
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
Summary
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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Date
01/01/1943
Contributors
Smith, Roger, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain