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Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government's experts on money matters met with Senate and House leaders today to discuss legislation to be submitted to the 75th session of Congress. A discussion was made at the conference to extend the life of important federal monetary lending agencies, and also, to move in giving the President authority to discontinue the R.F.C. at anytime the conditions warrant. In the photograph, left to right: Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Treasury; Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board

Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government'...

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Don't fight cancer alone Ask these agencies for advice [....]

Don't fight cancer alone Ask these agencies for advice [....]

Poster encouraging cancer patients to seek information from various agencies, showing a woman holding a caduceus and standing on a crab. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Caption continues: Your state or local... More

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from all government agencies to 240 Negro papers each week, Ted Poston, editor of the OWI's Negro desk in Washington, selects picture sequences of special interest to the Negro press. He is shown working with photographer Roger Smith and assistant William Clark, and Harriette Easterlin

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from...

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Government reorganization hearing Washington, D.C., Aug 2. Dr. Charles E. Merriam, a member of the President's Government Reorganization Committee, today urged the special Senate Reorganization Committee to take favorable action on the Robinson bill to revamp federal administration agencies, arguing in favor of the bill, Merriam contended it would destroy the patronage system and promote more effective congressional supervision through committees on accounts and planning...

Government reorganization hearing Washington, D.C., Aug 2. Dr. Charles...

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National Parole Conference brings law and penal experts to Capital. Washington, D.C., April 17. The first general session of the National Parole Conference, called by the President for the purpose of trying to coordinate federal, state, and local agencies with all phases of law enforcement. Left to right. Sam Lewisohn, member of the N.Y. State Commission of Correction and temporary chairman of the conference, Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York, Attorney General Frank Murphy, and James B. Bennet, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

National Parole Conference brings law and penal experts to Capital. Wa...

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The bread boy - at the camp at Salonica for Greeks who have been brought back from the Caucasus for the purpose of colonizing their country's rewon province of Thrace They have been delayed at Salonica where they landed and their plight has become so bad that the American Red Cross and other relief agencies have stepped in to stem the misery and death.

The bread boy - at the camp at Salonica for Greeks who have been broug...

Filed in: Greece Children General. No. RC-8724. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, banks, liquor stores, taprooms, hotels, bars, beauty parlors, barber shops, war plants, American Legion posts, railways, bus and airline terminals, and government agencies. The original is 26 inches by 13 3/4 inches and is printed in red and black on white. Copies may be obtained from the Bureau of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI ...

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Pinkerton ace quizzed by Senate Investigators. Washington, D.C. After hearing testimony that the Pinkerton Detective Agency sought to sell Its service to the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee to investigate other labor espionage agencies, Samuel X. Brady, Chief of the Cincinnati office of the Pinkerton's, was questioned about the part he played in the negotiations. E.C. Davidson, Secretary of the International Association of Machinists and also Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, charged that Brady had contacted him last summer with the request that the Mayor act as go between. Brady, in denying the charge, financed by General Motors for the purpose of making inquireies about the CIO

Pinkerton ace quizzed by Senate Investigators. Washington, D.C. After ...

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Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To assure adequate civilian supply of canned produce in the future, householders are urged to save their used cans and turn them in to their local collection agencies, which will send them to detinning mills. Reclaimed metals from these plants will go, in part, into more cans for American soldiers and civilians

Women in war. Summer canning workers. Why tin cans should be saved. To...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for shipment. Now undergoing conversion to production of machine gun parts for Uncle Sam's army, this plant has only a small percentage of its equipment still producing oil burners. Those still rolling off the assembly lines are sent primarily to U.S. Army agencies or shipped abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. A battery of oil burners ready for s...

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

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Crack shot of White House police force. Washington, D.C., Aug. 10. Outstanding marksman of the White House police force is Roland Ford, today averaged 294 bullseyes out of a possible 300 while shooting in competition with marksmen from other agencies in the Treasury Department. Forty-eight experts competed for medals and cup for themselves and their services in the friendly matches, 8/10/37

Crack shot of White House police force. Washington, D.C., Aug. 10. Out...

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Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. Don MacDonald, Washington, D.C. typewriter dealer, affixes a decalcomania on a machine turned in to the government by John Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man. This was one of the first typewriters thus enlisted in the war effort. The decalcomania reads: "Property of U.S. Government - severe penalties for unlawful use"

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Executive heads of national advertising agencies at W.H., 10/29/24

Executive heads of national advertising agencies at W.H., 10/29/24

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Winner and runner up in Treasury shoot. Washington, D.C., Aug 10. Averaging 298 out of a possible 300 bullseyes, L.E. Echols, (right) Customs Inspector at San Juan Puerto Rico, today won the Secretary's individual match in competition with marksmen from other agencies in the Treasury Department. On the left is A.L. Meloche, Alcohol Tax Unit; the runner-up with 297 out of a possible 300, 8/10/37

Winner and runner up in Treasury shoot. Washington, D.C., Aug 10. Aver...

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Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the program by which America's farm women plan to help win the war. Graham Patterson, publisher of Farm journal and farmer's wife, national farm magazine, is seen here presenting the "War Platform" which twenty-eight leading farm women, speaking for the rural homemakers of America, drew up in a recent Chicago conference sponsored by this magazine. Several sections of the platform were addressed directly to Mr. Nelson's board and other goverment agencies. It contains thirty-one practical ways in which farm women declare they can help

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the progr...

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Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the program by which America's farm women plan to help win the war. Graham Patterson, publisher of Farm journal and farmer's wife, national farm magazine, is seen here presenting the "War Platform" which twenty-eight leading farm women, speaking for the rural homemakers of America, drew up in a recent Chicago conference sponsored by this magazine. Several sections of the platform were addressed directly to Mr. Nelson's board and other goverment agencies. It contains thirty-one practical ways in which farm women declare they can help

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the progr...

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It sustained him--and it supported the war-time agencies that helped him! Victory Fund Campaign--The new era movement of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. / / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; American Lithographic Co., N.Y.

It sustained him--and it supported the war-time agencies that helped h...

Poster showing a soldier in a battlefield, gazing up at a cross glowing in the sky.

Executive heads of national advertising agencies at W.H., 10/29/24

Executive heads of national advertising agencies at W.H., 10/29/24

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War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. This shows the first meeting of the newly formed War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. The committee consists of representatives of light government agencies concerned with the sugar problem. The committee was formed to exchange information and to recommend and formulate programs for the correlation of the activities of the various agencies concerned with the sugar problem. A. E. Bowman, Chief of the War Production Board Sugar Section is Committee Chairman. He is seated in the center. Other members are from left to right: Philip Nichols, War Production Board attorney, who is secretary of the Committee; J. E. Brunner, War Shipping Administration; F. H. Rawls, U.S. Department of Commerce; J. H. Westing, Office of Price Administration (OPA); S. H. Sabin, Defense Supplies Corp.; Guy J. Swope, Department of the Interior; L. Duggan, State Department; and Dr. Joshua Bernhardt, Department of Agriculture

War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. This shows the first meet...

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Samples of their footwear - showing the need for American shoes in the Greek camp at Salonica established for Greeks brought from the Caucasus for the purpose of colonizing their rewon province of Thrace American relief agencies are doing their best to provide food, clothing and medical aid for the stricken voyagers.

Samples of their footwear - showing the need for American shoes in the...

Filed in: Greece Children. No. RC-8719. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

President appoints committee of four cabinet members to cooperate with Red Cross in aiding flood sufferers. After making an appeal to the people of the country today for prompt and generous contributions to the American Red Cross relief fund for sufferers in the flood area of the Mississippi river, President Coolidge appointed a committee of four cabinet members to cooperate with the officers of the Red Cross in their relief work. The cabinet members met with Red Cross Officials today in Washington to determine how the Federal Government through its many agencies can best cooperate. In the photograph, left to right; (sitting) Rear Admiral E.R. Stitt, chief of U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis; Secretary of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur; James L. Feiser, Acting Chairman of the Red Cross; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Charles S. Dewey; Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon and Miss [...]

President appoints committee of four cabinet members to cooperate with...

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Taft to head mobilization for human needs Washington D.C June 29. Preceding a call upon President Roosevelt at the White House today, Charles P. Taft, accepted the National Chairmanship of the Community Mobilization for Human Needs, appointment of the Steel Meditation Board Chairman to head a campaign for support of the country's private health and welfare agencies was announced today by Stillman F. Westbook, Hartford Conn.. President of Community Chests and Councils, the Administrative Agency of Mobilization, Albert[?] Burns, of N.Y.C. Executive Vice President of the organization also conferred with the President. Left to right: Westbrook, Taft, and Burns;

Taft to head mobilization for human needs Washington D.C June 29. Prec...

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General planning. In bringing down its overall planning program to actual cases, the Authority works in intimate contact with local political institutions, and county, city, and state planning agencies, most of which owe their existence to TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) instigation. Models, designs, surveys, drafts of ordinances and legislation are developed by TVA technicians to assist in the physical replanning of the valley

General planning. In bringing down its overall planning program to act...

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"End jealousies." Washington, D.C., April 6. Jealousies between various governmental agencies would cease if congress would immediately enact legislation to regulate air commerce, Senator Pat McCaran, of Nevada, today told the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee, 4/6/38

"End jealousies." Washington, D.C., April 6. Jealousies between variou...

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Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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Conservation of durable goods. So-o-o-o big! But still not quite big enough to sell to the junk man or give to the Red Cross, Boy Scouts or other agencies in the neighborhood. Conservation of waste paper will save millions of dollars annually for Uncle Sam. When that pile is broomstick high, they'll be a hundred pounds of essential

Conservation of durable goods. So-o-o-o big! But still not quite big e...

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Office of War Information News Bureau. Like a busy city desk, the domestic news desk concentrates on getting releases out to meet deadlines of its press room's seventy-five to one hundred correspondents. After they reach the Office of War Imformation, each of the fifty or more daily releases are passed on to Jack Durham by Hy Aronstam, news desk chief, standing at phone. Durham sees that releases agree with policies of all government agencies involved, prevents contradictory statements from going out. Pipe-lighting Joe Polakoff copy reads and edits releases

Office of War Information News Bureau. Like a busy city desk, the dome...

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Senate Committee on Governmental Reorganization. Washington, D.C. Jan 14. The Senate Committee, of which Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia is chairman, on Government Reorganization Economies met this morning to consider Brookings Institute recommendations denying President Roosevelt the free hand he desires in altering the Executive Branch. The recommendations were for consolidations in Federal Credit Agencies to save at least $30,000,000. In the photograph, left to right; Senator Charles L. McNary, of Oregon; Majority Leader; Senator John G. Townsend, Jr., Delaware; Senator Harry Flood Byrd; Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming; and Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Senate Majority Leader

Senate Committee on Governmental Reorganization. Washington, D.C. Jan ...

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Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture,

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

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Appointed to newly created Department of Agriculture post. Washington, D.C., July 1. Dr. Ralph L. Dewey today assumed his duties as head of the newly created Division of Transportation in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Dewey was formerly in charge of Transportation Studies at Ohio State University and has been associated with transportation activities in various government agencies. The new division will administer that section of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 relating to transportation of farm products, 7/1/38

Appointed to newly created Department of Agriculture post. Washington,...

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Jane Womack models new uniform selected for 100,000 defense volunteers to be trained as nurse's aides by the American Red Cross. The training project, in collaboration with the Office of Civilian Defense, is designed to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because of demand for nurses

Jane Womack models new uniform selected for 100,000 defense volunteers...

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[Powhatan Hotel, left, and the Hurley-Wright building, right, which housed the Railroad Commission, among other agencies, at the intersection of 18th Street, Pennsylvania Ave., and H. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

[Powhatan Hotel, left, and the Hurley-Wright building, right, which ho...

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Boston merchant before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. Louis E. Kirstein, Boston merchant, appearing before the senate unemployment committee, said "that developments have reached the stage in this country where no one group of agencies can deal adequately with the totality of community needs." "Neither the federal, state, nor local city or town units meet these needs. In other words," he said, "what we need is a program in which every agency, public or private, federal, state, or local will play its part without sacrificing any of the values and special contributions which each type or agency can make," 1/13/38

Boston merchant before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. Lo...

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FAC Head appears before Senate committee. Washington, D.C., March 31 -F.F. Hill, left, Governor of the Senate Banking and Currency Subcommittee which is considering pending bills relating to mortgages held by agencies of the F.C.A. Hill is shown with Chairman Alben W. Barkley of the Committee, and Payton R. Evans, General Counsel of the F.C.A. 3-31-39

FAC Head appears before Senate committee. Washington, D.C., March 31 -...

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War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. This shows the first meeting of the newly formed War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. The committee consists of representatives of light government agencies concerned with the sugar problem. The committee was formed to exchange information and to recommend and formulate programs for the correlation of the activities of the various agencies concerned with the sugar problem. A. E. Bowman, Chief of the War Production Board Sugar Section is Committee Chairman. He is seated in the center. Other members are from left to right: Philip Nichols, War Production Board attorney, who is secretary of the Committee; J. E. Brunner, War Shipping Administration; F. H. Rawls, U.S. Department of Commerce; J. H. Westing, Office of Price Administration (OPA); S. H. Sabin, Defense Supplies Corp.; Guy J. Swope, Department of the Interior; L. Duggan, State Department; and Dr. Joshua Bernhardt, Department of Agriculture

War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. This shows the first meet...

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Bridges. Highway bridge near Soddy, Tennessee, where, in cooperation with work relief agencies and the governing body of the county, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) developed an arm of Chickamauga Lake for recreational uses

Bridges. Highway bridge near Soddy, Tennessee, where, in cooperation w...

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"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speaking before the 26th Annual Meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce today, John J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, declared the plight of the carriers is traceable to public demand for "something for nothing". At the same time he assailed government subsidization of competing transportation agencies and rebuked the business men for sponsoring "many needless and expensive waterway projects" in search of "cheap transportation," 5/4/38

"Something for Nothing" want of public. Washington, D.C., May 4. Speak...

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Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the program by which America's farm women plan to help win the war. Graham Patterson, publisher of Farm journal and farmer's wife, national farm magazine, is seen here presenting the "War Platform" which twenty-eight leading farm women, speaking for the rural homemakers of America, drew up in a recent Chicago conference sponsored by this magazine. Several sections of the platform were addressed directly to Mr. Nelson's board and other goverment agencies. It contains thirty-one practical ways in which farm women declare they can help

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the progr...

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Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. John K. Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man, turns a machine over to Don MacDonald, Washington, D.C. typewriter dealer, who accepts it on behalf of the government at the fixed rate. This is one of the first typewriters thus enlisted in the war effort

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Ladies of the White House secretariat. Washington, D.C., Feb. 19. Headed by Miss Margaret "Missy" Lehand, personal secretary to President Roosevelt, these girl secretaries play an important part behind the scenes at the White House. They hail from five states and include brunettes, redheads, and blondes, with scatterings of iron-gray. In the front row, seated, left to right: Miss Robert Barrows, Secretary to Marvin H. McIntyre; Miss Grace Tully, to whom President Roosevelt dictates his speeches, State papers, etc.; Miss Marguerite Lehand; Miss Margaret Durand, Secretary to James Roosevelt; Miss Mary Eben, who cares for and catalogs the President's personal books and the White House Library. Back row, left to right: Paual Larabee takes care of the President's personal files and looks up things; Toinette [?] Bachelder, Assistant Secretary to Marvin McIntyre; Mabel Williams, Secretary to Bill Hassett, Steve Early's Assistant; Katherine Gilligan, Assistant in James Roosevelt's office; Prudence Shannon, Secretary to Stephen T. Early; Lucile Lewis handles much of the White House mail, routes it to Government Departments and Agencies for answer when necessary; Louise Hackmeister was brought from Albany to operate the White House switchboard, the first woman to ever man this important line of communication; and Lela Stiles, who assists Miss Lewis in handling the White House mail, 2/19/38

Ladies of the White House secretariat. Washington, D.C., Feb. 19. Head...

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Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Inventory at war production clinic, San Francisco, California, reveals over 3,000 items on display needed by government agencies and prime contractors. Pictured here is a U.S. Army assault boat wanted by Army engineers. Marion Bauman and Florence Carr aid Ray Hawksley, exhibit manager, with inventory

Inventory at war production clinic, San Francisco, California, reveals...

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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Dr. Frank Munk, director of the school, addressing a class. Dr. Munk is one of the two permanent faculty members of the school. Other instructors are secured from various governmental agencies in Washington, and include both civilian and military authorities

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training cente...

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Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain. Its working and anti-monopolist agencies. The Atlantic cable combination. Alleged sales of news and press messages ... From the New York Herald of March 7, 1870.

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain....

Telegraph. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 128, Folder 4.

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the program by which America's farm women plan to help win the war. Graham Patterson, publisher of Farm journal and farmer's wife, national farm magazine, is seen here presenting the "War Platform" which twenty-eight leading farm women, speaking for the rural homemakers of America, drew up in a recent Chicago conference sponsored by this magazine. Several sections of the platform were addressed directly to Mr. Nelson's board and other goverment agencies. It contains thirty-one practical ways in which farm women declare they can help

Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, studies the progr...

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Young women on the nation's myriad filing lines, plow their efficient way through the miles of additional clerical work which the war has brought to government agencies in Washington and throughout the United States of America

Young women on the nation's myriad filing lines, plow their efficient ...

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Frederic W. Goudy: a memorial Sunday, May 11, 1947. New York. Advertising Agencies' service company, Inc. 1947.

Frederic W. Goudy: a memorial Sunday, May 11, 1947. New York. Advertis...

Gift Advertising agencies service company Inc.; Rec. 7-17-48. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection... More

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain. Its working and anti-monopolist agencies. The Atlantic cable combination. Alleged sales of news and press messages ... From the New York Herald of March 7, 1870.

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain....

Telegraph. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 128, Folder 4.

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

"Buy Coal Now" poster. As part of a national campaign urging consumers to buy coal now to help clear the way for heavy war shipments later, the above poster is being sent to railroads, wholesale and retail coal dealers, and various public and private agencies. The poster was prepared by the Consumer Division of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and the U.S. Bituminous Coal Consumer's Council

"Buy Coal Now" poster. As part of a national campaign urging consumers...

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War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. This shows the first meeting of the newly formed War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. The committee consists of representatives of light government agencies concerned with the sugar problem. The committee was formed to exchange information and to recommend and formulate programs for the correlation of the activities of the various agencies concerned with the sugar problem. A. E. Bowman, Chief of the War Production Board Sugar Section is Committee Chairman. He is seated in the center. Other members are from left to right: Philip Nichols, War Production Board attorney, who is secretary of the Committee; J. E. Brunner, War Shipping Administration; F. H. Rawls, U.S. Department of Commerce; J. H. Westing, Office of Price Administration (OPA); S. H. Sabin, Defense Supplies Corp.; Guy J. Swope, Department of the Interior; L. Duggan, State Department; and Dr. Joshua Bernhardt, Department of Agriculture

War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee. This shows the first meet...

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Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain. Its working and anti-monopolist agencies. The Atlantic cable combination. Alleged sales of news and press messages ... From the New York Herald of March 7, 1870.

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain....

Telegraph. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 128, Folder 4.

Frederic W. Goudy: a memorial Sunday, May 11, 1947. New York. Advertising Agencies' service company, Inc. 1947.

Frederic W. Goudy: a memorial Sunday, May 11, 1947. New York. Advertis...

Gift Advertising agencies service company Inc.; Rec. 7-17-48. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection... More

Boston merchant before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. Louis E. Kirstein, Boston merchant, appearing before the senate unemployment committee, said "that developments have reached the stage in this country where no one group of agencies can deal adequately with the totality of community needs." "Neither the federal, state, nor local city or town units meet these needs. In other words," he said, "what we need is a program in which every agency, public or private, federal, state, or local will play its part without sacrificing any of the values and special contributions which each type or agency can make," 11338

Boston merchant before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. Lo...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 19... More

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain. Its working and anti-monopolist agencies. The Atlantic cable combination. Alleged sales of news and press messages ... From the New York Herald of March 7, 1870.

Electric telegraphs. The government telegraph system of Great Britain....

Telegraph. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 128, Folder 4.

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB) has launched a campaign to secure 600,000 used typewriters from business firms and private individuals. These machines are needed by the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Board of Economic Warfare, Lend-Lease and other government departments and agencies. John K. Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man, turns in one of his typewriters to the government. This is one of the first machines thus enlisted in the war effort

Conservation. Used typewriter campaign. The War Production Board (WPB)...

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Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by federal and state agencies /

Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : an analysis of data submitted by feder...

Relief shown by contours and spot heights on some sheets. Cover title. At head of title: 99th Congress, 2d session, committee print no. 6. Title from p. 17 of text: Yellowstone, ecosystem, resources, and manage... More

Young Roosevelt begins parleys. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Among the first to meet with James Roosevelt, son of the president and a member of his secretariat, as he began his conferences today with head of independent and emergency agencies, were Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board, and Mary W. Dewson, a member of the board. The conferences, which are to be held Monday and Tuesday of every week, are expected to solve the administration problems and effect better coordination, 11/1/37

Young Roosevelt begins parleys. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Among the fi...

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"End jealousies." Washington, D.C., April 6. Jealousies between various governmental agencies would cease if congress would immediately enact legislation to regulate air commerce, Senator Pat McCaran, of Nevada, today told the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee, 4/6/38

"End jealousies." Washington, D.C., April 6. Jealousies between variou...

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