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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 OWI. 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 Esther V. Myers is shown at a receiving machine in the teletype room of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics while Miss Shirley K. Conway dispatches news on an ASR machine

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

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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

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Exactly what happens to each of the millions of Social Security Account applicants during each working shift is recorded daily. At any minute of the day or night it is possible to locate any application through the records maintained in the production and control section of the Social Security Board Records Office. This is the nerve center of the "greatest bookkeeping job in the world". The photograph above shows workers in the records office running off daily production report, which accurately pictures details of the ebb and flow of each of the several operations necessary to set up an individual ledger account for each worker and the various indexes prepares to insure acccuracy and ready reference.

Exactly what happens to each of the millions of Social Security Accoun...

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Barker's nerve & bone liniment - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Barker's nerve & bone liniment - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

Print shows animals in a pastoral setting. 12297 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1883 by Barker, Moore & Mein, wholesale druggists, Phila., Pa.

Office of War Information News Bureau. Disseminating war news is the primary task of the News Bureau of the OWI. This is the teletype room of OWI--the nerve center of the world news of the war. These instruments connect OWI offices all over the world

Office of War Information News Bureau. Disseminating war news is the p...

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Nerve. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, N. Y

Nerve. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, N. Y

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Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of Civilian Defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve...

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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 Harriette Thorne is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the Bureau of Publications and Graphics

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of civilian defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve...

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