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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Harriette Thorne is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the Bureau of Publications and Graphics

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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Harriette Thorne is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the Bureau of Publications and Graphics

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the teletype room of the OWI. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Esther V. Myers is shown at a receiving machine in the teletype room of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics while Miss Shirley K. Conway dispatches news on an ASR machine

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the teletype room of the OWI. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Esther V. Myers is shown at a receiving machine in the teletype room of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics while Miss Shirley K. Conway dispatches news on an ASR machine

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information News Bureau. George McMillan, assistant chief of the OWI news bureau, talks over a program for a series of releases on inflation with Herb Plummer, standing at his right, Jack Durham and Joe Polakoff. When a series of releases is planned, the news bureau schedules them, often including plans for releases for rural papers, trade papers, house organs, etc., as well as the daily press

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, sees that Negro papers across the country get their share of war news. Tale of a City, an OWI pamphlet on Nazi treatment of Poland, which Poston and Roessner are discussing here, was distributed through the Negro desk to 240 papers, and 50,000 copies went to Negro organizations

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, sees that Negro papers across the country get their share of war news. Tale of a City, an OWI pamphlet on Nazi treatment of Poland, which Poston and Roessner are discussing here, was distributed through the Negro desk to 240 papers, and 50,000 copies went to Negro organizations

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Harriette Thorne is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the Bureau of Publications and Graphics

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Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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district of columbia washington dc safety film negatives office war information war information nerve center nerve center field employment negroes girls jobs teletype room teletype room women owi american telephone american telephone telegraph school telegraph school washington machines parts country miss harriette thorne miss harriette thorne asr asr teletype machine bureau publications graphics female portrait woman photograph telegraph invention 1940s 40s young woman race relations united states history african americans 1940 s library of congress
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01/01/1943
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Smith, Roger, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States ,  38.90719, -77.03687
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Chicago, Illinois. The USO (United Service Organizations) lounge is on the River Drive side of the Union Station above the telegrapher's office

Michigan Congressman tries hand again. Washington D.C. A former telegrapher, Rep. John Lueke, new Democratic member of the House from Michigan, just couldn't resist tapping out a few words as he passes through the House press gallery today

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of civilian defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. Pasting up a telegram at the Western Union telegraph office

Workers at work, most are sitting behind sewing machines.

Installation of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) exhibit of original drawings and paintings by artists now in the armed forces. Preview, before shipping to Australia, held at the office of the Overseas Picture Division in the Auditor's Building

Sending the weather data down thru the compressed air tube from the teletype room. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. The Civil Aeronautics Communication station where observations and weather forecasts from all sections of the country are received and transmitted over land line teletype circuits

["Thornedale," Oakleigh Thorne house, Millbrook, New York. Lawn to pond]

Edwin Thorne - Print, Library of Congress collection

Landon Thorne, Wendell Wilkie [sic] and John Cowles / World-Telegram photo by Al. Ravenna.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Milled, bored and with their V-shaped bearings carefully scraped to provide smooth sliding ways for other parts, this forest of machine tool castings waits at the head of the assembly lines. An idea of the variety of shapes and sizes is evident here

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district of columbia washington dc safety film negatives office war information war information nerve center nerve center field employment negroes girls jobs teletype room teletype room women owi american telephone american telephone telegraph school telegraph school washington machines parts country miss harriette thorne miss harriette thorne asr asr teletype machine bureau publications graphics female portrait woman photograph telegraph invention 1940s 40s young woman race relations united states history african americans 1940 s library of congress