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Unemployment census blanks prepared for mailing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. As rapidly as the presses in the Government Printing Office print the unemployment census blanks, workers trim and prepare them for mailing. 3,000,000 of the cards are printed daily as the pressmen keep the huge presses running on a 240hour schedule. 10/7/37

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Unemployment census blanks prepared for mailing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. As rapidly as the presses in the Government Printing Office print the unemployment census blanks, workers trim and prepare them for mailing. 3,000,000 of the cards are printed daily as the pressmen keep the huge presses running on a 240hour schedule. 10/7/37

Printing unemployment census questionnaires. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Scene at the Government Printing Office where 3,000,000 unemployment census questionnaires are being printed daily. Pressmen are working 24 hours a day in order to fill the huge order of 79,000,000 cards which the Census Bureau will mail out the middle of November. 10737

Printing unemployment census questionnaires. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Scene at the Government Printing Office where 3,000,000 unemployment census questionnaires are being printed daily. Pressmen are working 24 hours a day in order to fill the huge order of 79,000,000 cards which the Census Bureau will mail out the middle of November. 10/7/37

Folding unemployment blanks. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Coming off the press at the rate of 3,000,000 a day, the unemployment census questionnaires are automatically folded and then bundled for delivery to the post office, 10737

Folding unemployment blanks. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Coming off the press at the rate of 3,000,000 a day, the unemployment census questionnaires are automatically folded and then bundled for delivery to the post office, 10/7/37

Armload of unemployment blanks. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Sue Becker, of the Government Printing Office staff, has her arms full with a batch of the unemployment census cards which she has just prepared for mailing. 10737

Inspects unemployment questionnaire as it comes off the press. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. A pressman frequently inspects the sheets of unemployment census blanks as they come off the press at the Government Printing office. 3,000,000 of the questionnaires are being printed daily at Uncle Sam's big printing plant. 10737

Counting of returns from unemployment questionnaire gets under way. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Tabulation of the returns from the millions of unemployment questionnaires mailed out last week was started today when final instructions were issued by John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Director, to the hundreds of clerks employed to accomplish the huge task. Left to right: Director John D. Biggers; William L. Austin, Director of the Census; and Frederick A. Gosnell, representing the Lost Census Bureau at the Unemployment Census Tabulating, 112437

Will administrate federal unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. John D. Biggers, Toledo, Ohio, glass manufacturing president, leaving the White House today after accepting an appointment from President Roosevelt as Administrator of a Federal Unemployment Census. Biggers revealed that the census probably will be made entirely through the Post Office Department. The administration previously considering utilizing election facilities. Whatever final plan is adopted, the count will be made on the basis of voluntary registration and not a door-to-door canvass, Biggers said. 9163

Unemployment census blanks prepared for mailing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. As rapidly as the presses in the Government Printing Office print the unemployment census blanks, workers trim and prepare them for mailing. 3,000,000 of the cards are printed daily as the pressmen keep the huge presses running on a 240hour schedule. 10737

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A black and white photo of a group of people working in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.

Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.

General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec

Temp. note: Batch five.

The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)

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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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Closed old court; will open in? Frank J. Wideman, Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division, will represent the government in the first case to go before the Supreme Court in the new building, and he holds the honor of arguing the last case to be heard in the old Supreme Court quarters. He has won 10 out of his last 11 cases. He represented the government, and won, in the Sandy-Fox case last session, which involved the Five Civilized Indian Tribes vis the United States. He will defend the government in the Douglas-Willicutts case, in which Edward B. Douglas seeks a return of tax money from Levi M. Willicutts, Collector of Internal Revenue, 10/4/35

Graf Zeppelin stamps go? Assistant Postmaster General Frederic A. Tilton purchasing the first Graf Zeppelin stamps which were sold at the Washington city post office today. Mrs. M.C. Shaughnessy, Assistant Philatolic Agent, is shown selling the stamps to the General. Others in the photograph, left to right: Assistant Washington Postmaster W.H. Haycock; Philip H. Ward, editor, Makeel's Weekly Stamp News; Assistant Postmaster General Tilton; L. Eidsness, superintendent, Division of Stamps; and William M. Mooney, Washington Postmaster

Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Geological Survey, Interior Dept. Washington, D.C., Mar. 13. Horace Johnson engraving one of the copper plates that is used for a topographical map

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

John H. Edwards, Asst. Sec. of Interior Dept., 22525

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