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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendorger automatic offset presses are the largest of the types of offset presses in the WPB's duplicating department. These machines are in operation twenty-four hours a day and turn out 5,000 prints an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendo...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Three automatic typewriters are used to turn out the many form letters which the WPB operations necessitate. These typewriters multiply production, reduce typing time and costs

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Three automat...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph ser...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription automatic typewriter unit for the WPB correspondence. These machines in operation are some of the twenty dictator transcribing machines. This unit turns out almost 4,000 letters weekly

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Here are a few of the twelve automatic mimeographs in the WPB's duplicating section. Each of these machines runs twenty-four hours a day and turns out 6,000 copies in an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Here are a fe...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These two graphotype machines cut metal address plates in the addressing department of the WPB

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These two gra...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Girls operating a card punching machine for the machine tools section of the WPB. The cards show tools on order, delivery date promised, name of purchaser, and other information concerning the progress of machine tool production

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Girls operati...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPA). Operators using vari-typers for making mimeograph stencils for the WPB's duplicating department. The W PB has six of these machines

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPA). Operators usi...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). The classroom of the WPB training pool. Here stenographers and typists are made familiar with agency organization, procedures, routing and priorities, etc.

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). The classroom...

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Olivetti a glimpse of tomorrow.

Olivetti a glimpse of tomorrow.

Poster shows an Olivetti typwriter with background of two eyes in the sky.

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering machine in the bindery room of the printing and duplicating section. This twenty-thousand dollar machine binds twenty pages at a time and turns out 3,000 bound sets an hour. It works twenty-four hours a day for the WPB

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering m...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Check-signing machines used by the WPB for signing preference ratings to validate priorities documents. The small machine at the left is used more frequently than the larger older models at the right

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Check-signing...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These two graphotype machines cut metal address plates in the addressing department of the WPB

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These two gra...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Approximately 8,000 envelopes an hour are addressed on these addressograph machines, a part of the WPB's office equipment

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Approximately...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering machine in the bindery room of the printing and duplicating section. This twenty-thousand dollar machine binds twenty pages at a time and turns out 3,000 bound sets an hour. It works twenty-four hours a day for the WPB

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering m...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription automatic typewriter unit for the WPB correspondence. These machines in operation are some of the twenty dictator transcribing machines. This unit turns out almost 4,000 letters weekly

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Transcription...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Drafting room where charts, diagrams, exhibits, graphs and other pictorial reports are prepared for the WPB. This department creates many vivid visualizations of statistical data such as ships being built, steel needed and production comparisons

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Drafting room...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Three automatic typewriters are used to turn out the many form letters which the WPB operations necessitate. These typewriters multiply production, reduce typing time and costs

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Three automat...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Some of the twenty-four form-writing machines used by the WPB to write control cards (PD-1A) for applicants for preference ratings

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Some of the t...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Offset duplicating room in the WPB's duplicating and printing section. All the machines, save one, are multiliths; one is a Davidson duplicator. Every machine is in operation twenty-four hours a day and turns out 5,000 prints an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Offset duplic...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph ser...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendorger automatic offset presses are the largest of the types of offset presses in the WPB's duplicating department. These machines are in operation twenty-four hours a day and turn out 5,000 prints an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendo...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Check-signing machines used by the WPB for signing preference ratings to validate priorities documents. The small machine at the left is used more frequently than the larger older models at the right

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Check-signing...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Some of the twenty-four form-writing machines used by the WPB to write control cards (PD-1A) for applicants for preference ratings

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Some of the t...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPA). Operators using vari-typers for making mimeograph stencils for the WPB's duplicating department. The W PB has six of these machines

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPA). Operators usi...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More