Keywords: SocialSecurity.cardpunching.ssa.jpg Cardpunch operations at U S Social Security Administration Original caption This is a picture of a few of the hundreds of cardpunch operators SSA employed throughout the late 1930s and into the 1950s to maintain Social Security records in the days before the advent of computers From http //www ssa gov/history/acardpun html s 1940 Photographer not credited other versions page was on en wikipedia http //en wikipedia org/w/index php title Special Log page File SocialSecurity cardpunching ssa jpg file log All following user names refer to en wikipedia 14 07 3 March 2005 UTC ArnoldReinhold 608×476 224 KB <nowiki> Cardpunch operations at U S Social Security Administration </nowiki> Social Security Administration United States IBM punch card hardware Females with pince-nez Keypunch machines Women at work in the United States United States in the 1940s Data entry workers |