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Price control. Auto repairs. Automobile repairing is one of the services controlled by Office of Price Administration (OPA) price ceilings because an actual commodity is involved

Price control. Auto repairs. Automobile repairing is one of the servic...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers, including a woman, hold nightly hearings for violators of the pleasure driving regulations

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers, including a woman, hold ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; chief economist, Consumers Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for ...

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Mrs. Beryl Smith Gridley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mrs. Beryl Smith Gridley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Off...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): d...

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Left: Loda Mae Davis, assistant to the Chief, Consumer Contacts Section, Consumer Division, Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: instructor in Consumer Problems, San Mateo Junior College; author, lecturer.

Left: Loda Mae Davis, assistant to the Chief, Consumer Contacts Sectio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relation Section of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relat...

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Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. R...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Meat rationing preview. Office of Price Administration (OPA) meat rationing executives who acted as butchers at demonstration for the press sharpen up the tools of the trade in anticipation. William Nielander, Leon Bosch, and Howard Westing with meat-cutting tools

Meat rationing preview. Office of Price Administration (OPA) meat rati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miss Edith L. Christenson. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Edith L. Christenson. Field representative, Consumer Division, Of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"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...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. John W. Edelman. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. John W. Edelman. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office o...

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Mr. Ervin G. Stier, Automobile Section, Price Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Ervin G. Stier, Automobile Section, Price Division, Office of Pric...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Karl Borders, Chief, Rent Section, Price Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Karl Borders, Chief, Rent Section, Price Division, Office of Price Adm...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Margaret H. Collins. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Margaret H. Collins. Field representative, Consumer Division, Off...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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

A group of men standing around a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing around a table. Office of War Information Phot...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer;... More

Miss Helen Gregory. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Helen Gregory. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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

Sugar rationing. The coupons with which you and your neighbors purchase sugar are pasted onto a war ration stamp card by your grocer, who turns the filled card in to the Office of Price Administration (OPA) before his sugar stock can be replenished

Sugar rationing. The coupons with which you and your neighbors purchas...

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

Meat rationing preview. Washington correspondents and their wives try out point shopping for meat with Office of Price Administration (OPA) rationing executives behind the counter

Meat rationing preview. Washington correspondents and their wives try ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oliver Peterson. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Oliver Peterson. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pr...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Left: Helen Barnard, research assistant, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Right: Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relation Section of the Consumer Division, OPA

Left: Helen Barnard, research assistant, Consumer Division, Office of ...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers hold nightly hearing for offenders in the pleasure driving regulations. Policemen, accompanied by OPA investigators, stop the drivers and question them. If there is any question about their reason for driving, they are asked to appear at a hearing that same night or any time in the next three days. This man is furious because his gas ration book has been taken away from him when he was caught driving to a baseball game

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers hold nightly hearing for ...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frances Williams. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Frances Williams. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miss Genoeffa Mizzardini. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Genoeffa Mizzardini. Field representative, Consumer Division, Off...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Karl Borders, Chief, Rent Section, Price Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Karl Borders, Chief, Rent Section, Price Division, Office of Price Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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

Meat rationing preview. Office of Price Administration (OPA) food rationing officials answer reporters' questions on new meats-fats point values at press conference

Meat rationing preview. Office of Price Administration (OPA) food rati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) with Leon Henderson, Administrator, in Washington, D.C. just prior to Mr. Henderson's retirement from office. Seated, left to right, J.K. Galbraith, Mr. Henderson, John E. Hamm, David Ginsburg. Standing, left to right, Dexter M. Keezer, Paul M. O'Leary, Paul A. Porter, Edward N. Hay, Robert W. Horton

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings for offenders of the pleasure driving regulations. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The man being sworn in has been stopped by policemen, accompanied by an OPA investigator. There was some question as to his reasons for driving, and he was asked to appear at hearing between eight p.m. and one a.m. within the next three days. Penalties range from depriving drivers of gas ration books to warnings

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings fo...

Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More

John E. Hamm. Deputy Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

John E. Hamm. Deputy Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OP...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shining up an administrator. Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson gets a shine from one of the first businessmen in the country to comply with the new maximum price regulations. Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, posted his ceiling prices on June 23, 1942, eight days in advance of the effective date for ceilings on consumer services

Shining up an administrator. Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon...

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Miss Harriet Elliot, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliot, associate administrator of the Office of Price Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joseph L. Weiner. Assistant Administrator in Charge of Civilian Allocation of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

Joseph L. Weiner. Assistant Administrator in Charge of Civilian Alloca...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown, is making a sign in Chinese to show the ceiling prices for various articles sold in the store, according to the regulations of the Office of Price Administration (OPA). America's Chinese population is giving its full cooperation to the government in the battle against inflation and against the Axis

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Lee Bow, manager of a lar...

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Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA); Sylvan Joseph, Regional Price Director OPA; A. Antolini, Associate Regional Price Administrator

Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United ... More

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Greek-speaking customers of Spiros Margrite are fully acquainted with the ceiling prices in Margarite's grocery store, for everything is carefully listed on this large sign. By cooperating with the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) fight against inflation, Mr. Margarite is helping to destroy the forces which have banished freedom from his native land and threatened the freedom of his adopted country

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Greek-speaking customers ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Meat rationing preview. Harold Rowe, Office of Price Administration (OPA) food rationing chief, sells meat to girl reporter at shopping preview of new program

Meat rationing preview. Harold Rowe, Office of Price Administration (O...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George W. Doffing, Price Executive, Fuel Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

George W. Doffing, Price Executive, Fuel Section, Office of Price Admi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Price control. Anti-inflation window display. Well designed because it is easily read, this poster illustrates the correct method for displaying ceiling price items on the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) cost-of-living commodity list, established for all goods essential to the daily requirements of the average family. These lists must clearly identify each item, stating size or quantity and ceiling price

Price control. Anti-inflation window display. Well designed because it...

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OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers hold nightly hearings for offenders in the pleasure driving regulations. Policemen, accompanied by OPA investigators, stop the drivers, question them. If there is any question about their reason for driving, they are asked to appear at a hearing that same night or any time in the next three days. This man is furious because his gas ration book was taken away when he was caught driving to a baseball game

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers hold nightly hearings for...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dr. Donald H. Wallace. Head Economic Analyst, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

Dr. Donald H. Wallace. Head Economic Analyst, Office of Price Administ...

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Clarence W. Farrier, Assistant Director, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Clarence W. Farrier, Assistant Director, Office of Price Administratio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Samuel Jacobs. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Samuel Jacobs. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Office of Price Administration Regional Administrators. Regular meeting of OPA Regional Administrators in Washington, D.C., October 14th and 15th, 1942. Standing, left to right: Maxwell McCullough, Dallas, Texas; Clem W. Collins, Denver, Colorado; Harry F. Camp, San Francisco, California; Birkett Williams, Cleveland, Ohio; Oscar Strauss, Atlanta, Georgia. Seated, left to right: John C. Weigel, Chicago, Illinois; Sylvan Joseph, New York, New York; John E. Hamm, Senior Deputy Administrator, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth B. Backman, Boston, Massachusetts

Office of Price Administration Regional Administrators. Regular meetin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings for offenders of the pleasure driving regulations. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The man being sworn in has been stopped by policeman, accompanied by an OPA investigator. There was some question as to his reasons for driving, and he was asked to appear at hearing between eight p.m. and one a.m. within the next three days. Penalties range from depriving drivers of gas ration books to warnings

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings fo...

Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More

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