873.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Yes, It's a Tough Decision, and It Could Be Your Last.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1972
- associated dates
- 1972 01 01+ / 1972 01 01+, 1972 12 31- / 1972 12 31-
- associated date
- 1966 - 1973
- printer
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- ID Number
- 1979.0219.026
- catalog number
- 1979.0219.026
- accession number
- 1979.0219
- 1979.0219
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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50 cents
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1971 A
- 1971
- maker
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.121
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.121
- serial number
- A00001022A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Library of Congress Punch Card
- Description
- The late 1960s were a time of rapid change in processes for cataloging and circulating books at the U.S. Library of Congress. Computers were introduced for preparing cataloging records for libraries across the nation and for tracking and distributing books sent out on interlibrary loan. This is one card used in the process. It relates to a volume entitled Apparatus and Experiment SD Int. by Weiss, which had call number QP461 W4 1916. It was checked out on 12-22-72 to Borrower OS500. A mark on the bottom edge of the card reads: HP/ECC-1294-0.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1972
- 1972
- date made
- 1972
- maker
- Library of Congress
- ID Number
- 2002.3058.02
- nonaccession number
- 2002.3058
- catalog number
- 2002.3058.02
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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5 dollars
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1970
- depicted (sitter)
- Lincoln, Abraham
- maker
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.085
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.085
- serial number
- E00000841A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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5 dollars
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1971
- depicted (sitter)
- Lincoln, Abraham
- maker
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.084
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.084
- serial number
- E42113422B
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1978
- referenced
- Sweet Honey In The Rock
- ID Number
- 2003.3091.212
- nonaccession number
- 2003.3091
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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50 cents
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1973
- maker
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- ID Number
- 2010.0019.124
- accession number
- 2010.0019
- catalog number
- 2010.0019.124
- serial number
- B06205175A
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Book, "Lone Heart Mountain," autographed copy by artist Estelle Ishigo, 1971
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1970s
- ID Number
- 2016.3086.074
- catalog number
- 2016.3086.074
- nonaccession number
- 2016.3086
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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