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![Baltimore, Md. For each block of 1,000 social security account applications 'work' cards are prepared. One work card is made for each operation incident to seeting up individual accounts and necessary indexes. The photograph above shows a worker in the Social Security Board Records Office at work at the 'visible control' rack. Each card in this rack represents an operation completed on one block[?] of applications. By glancing at each compartment in the rack, the number of operations completed can be estimated at once](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzcvMDEvMDEvYmFsdGltb3JlLW1kLWZvci1lYWNoLWJsb2NrLW9mLTEwMDAtc29jaWFsLXNlY3VyaXR5LWFjY291bnQtYXBwbGljYXRpb25zLXdvcmstNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "Baltimore, Md. For each block of 1,000 social security account applications 'work' cards are prepared. One work card is made for each operation incident to seeting up individual accounts and necessary indexes. The photograph above shows a worker in the Social Security Board Records Office at work at the 'visible control' rack. Each card in this rack represents an operation completed on one block[?] of applications. By glancing at each compartment in the rack, the number of operations completed can be estimated at once")
![Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The [...]ing system was adopted as a "foolproof" methods of keeping track of names, whether or not misspelled by their owners in subsequent correspondence. The system also is of great value in simplifying many of the mechanical operations necessary to set up and maintain individual wage record accounts for the millions or workers covered by the Social Security Act. the photograph [above shows](?) workers in the Records Office coding names of [applicants]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzcvMDEvMDEvYmFsdGltb3JlLW1kLWEtY29kaW5nLXN5c3RlbS13aGljaC1lbGltaW5hdGVzLWFsbC12b3dlbHMtYW5kLXNvbWUtY29uc29uYW50cy02NDAuanBn/40/32/webp "Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The [...]ing system was adopted as a \"foolproof\" methods of keeping track of names, whether or not misspelled by their owners in subsequent correspondence. The system also is of great value in simplifying many of the mechanical operations necessary to set up and maintain individual wage record accounts for the millions or workers covered by the Social Security Act. the photograph [above shows](?) workers in the Records Office coding names of [applicants]")
Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in several ways in the Social Security Board Records Office. The photograph above shows a Records Office worker at a machine which is listing in numerical sequence on a loose leaf ledger page a record of account numbers issued, to whom they were issued and other identifying data for future reference as one of the several means employed to make certain individual wage record accounts are correctly set up to be maintained
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A black and white photo of a woman working at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
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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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