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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 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 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

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. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenneth Stewart heads the OWI staff which gathers news of wartime Washington for use by the Overseas Division in New York and San Francisco. News sent from Washington, queries answered here, find their way into shortwave broadcasts to occupied lands; pamphlets and leaflets dropped on hostile towns and villages; cables carrying news of America to our friends and allies. Achilles Sakell talks over a script for the Balkan countries with Stewart

Office of War Information news bureau. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenneth Stewart heads the OWI staff which gathers news of wartime Washington for use by the Overseas Division in New York and San Francisco. News sent from Washington, queries answered here, find their way into shortwave broadcasts to occupied lands; pamphlets and leaflets dropped on hostile towns and villages; cables carrying news of America to our friends and allies. Achilles Sakell talks over a script for the Balkan countries with Stewart

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. The News Bureau room of the OWI. It is arranged much the same way as the city room of a daily newspaper. Here, war news of the world is disseminated. In the foreground, are editors' desks handling such special services as trade press, women's activities, and campaigns. The news desk is in the background

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell

War worker goes to Washington. Typical of the thousands of young Negro women summoned to Washington, D.C. for war work, Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, arrives at Union Station in the nation's capital to accept an appointment as clerk in the Mail and File Section of the Ordnance Department of the War Department. It was a cold and dreary morning when Miss Carrol arrived

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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01/01/1943

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United States. Office of War Information.

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