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[Group photograph of the teachers and the director of the school for artillery engineering] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople.

[Group photograph of the teachers and the director of the school for a...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 14. No. 352. In album: Imperial artillery and engineering schools, Tophane, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, an... More

Barclay's Mr. Clarks, Director, at his desk

Barclay's Mr. Clarks, Director, at his desk

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Slated for Dictatorship of Bureau of Air Commerce. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. According to reports Fred D. Flagg, Jr., of Chicago, will be named to succeed Eugene Vidal as Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, Department of Commerce. The talk is that the Bureau will be completely reorganized by Secretary Roper. The Report says that Vidal will be designated as a special representative of Secretary Roper for an eight week European tour to study aviation abroad and arrange for reciprical landing privileges for transatlantic flights

Slated for Dictatorship of Bureau of Air Commerce. Washington, D.C., J...

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Finnish Trade Delegation visits State Department. Washington, D.C., May 3. Little Finland which pays its bills, today was represented at the State Department by a trade delegation which paid a friendly visit. The group called upon Secretary Hull. Left to right, front: H.J. Procope, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Finland; R.V. Fieandt, Director of the OY. Pehjoismaiden[?] Yhdyspankki, AB. Nordiska Foreningsbanken, Julius Alanen, Managing Director of the Oy. Perma AB. back: Jaakko Kahma, Managing Director of the Finnish Trade Association; V.K. Latvala, Managing Director of the Erva-Latvala Oy. and President of the Finlandia News Service; Arthur Soderholm, Managing Director of the OY. Stockmann AB

Finnish Trade Delegation visits State Department. Washington, D.C., Ma...

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CUNNINGHAM, R.T. DIRECTOR OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF U.S.

CUNNINGHAM, R.T. DIRECTOR OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF U.S.

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Maj. Wallace W. Kirby, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, who has been appointed Acting Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Maj. Wallace W. Kirby, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, who has been app...

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[Are college students bashful? Film director says they are]

[Are college students bashful? Film director says they are]

Edmund Goulding, MGM director, helping William Twiddy and "Bill" Easton kiss while making a film with the motion picture class at Columbia University. National Photo Company Collection.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Lucille Little works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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Ways and Means Committee ready to act on pension bill. Rep. Robert L. Doughton, D. of N.C. chairman of the Ways and Means committee, left, listens to Edwin E. Witte, Executive Director of the Presidential Committee on Economic Security, as the committee considers various remifications of the old age pension bill now before the House. Wittee explained the broad phases of the entire economic security program, 1/21/35

Ways and Means Committee ready to act on pension bill. Rep. Robert L. ...

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Mr. John Franklin Carter, Director, Division of Information

Mr. John Franklin Carter, Director, Division of Information

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New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the new public contracts board of the Department of Labor met today for the first time shortly after they were appointed by the Secretary Perkins. Hearings will be held immediately by the Board to make findings upon questions arrising under the Walsh-Healey law which went into effect last week and requires that manufacturers and dealers who make future contracts in excess of $10,000 with the Government shall comply with certain minimum wage, maximum hour and other labor conditions in the performance of the contract. In the photograph, left to right; Telfair Knight, Counsel for the Textile Labor Relations Division, Frank Healey of the office of the Solicitor of the Labor Department; and Hugh L.Kerwin, Director of Conciliation, Textile Labor Relations Division

New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the ne...

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Walter E. Packard, Acting Director, Rural Resettlement Division

Walter E. Packard, Acting Director, Rural Resettlement Division

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General of power dine, Washington, D.C., September 11. W. Borquist, Chief Director of the Royal Board of Waterfalls of Sweden, and Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of the General Electric Co. snapped while attending the banquet given to the delegates of the Third World Power Conference held last night at the Union Station

General of power dine, Washington, D.C., September 11. W. Borquist, Ch...

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTED WITH NEW ARKANSAS CENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 29. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS TODAY PRESENTED WITH THE OUTSTANDING SOUVENIR OF THE ARKANSAS CENTENNIAL, AN ESPECIALLY MINTED SILVER HALF-DOLLAR BEARING THE LIKENESS OF SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: MRS. JOSEPH T. ROBINSON; HARVEY COUCH, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTENNIAL; AND SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTED WITH NEW ARKANSAS CENTENNIAL HALF-DOLLAR...

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Boston gets U.S. Chamber of Commerce award for health conservation. Washington, D.C., May 2. Boston, Massachusetts., was given the United States Chamber of Commerce Award today for the best accomplishment in health conservation in cities over 500,000 population. Dr. H.F. R. Watts, (left) Boston Health Commissioner, is pictured receiving the placque O.J. Arnold, a director of the Chamber of Commerce, as the 26th annual meeting of the Organization convened today, 5/2/38

Boston gets U.S. Chamber of Commerce award for health conservation. Wa...

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Harry Baltome, General Counsel. Thomas Buckner, Chairman of Board. Arthur Ballentine, Director

Harry Baltome, General Counsel. Thomas Buckner, Chairman of Board. Art...

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Harry Baltome, General Counsel. Thomas Buckner, Chairman of the Board. Arthur Ballentine, Director. New York Life

Harry Baltome, General Counsel. Thomas Buckner, Chairman of the Board....

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Blackwell Smith, assistant director of priorities in charge of policy

Blackwell Smith, assistant director of priorities in charge of policy

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William B. Phillips, left, Chief, Publications Section, Information Division, Office of Emergeny Management (OEM); and Robert W. Horton, right, Director, Information Division, OEM

William B. Phillips, left, Chief, Publications Section, Information Di...

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M.J. Kane, assistant director, Training within Industry. Still training engineer, American Telephone and Telegraph, New York

M.J. Kane, assistant director, Training within Industry. Still trainin...

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Hillman Sidney, associate director general of the Office of Production Management (OPM); member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; Director, Labor Division, Office of Production Management

Hillman Sidney, associate director general of the Office of Production...

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Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Service. Groups l. to r. Ruhi[?] Bey Abdul Hadi, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Tweedy, Capt. Law

Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Servic...

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Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Service. Groups, the Iraqui [i.e., Iraqi] Consul meeting the guests

Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Servic...

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A.J. Browning, deputy director, Division of Purchases, Office of Production Management (OPM)

A.J. Browning, deputy director, Division of Purchases, Office of Produ...

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James MacPherson. Assistant Director of purchases in charge of the Equipment and Supplies Branch of the Division of Purchases

James MacPherson. Assistant Director of purchases in charge of the Equ...

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R.R. Guthrie. Assistant Director of Purchases in charge of the Textile, Clothing and Equippage Branch, Office of Production Management (OPM)

R.R. Guthrie. Assistant Director of Purchases in charge of the Textile...

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Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in the latter's office in Washington on the occasion of Mrs. Roosevelt's being sworn in as Mayor La Guardia's assistant in the Office of Civilian Defense. Mrs. Roosevelt's title is Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense. The ceremony took place on the morning of September 29

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in the latter'...

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Washington, D.C. Dean William Pickens and James L. Houghteling of the United States Treasury Department. Houghteling is director of the Division of National Organizations

Washington, D.C. Dean William Pickens and James L. Houghteling of the ...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Inspecting the new oversize bus trailer, made almost entirely of non-critical materials, are two of the men who were instrumental in its construction, Joseph B. Eastman (left), director of the Office of Defense Transportation and Frank H. Shepard (right) of the Office of Defense Transportation, Division of Local Transport. This oversize bus, with capacity of 141 persons, may solve the problem of tranpsorting defense workers to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Inspecting the new oversize bus ...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Miss Jane Elizabeth Machmer, twenty-six year-old director

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expect to find the back page. That's because it was printed for the Chinese who turn their pages from left to right. It was one of many pamphlets displayed by Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information (OWI) to show what his organization is doing to overcome Axis propaganda abroad. This pamphlet emphasises to the Chinese that their fliers and our fliers are parts of the same team

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expe...

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Milton Eisenhower, Associate Director, OWI (Office of War Information)

Milton Eisenhower, Associate Director, OWI (Office of War Information)

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Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder and former president and director of the NYA (National Youth Administration) Negro Relations

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethu...

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Axis propaganda. "Mistress of Three Oceans" is the boasting title of this picture layout in this Japanese propaganda magazine which Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War information, displayed on March 6, 1943. Mr. Davis explained how the OWI is fighting this propaganda in neutral countries

Axis propaganda. "Mistress of Three Oceans" is the boasting title of t...

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Axis propaganda. Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, examines Nazi and Japanese propaganda organs which he displayed at a press conference on March 6, 1943, to show material the Axis is distributing in neutral countries and the material with which the OWI is fighting it

Axis propaganda. Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Informatio...

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Axis propaganda. This pamphlet, telling the story of the American airmen appears here in three of the many languages in which it has been translated. These pamphlets are distributed abroad to combat Axis propaganda, Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information (OWI), told newspapermen at his press conference on March 6, 1943

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet, telling the story of the American airm...

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Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of Defense Transportation (left); O.E. Peterson of Chicago, Illinois, secretary, Kiwanis International (center); and Charles S. Donley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, immediate past president, Kiwanis International

Washington, D.C. April 7, 1943. Joseph B. Eastman, director, Office of...

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[Congressman Alexander Pirnie reaching into a container of draft numbers (center) as others look on, including retiring Selective Service Director Lt. General Lewis Blaine Hershey (left) and Deputy Director Col. Daniel O. Omer (right) at the Selective Service Headquarters during the nationwide draft lottery] / MST.

[Congressman Alexander Pirnie reaching into a container of draft numbe...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Nationwide Draft Lottery: Selective Service Headquarters. 9-10a, Center, Rep. Alexander Pirnie (R-NY), Left, Retiring Selective Service Director Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Right,... More

Columbus Tower, San Francisco, California

Columbus Tower, San Francisco, California

Also known as the Sentinel Building, it was completed in 1907. By the early 1970s the building was in a state of mild disrepair. Film director Francis Ford Coppola purchased the building, and renovated it. Titl... More

U.S. Congress legislative status steps / Committee on House Administration, Wayne L. Hays, Chairman ; prepared by House Information Systems Staff, Frank B. Ryan, Director.

U.S. Congress legislative status steps / Committee on House Administra...

Print shows a diagram that delineates "the many paths that a bill may take from the time it is introduced until it becomes law." A total of 159 potential "legislative status steps" through which a bill may pass... More

Statue to William Donovan, director of the C.I.A predecessor agency, and a marker to the C.I.A's fallen at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley, Virginia

Statue to William Donovan, director of the C.I.A predecessor agency, a...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Director's House, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Direct...

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National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Director's House, Lamont & Veterans Way, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, Direct...

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Jacob Tome Institute, Director's Residence, Tome Road, Port Deposit, Cecil County, MD

Jacob Tome Institute, Director's Residence, Tome Road, Port Deposit, C...

Significance: As the residence of the directors of the Tome School for Boys, the house was at the social and management core of school life. Architecturally, it is a fine, formal example of a Georgian Revival ... More

Fort Cronkhite, Anti-Aircraft Battery No. 1, Director Pit, Wolf Ridge, Sausalito, Marin County, CA

Fort Cronkhite, Anti-Aircraft Battery No. 1, Director Pit, Wolf Ridge,...

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[Warrenton, Virginia Dr. Jonathan Letterman, medical director of the Army of the Potomac and staff]

[Warrenton, Virginia Dr. Jonathan Letterman, medical director of the A...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863.

[Frontispiece and title page of Richard Bradley's "The Country Housewife and Lady's Director; frontis illust. panorama of farming scenes]

[Frontispiece and title page of Richard Bradley's "The Country Housewi...

Engraving by Stuart. Illus. in: Rare Book Collection. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring 1981, p. 96. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: England; Farms; Cooke... More

[Scene in the Botanical Gardens with Director of Customs Building, Hamburg, Germany]

[Scene in the Botanical Gardens with Director of Customs Building, Ham...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "16825". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

HINES, WALKER D. DIRECTOR GENERAL, U.S.R.R. ADM., JANUARY 10, 1919. WALKING

HINES, WALKER D. DIRECTOR GENERAL, U.S.R.R. ADM., JANUARY 10, 1919. WA...

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[R.G. Cholmeley-Jones, Director of the War Risk Bureau, eating lunch at his desk]

[R.G. Cholmeley-Jones, Director of the War Risk Bureau, eating lunch a...

Photo shows Richard G. Cholmeley-Jones, director of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, May 1919-April 1921. (Source: D. Richardson, 2009, from Robinson E. Adkins, Medical Care of Veterans. Washington, DC: Govern... More

Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Adams' home II

Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...

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Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Adams' little girl II

Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...

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Louis A. Hill, new Director of the Bureau of Engraving and printing, at his desk

Louis A. Hill, new Director of the Bureau of Engraving and printing, a...

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[Frank Edgar Scobey, Director of the US Mint, holding the Mint's Warren G. Harding Presidential Medal]

[Frank Edgar Scobey, Director of the US Mint, holding the Mint's Warre...

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In recognition of his having conducted the most successful radio show in the U.S. Alfred Stern, director of Washington's first radio show, was presented with this elaborate loop antenna by Dr. J. Harris Rogers, famous inventor. It is estimated that 50,000 persons attended this exhibition

In recognition of his having conducted the most successful radio show ...

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Ambassador Jusserand, from France, left, with Mrs. Jas. K. Hackett, wife of the famous actor, and Mr. Firman Gamier, director of the Odeon Theatre, Paris. Washington, Oct. 30

Ambassador Jusserand, from France, left, with Mrs. Jas. K. Hackett, wi...

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Looking at some of the flower baskets, trays, and lamps made by wounded soldiers at Mr. Alton Hospital, Wash., during the 4th Annual garden party tendered the disabled veterans by the George Baldwin McCoy Unit of the Amer. Women's Legion. Left to rt.: Mrs. Robt. Coe, Mrs. Frank T. Hines, General Hines, Director of the Veteran's Bur. and Mrs. W.J. McCoy

Looking at some of the flower baskets, trays, and lamps made by wounde...

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Katharine Meyer, daughter of Eugene Meyer, managing director of the War Finance Corp., snapped at the Riding and Hunt Club today on "Seewandda" an entry in the coming National Capital Horse Show

Katharine Meyer, daughter of Eugene Meyer, managing director of the Wa...

National Photo Company Collection. In album: Lot 12298, vol. 2, p. 21. No. 39743.

Scientists for Uncle Sam awarded Magellan Gold Medal. Dr. L.J. Briggs, left, Assistant Director and Dr. Paul R. [Heyl?], Chief of the Sound Section of the United States Bureau of Standards, with the first successful experimental model of the earth inductor compass, which they developed for the Army Air Corps and for which they were awarded the Magellan Gold Medal by the American Philosophical Society. It was a model of this same compass that Capt. Charles Lindbergh used on his epochal flight from New York to Paris

Scientists for Uncle Sam awarded Magellan Gold Medal. Dr. L.J. Briggs,...

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Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Adams at desk III

Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...

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Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Adams child II

Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams, first director of the Folger Library. Dr. Ada...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Curtis Edwards works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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At Split-Coin hearing. Testifying before the House Coinage Committee are C.M. Hester, Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department, and Miss Mary O'Reilly, assistant director of the U.S. Mint, as congress propares to consider the plea of several states that they be allowed to issue coins in fractional cents for sales tax purposes. Miss O'Rielly has been with the Mint for 32 years. 8/8/35

At Split-Coin hearing. Testifying before the House Coinage Committee a...

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Sudan. Khartoum. Khartoum Zoo. Major Barker, Director, plays with a young lioness

Sudan. Khartoum. Khartoum Zoo. Major Barker, Director, plays with a yo...

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WISCONSIN GIRL RECEIVES GORGAS AWARD FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 5. MISS HELEN MAE COLLENTINE, A SENIOR STUDENT AT MESSMER HIGH SCHOOL, MILWAUKEE, WI, RECEIVING FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY THE FIRST HENRY L. DOHERTY PRIZE OF$500 IN THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GORGAS ESSAY CONTEST. THE SUBJECT ASSIGNED WAS 'GORGAS CONTROL OF TRANSMISSIBLE AND [...] PREVENTABLE DISEASES.' THOUSANDS OF JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS REPRESENTING HIGH SCHOOLS IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES PARTICIPATED IN THE CONTEST WHICH IS CONDUCTED BY THE GORGAS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE AS PART OF ITS HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM. THE AWARD ALSO INCLUDED $200 FOR MISS COLLENTINE'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: MISS COLLENTINE, MRS. HENRY DOUHERTY; ADMIRAL CARY GRAYSON, DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS; AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

WISCONSIN GIRL RECEIVES GORGAS AWARD FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, WASHING...

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WPA in Ohio Federal Music Project presents Verdi's grand opera "Il trovatore" Cast of 75 : Rudolph Schueller director.

WPA in Ohio Federal Music Project presents Verdi's grand opera "Il tro...

Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of "Il Trovatore." Date stamped on verso: Mar 1 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Tribute paid to George Washington on 150th Anniversary of signing of Constitution. Washington, D.C., Sept. 17. While the rest of the country were conducting appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of 150th anniversary of the Constitution a delegation led by Rep. Sol Bloom, Director of the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, journeyed to Mt. Vernon where they paid tribute to the father of our country. This picture, snapped as the wreath was placed on the tomb, shows left to right: Rt. Reverend James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, who delivered the invocation; Rep. Bloom; General S. Gardner Waller, Virginia Adjutant General who represented the Governor of the state: and Col. Joseph Button, representing the Virginia Society of the Sons of the Revolution. 9/17/37

Tribute paid to George Washington on 150th Anniversary of signing of C...

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Frank Bane, Exe. Director, 2/2/37, Social Security Board

Frank Bane, Exe. Director, 2/2/37, Social Security Board

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Responsible for unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. William L. Austin (left) Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and whose workers are tabulating the returns from the unemployment questionnaires, describes to Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers the working of the special tabulating machine used to count the unemployed noses. Work of counting the unemployed returns was begun in the Capital today. 11/24/37

Responsible for unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Willia...

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Rapid fire questions cause Federal Reserve Chairman to have headache. Washington, D.C., March 23. Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board undertook to answer the Questions fired at him by Walter Trent, Director of the Rocky Mountain Metal Foundation. Trent's questions came so fast that Accles was hard put to answer them. Here he paused to rub his head during the questioning he was put through at the meeting of the Special Silver Committee.

Rapid fire questions cause Federal Reserve Chairman to have headache. ...

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Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Service. Mr. Lababidi and Ibrahim Toukan

Reception by the Director of Programmes, Palestine Broadcasting Servic...

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C.E. Adams, consultant to the director, Priorities Division

C.E. Adams, consultant to the director, Priorities Division

Thomas C. Blaisdell, Assistant Director of the National Resources Planning Board (left); Robert R. Nathan, Assistant Director of Progress Reports, War Production Board (right); and Fred Searles, Consultant on Ordnance, Ammunition Division, U.S. Army(standing). The three-man planning committee which acts in an advisory capacity to Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board

Thomas C. Blaisdell, Assistant Director of the National Resources Plan...

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A.J. Browning, deputy director, Division of Purchases, Office of Production Management (OPM)

A.J. Browning, deputy director, Division of Purchases, Office of Produ...

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William V. Reed, Director, Standard Division, Division of Defense and Housing Coordination

William V. Reed, Director, Standard Division, Division of Defense and ...

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Subregional office, steelworkers organizing committee, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Subregional director Joe Timko (left) listens to local union president Thomas Peasner (right) give the union committee's position on a grievance which is being appealed to the national union

Subregional office, steelworkers organizing committee, Ambridge, Penns...

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Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, OPM (Office of Production Management), and currently (Sept. 2, 1941) lend-lease administrator

Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former director, Priorities Division, O...

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Henry A. Wallace, Chairman, Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and Vice-President of the United States, and Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director, Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and Director of the Priorities Division, Office of Production Management (OPM). Photograph taken at a joint press conference held directly after the first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board on September 2, 1941

Henry A. Wallace, Chairman, Supply Priorities and Allocations Board an...

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Joseph B. Eastman, director, Division of Transportation, Office of Production Management (OPM) and Joseph L. White, executive assistant to Mr. Eastman

Joseph B. Eastman, director, Division of Transportation, Office of Pro...

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Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescence in children, as in adults, is hastened by the encouragement of interest in normal activities. Thus, a nurse's duties in a children's hospital takes on many of the aspects of the nursery school teacher or playground director, as youngsters improve in health

Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescen...

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Joseph B. Eastman, director, Division of Transportation, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Joseph B. Eastman, director, Division of Transportation, Office of Pro...

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Washington, D.C. Two of the members who attended the first meeting of the War Production Board (WPB) held in the conference room of the new Social Security Building were Henry A. Wallace, chairman of the Board of Economic Welfare and William S. Knudsen, director general of the Office of Production Management (OPM)

Washington, D.C. Two of the members who attended the first meeting of ...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, inspects a new fifteen-passenger war workers' coach made from a standard five-passenger sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. Left to right: Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, which made the vehicle; Mr. Eastman; Frank H. Shepard, Special Assistant in the Office of Defense Transportation's Local Transportation Division; Guy A. Richardson, Director of the Local Transportation Division

Transportation. War workers' coach. Joseph B. Eastman, Director of the...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Office of War Inf...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the We...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Director of the Division of Motor Transport, Office of Defense Transportation, displays a still-usable truck tire which has run 146,000 miles. The air pressure in its present condition

Conservation. Truck tires run 146,000 miles. No. 1. John L. Rogers, Di...

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Press conference on meat rationing. J.H. Westing (left), assistant director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, and Leon Bosch, head of Point Control Development show reporters, at press conference held March 20, papier-mache meat cuts to illustrate point values

Press conference on meat rationing. J.H. Westing (left), assistant dir...

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Arden, New York. Mrs. Janet P. Murray, Director of Ellen Marvin and Gaylord White Camps

Arden, New York. Mrs. Janet P. Murray, Director of Ellen Marvin and Ga...

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Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woman shopper and daughter get their first experience in using war ration book two in purchasing processed foods. Harold B. Rowe, director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, indicates the point values of various canned goods

Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woma...

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Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and staff. Standing, left to right: Arthur L. Hawley, assistant to Mr. Wilson; Carroll K. Shaw, executive officer; Ray C. Ellis, director of the Radio Division; T.P. Wright, director, Resources Controll Office, Aircraft Production Board; L.R. Boulware, Office of the Controller of Shipbuilding; M. Joseph Meehan, associate director, Office of Progress Reports; William B. Murphy, director of Facilities Division; William K. Frank, director, General Industrial Equipment Division; A.H. Bunker, director, Aluminum and Magnesium Division; John S. Chaffee, deputy director, Tools Division; R.L. Vaniman, director, Automotive Division; Curtis E. Calder, director general for operations; Ralph J. Cordiner, director general of War Production Scheduling; Captain J.O. Gawne, director, Shipbuilding Division; Francis M. Shields, director, Safety and Technical Equipment Supplies Division; Mordecai Ezekiel, assistant to Mr. Wilson; Fred Searls, Jr., director, Facilities Bureau; James N. Nicely, assistant to Mr. Searls

Charles E. Wilson, executive vice-chairman of the War Production Board...

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Schenectady, New York. Harry J. Linton, director of secondary education

Schenectady, New York. Harry J. Linton, director of secondary educatio...

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Washington, D.C. Enlisted personnel Bolling Field after their performance at the kitchen shower of the Walsh Club for war workers with members of the club and Mrs. Stuart Godfrey, chairman of music for the services. Left to right: Corporal Virgil Fox, noted organist and pianist; Corporal Don Benjamin, director of the show; Mrs. Marion McGregor, in charge of publicity for music for the services; Miss Betty Baum, concert singer; Sergeant Bob Shortmeyer; Miss Hedy Miller, member of the club; Mrs. Stuart

Washington, D.C. Enlisted personnel Bolling Field after their performa...

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Tire recapping. Recapping a worn passenger car tire. Reclaimed camelback rubber is applied after the old tread surface of the tire has been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Tire recapping. Recapping a worn passenger car tire. Reclaimed camelba...

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New York, New York. Mrs. Speer, director of the nursery, directing the children at play at the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East Fifty-ninth Street

New York, New York. Mrs. Speer, director of the nursery, directing the...

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Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, being interviewed by the press after his return from England and the battlefronts of Europe. Left to right: John Corson, Deputy Director in charge of Finance and Administration, and Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nat...

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Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nat...

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Central Nassau Medical Group, Hempstead, Long Island. Medical director's office

Central Nassau Medical Group, Hempstead, Long Island. Medical director...

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[Curtis W. Tarr, director of the Selective Service System, turns the drum containing capsules of draft numbers at the annual draft lottery, Commerce Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.] / TOH.

[Curtis W. Tarr, director of the Selective Service System, turns the d...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 25417, frame 15A. Contact sheet fo... More

Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's grave at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's grave at Congressional Cemetery,...

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