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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Typing on flatbed typewriter at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Typing on flatbed typewriter at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Typing on flatbed typewriter at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers

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

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A black and white photo of a man working on a typewriter, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and tabulator operator in the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the punched tape through the machine that marks the cards on traffic movement

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Typing on flatbed typewriter at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers

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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
Temp. note: owibatch3
Film copy on SIS roll 7, frame 1524.

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01/01/1943
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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