Cardpunch Operators
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.
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Social Security History
This is an archival or historical document and may not reflect current policies or procedures.