A large replica of the punch cards that the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts uses to help manage the complex tasks it oversees, Washington, DC on 23 February 1945

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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493.Photograph. 'File Number: 119486 Feb. 23, 1945 'BUSANDA' marks 150th Anniversary of the Supply Corps on February 23, 1945--- by staying on the job. The activities pictured in this series are but a few of the Bureau's complex and integrated tasks. Accounting for literally billions of varied items and making sure that each ship and shore station has enough of all standard materials is another function of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. To accomplish this, ultra-modern business machines utilizing 'punched cards' have been installed in continental supply activities. A huge replica of such a card shown at the right, is held by Lt. Arthur W. Peterson, SC(S) USNR, Brooklyn, N.Y. [New York], with Commander J. S. McAfee, SC, USN, Valley Mills, Texas, Officer-in-charge of the Methods and Procedures Staff, Stock Division, looking on approvingly. His staff helped perfect the new system.' 23 February 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Charles Ives
Accession Number: 
2011.102.493
Date: 
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
US Navy
Theater of Service: 
Home Front
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Campaign / Event: 
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Punched card systems
Office equipment & supplies
Military officers--American--Washington, District of Columbia
Collection Level: 
The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
Geography: 
Washington
Latitude: 
38.883
Longitude: 
-77.033
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Punched card systems
Office equipment & supplies
Military officers--American--Washington, District of Columbia