YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards

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https://doi.org/10.13020/D6KT2Q
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200709

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World War I

YMCA

Collection period

1917
1919

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YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards

Published Date

2018-10-29

Authors

National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States

Group

Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries

Author Contact

Friedman-Shedlov, Lara
ldfs@umn.edu

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Human Subjects Data
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Abstract

In the course of staffing its assigned operations and the other activities in support of the armed forces during World War I, the American YMCA recruited a grand total of 25,926 workers who, about equally divided between home and overseas assignments, served under the auspices of the organization. A partially machine-readable punch card was generated for each worker, including some or all of the following data: name, gender (men are on buff cards, women on white, African American Y/N (blue cards), year of birth, address, occupation, work placement, Placement date, salary, date left or returned, qualifications, religion, placed home vs. overseas, marital status, and education. The cards, which total approximately 27,600 including cross-reference cards, were digitized by the University of Minnesota Libraries and subsequently transcribed and indexed by FamilySearch International.

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The dataset includes 27,364 jpg files (digital scans of the punch cards), an Excel spreadsheet compiling transcribed data from the cards, and a csv file with technical metadata for the digital scans.

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Version 1:
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/200709.1

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CC0 1.0 Universal
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Data Repository for U of M (DRUM)

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National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States. (2018). YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/D6KT2Q.

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