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The Gov't Printing Office in Wash. is busy filling an order for 15,000,000 instruction and application blanks to be used by the veterans of the world war in applying for their bonus. The blanks are being issued at the rate of 2,000,000 per day for which Uncle Sam purchased 11,000 reams of paper

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The Gov't Printing Office in Wash. is busy filling an order for 15,000,000 instruction and application blanks to be used by the veterans of the world war in applying for their bonus. The blanks are being issued at the rate of 2,000,000 per day for which Uncle Sam purchased 11,000 reams of paper

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Two men working on a machine in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
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
Temp. note: Batch seven.

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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01/01/1924
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district of columbia
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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