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Mr. Justin Stewart. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Justin Stewart. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

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J. Charles Laue, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

J. Charles Laue, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pr...

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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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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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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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Laura R. Daly, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Laura R. Daly, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pric...

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Philip Weltner, Assistant Director, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Philip Weltner, Assistant Director, Office of Price Administration (OP...

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Rolf Nugent, associate price executive, Auto and Truck Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Rolf Nugent, associate price executive, Auto and Truck Section, Office...

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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...

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Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer woman investigator checking for Office of Price Administration's (OPA) enforcement agency prices of lingerie and hosiery

Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer...

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Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program for price control (first meeting), December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program...

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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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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnesota, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is secretary of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnes...

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Mr. Thomas Fansler. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Thomas Fansler. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

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John F. Corwin, Acting Chief, Plastics Unit, Chemical Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

John F. Corwin, Acting Chief, Plastics Unit, Chemical Section, Office ...

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Dr. John Kenneth Gailbraith, assistant administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply, Office of Emergency Management. Dr. Galbraith is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University

Dr. John Kenneth Gailbraith, assistant administrator, Office of Price ...

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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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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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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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Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcement agency in Philadelphia, one of three cities selected in a test drive to discover violations of rationing and ceiling prices, in a department store checking prices of women's apparel. All investigators were required to fill out reports, regardless whether violations were uncovered or not. A number of complaints against law violations in three test cities resulted from the surprise investigation

Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (O...

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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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Edgar S. Kaufmann, Consultant on Distribution Problems for the Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Edgar S. Kaufmann, Consultant on Distribution Problems for the Office ...

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May Thompson Evans, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

May Thompson Evans, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

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Mrs. Bertha Adams Mulvey. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mrs. Bertha Adams Mulvey. 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...

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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...

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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...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

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

The official table of consumer point values, supplied to retailers by the OPA (Office of Price Administration), gives the answers. It can be obtained from the local post office. The law requires all retailers to post this table where everyone can see it easily

The official table of consumer point values, supplied to retailers by ...

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Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for meat with red stamps. The "butcher" is William Nielander, Office of Price Administration (OPA) rationing executive

Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for me...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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And, in the end, all points must flow back to the OPA (Office of Price Administration) to be accounted for. Every buyer of foods under this program must give points for them. And in every case the primary distributor--such as the slaughterer, cheese or butter manufacturer, fish canner, refiner of edible fats or oils and many processors--must give the Office of Price Administration an account of sales and turn over points received

And, in the end, all points must flow back to the OPA (Office of Price...

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

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

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

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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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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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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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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign displayed in "Shapiro's Bargain Stand," one of New York's East Side marketplaces, shows that the Shapiros, like hundreds of others in the market, are cooperating with the Office of Price Administration in posting prices where their customers can see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign di...

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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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Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consumer Interest Council, a group of Negro housewives at Newport News, making a report to the members of the Special Services Section of the Office of Price Administration, concerning point rationing. Left to right: Mrs. M. Barr, Miss A. Wilson, Miss Freedman, Mrs. Ethel Stephens, Miss Warrick, and Miss F. Williams

Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consu...

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Meat rationing preview. Paul M. O'Leary, Office of Price Administration (OPA) deputy administrator for rationing, looks perplexed at the problems of cutting a wholesale carcass. Mrs. Philip Crowlie looks on in amusement

Meat rationing preview. Paul M. O'Leary, Office of Price Administratio...

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

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...

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

John E. Young, Industrial Specialist, Price Division, Fuel Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

John E. Young, Industrial Specialist, Price Division, Fuel Section, Of...

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Eugene Szepesi, Principal, Business Specialist and Consultant, Textiles, Leather and Apparel Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Eugene Szepesi, Principal, Business Specialist and Consultant, Textile...

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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 ...

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Loretta Vrooman, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Loretta Vrooman, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pr...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible," a copy of the General Maximum Price Regulations written painstakingly in Mandarin, one of the chief languages of China, Mrs. Joanne A. Tee, price specialist of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is explaining the necessity for posting ceiling prices to Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown. Like the people of their native land, whose fighting spirit has earned the admiration of all freedom-loving nations, the Chinese-American storekeepers are fighting the Axis by cooperating with the government in the battle against inflation

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible,...

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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 food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program for price control (first meeting), December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer who checks and posts 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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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. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for meat with red stamps. The "butcher" is William Nielander, Office of Price Administration (OPA) rationing executive

Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for me...

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Meat rationing preview. "Price list" in terms of points but good to look at. Office of Price Administration (OPA) official shows choice cuts at meat rationing trial shopping

Meat rationing preview. "Price list" in terms of points but good to lo...

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

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Marian Squire, of Yampa, Colorado, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is treasurer of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Marian Squire, of Yampa, Colorado,...

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Office of Price Administration Regional Administrators with Mr. Henderson. Regional Administrators of the Office of Price Administration with Leon Henderson (seated), OPA Administrator, just prior to his retirement from office. Shown standing are, left to right: Harry F. Camp, San Francisco; John C. Weigel, Chicago; Sylvan L. Joseph, New York; Maxwell McCullough, Dallas; Kenneth B. Backman, Boston; Oscar R. Strauss, Atlanta; Birkett L. Williams, Cleveland; Clem E. Collins, Denver; Rupert Emerson, Territories and Possessions

Office of Price Administration Regional Administrators with Mr. Hender...

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Sunie Steele, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Sunie Steele, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price...

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Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Price Administration)

Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Pric...

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Mr. Oregon B. Helfrich, Chemical, Bolvent Unit, Price Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Oregon B. Helfrich, Chemical, Bolvent Unit, Price Division, Office...

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Miss Gladys Baker. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Gladys Baker. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of ...

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Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Price Administration)

Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Pric...

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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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Sugar rationing. Even the wife of the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) administrator has to sign up for her sugar quota. Mrs. Leon Henderson enacts the role millions of Americans will go through from May 4th through May 7th, when nationwide sugar rationing goes into effect. She's assisted here by Dr. Elmer S. Newton, Washington, D.C., superintendent of Western High School

Sugar rationing. Even the wife of the Office of Price Administration's...

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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...

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Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Admini...

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Meeting between officials of the OPM, Army, Navy and representatives of the automobile industry and the automobile unions, to discuss the problems of conversion in automobile plants. Left to right: R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO (United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations) president; Sidney Hillman, associate general, OPM (Office of Personnel Management); Leon Henderson, director, OPA (Office of Price Administration); Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Company; Edsel Ford; William S. Knudsen, direcotr general, OPM; C.E. Wilson, president, General Motors

Meeting between officials of the OPM, Army, Navy and representatives o...

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Meat rationing preview. Paul M. O'Leary, Office of Price Administration (OPA) deputy administrator for rationing, looks perplexed at the problems of cutting a wholesale carcass. Mrs. Philip Crowlie looks on in amusement

Meat rationing preview. Paul M. O'Leary, Office of Price Administratio...

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Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for meat with red stamps. The "butcher" is William Nielander, Office of Price Administration (OPA) rationing executive

Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for me...

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

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbor, New York, a newswriter in the petroleum research section of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), who is chairman of publicity of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbo...

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Mr. Eugene R. Guinter. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Eugene R. Guinter. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Mr. Eugene R. Guinter. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Eugene R. Guinter. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office...

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

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...

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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...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA) volunteer headquarters in Nyack

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

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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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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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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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First war ration book. Facsimile of war ration book no. 1 to be used to ration sugar, issued today by the Office of Price Administration (OPA). Each stamp will be used to purchase a quantity of sugar still to be determined. When the sugar ration plan goes into effect, a specific stamp will be designed for use each week. Books under the direction of local rationing boards. Printing of the books will start next week

First war ration book. Facsimile of war ration book no. 1 to be used t...

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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...

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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 ...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnesota, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is secretary of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnes...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Roger Smith. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

Meat rationing preview. "Price list" in terms of points but good to look at. Office of Price Administration (OPA) official shows choice cuts at meat rationing trial shopping

Meat rationing preview. "Price list" in terms of points but good to lo...

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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. Right: Jean Holmes, clerical assistant, Consumer Division, OPA. Former association: U.S. Department of Agriculture

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

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

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, Office for Price Adm...

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Sugar rationing. What every householder will know! Mrs. Leon Henderson, wife of the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) head, goes through the routine of registering for her sugar rationing book, assisted by Dr. Elmer S. Newton, superintendent of Western High School, Washington D.C. Nationwide registration will be held from May 4th through May 7th. That's Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the vice-president, at left

Sugar rationing. What every householder will know! Mrs. Leon Henderson...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA) volunteer headquarters in Nyack

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

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

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...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

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...

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Miss Mary Hawes. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Mary Hawes. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pr...

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Mr. William H. Conley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. William H. Conley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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And, in the end, all points must flow back to the OPA (Office of Price Administration) to be accounted for. Every buyer of foods under this program must give points for them. And in every case the primary distributor--such as the slaughterer, cheese or butter manufacturer, fish canner, refiner of edible fats or oils and many processors--must give the Office of Price Administration an account of sales and turn over points received

And, in the end, all points must flow back to the OPA (Office of Price...

Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Section, Office of Price Administration

Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Se...

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

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...

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

Miss. Dorothy I. Cline. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss. Dorothy I. Cline. Field representative, Consumer Division, Offic...

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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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The First lot of the new "Victory" bicycles to reach Washington receiving the seal of approval from Leon Henderson, administrator of the Office of Price Administration. Miss Betty Barrett, an OPM stenographer, is in the parcel basket. Stratetic i.e. Strategic war materials were eliminated in the manufacture of the bicycle

The First lot of the new "Victory" bicycles to reach Washington receiv...

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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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