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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

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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

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1252.

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Date

01/01/1943

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Location

district of columbia

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Library of Congress

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