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Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are infinitesimal in the Social Security Board Records Office and great care is excercised to guard against human error. After the employee master card has been prepared, and before it is sent on to reproduce an acturial card, indexes, registers and a individual ledger account. It goes to a review section. Here the original application and the master card are brought together and checked for error. Checking is done by a team of two workers, and the few errors which have been made are corrected. Reviews of errors are reduced to a minute part of one perscent. The photograph above shows a part of the review section at work

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are in...

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There is nothing "hit or miss" about the handling of account applications in the Social Security Board Records Office. To facilitate keeping a constant check on each, applications are grouped in blocks of 1,000, numbered in sequence, before they are started through the various operations necessary to set up an individual ledger account for every worker. The photograph above shows workers in the Records Office assembling applications in to blocks of 1,000.

There is nothing "hit or miss" about the handling of account applicati...

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Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The [...]ing system was adopted as a "foolproof" methods of keeping track of names, whether or not misspelled by their owners in subsequent correspondence. The system also is of great value in simplifying many of the mechanical operations necessary to set up and maintain individual wage record accounts for the millions or workers covered by the Social Security Act. the photograph [above shows](?) workers in the Records Office coding names of [applicants]

Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some c...

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Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in several ways in the Social Security Board Records Office. The photograph above shows a Records Office worker at a machine which is listing in numerical sequence on a loose leaf ledger page a record of account numbers issued, to whom they were issued and other identifying data for future reference as one of the several means employed to make certain individual wage record accounts are correctly set up to be maintained

Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in s...

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Baltimore, Md. For every social security account number issued an "employee master card" is made in the Social Security board records office. Testifying data, given on the application blank, form ss-5 is transferred to this master card in the form of up ended quadrangular holes, punched by key punch machines, which have a keyboard like a typewriter. Each key struck by an operator causes a hole to be punched in the card. The position of a hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. The position of the hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. From this master card is made an actuarial card, to be used later for statistical purposes. The master card also is used in other machines which sort them numerically, according to account numbers, alphabetically according to the name code, translate the holes into numbers and letters, and print the data on individual ledger sheets, indexes, registry of accounts and other uses. The photograph above shows a records office worker punching master cards on a key punch machine

Baltimore, Md. For every social security account number issued an "emp...

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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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Baltimore, Maryland. The "work" cards, by means of which constant check is kept on what is being done with each block of Social Security Account Applications, are punched in the Production and Control Section. Each hole in each "work" or peration, card represents a letter or a numeral. When translated, these give necessary pertinent data for the daily permenent work records of the Social Security Board Records Office in Baltimore. The photograph above shows a worker in the Production and Control Section of the Records Office punching "work", or operation cards

Baltimore, Maryland. The "work" cards, by means of which constant chec...

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The millions of applications for social security account numbers are handled in orderly manner in the Social Security Board Records Office. After the hour and date, and the number of each application has been recorded, as it is received, applications are sent to 'holding files.' Here they are held until they have been grouped into blocks of 1,000 with numbers running in sequence--for example, from 001-01-1000 to 001-01-1999. The photograph above shows workers in the Baltimore Records Office at work on the 'holding files'

The millions of applications for social security account numbers are h...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

There is nothing "hit or miss" about the handling of account applications in the Social Security Board Records Office. To facilitate keeping a constant check on each, applications are grouped in blocks of 1,000, numbered in sequence, before they are started through the various operations necessary to set up an individual ledger account for every worker. The photograph above shows workers in the Records Office assembling applications in to blocks of 1,000

There is nothing "hit or miss" about the handling of account applicati...

A black and white photo of a group of men sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date ... More

Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in several ways in the Social Security Board Records Office. The photograph above shows a Records Office worker at a machine which is listing in numerical sequence on a loose leaf ledger page a record of account numbers issued, to whom they were issued and other identifying data for future reference as one of the several means employed to make certain individual wage record accounts are correctly set up to be maintained

Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in s...

A black and white photo of a woman working at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negat... More

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are infinitesimal in the Social Security Board Records Office and great care is excercised to guard against human error. After the employee master card has been prepared, and before it is sent on to reproduce an acturial card, indexes, registers and a individual ledger account. It goes to a review section. Here the original application and the master card are brought together and checked for error. Checking is done by a team of two workers, and the few errors which have been made are corrected. Reviews of errors are reduced to a minute part of one perscent. The photograph above shows a part of the review section at work

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are in...

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Baltimore, MD. For every Social Security Account Number issued an "emploee master card" is made in the Social Security Board Records Office. Identifying data, given on the application blank , Form SC-5[?], is transferred to this master card in the form of up-ended quadrangular holes, punched by key punch machines, which have a key card like a typewriter. Each key struck by an operator causes a [...] to be punched into the card. The position of a hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. From this master card is made an acturial card, to be used later in statistical purposes. The master card also is used in other machines which sort them numerically, according to account numbers alphabetically according to the name code, translate the holes into numbers and letters, and print the data on individual ledger sheets, indexes, registry of accounts, and other uses. It is kept as a permanent record. The photograph above shows at work a part of the key machine section, where master cards are punched.

Baltimore, MD. For every Social Security Account Number issued an "emp...

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Baltimore, MD. To facilitate handling of the individual master card, it is necessary that the identifying information represented by the holes which have ben punched in the card, shall be easily read by the human eye. From the gang punch machine, therefore the master card is taken to an interpreting machine. The interpreting machine translates the holes back into letters and figures and prints the name of the holder of the account number and some other identifying data across the top of the master card going through the interpreting machine in the Social Security Board Records Office

Baltimore, MD. To facilitate handling of the individual master card, i...

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Baltimore, Md. For every social security account number issued an "employee master card" is made in the Social Security Board Records Office. Testifying data, given on the application blank, form ss-5 is transferred to this master card in the form of up ended quadrangular holes, punched by key punch machines, which have a keyboard like a typewriter. Each key struck by an operator causes a hole to be punched in the card. The position of a hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. The position of the hole determines the letter or number other machines will reproduce from the master card. From this master card is made an actuarial card, to be used later for statistical purposes. The master card also is used in other machines which sort them numerically, according to account numbers, alphabetically according to the name code, translate the holes into numbers and letters, and print the data on individual ledger sheets, indexes, registry of accounts and other uses. The photograph above shows a records office worker punching master cards on a key punch machine

Baltimore, Md. For every social security account number issued an "emp...

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Baltimore, MD. Statistical data of great value in the future will accumulate in the files of the Social Security Board Records Office. To provide easy means of developing and studying this information, without disturbing the permanent records, acturial cards are reproduced from the original employee master cards. The master card is a [...] salmon pink. The acturial card is a bright green. They are of different colors so they will not be mixed together inadvertently. The photograph above shows a reproducing machine making acturial cards from master cards. The punched master card is placed in one compartment. A blank acturial card is placed in another. When the master card has been automatically carried to the proper position it stops, momentarilly. Meanwhile the blank acturial card is carried to another place in the machine. Electrical impulses cause the machine to punch on the acturial card the same holes, in the same position, as on the master card. The two cards are held in place while the part of the machine holding the acturial card telegraphs back to the part holding the master card to see that the punches in each are identical. Then the cards are released, one is in one pile and the other in another. The whole operation requires a small fraction of a minute

Baltimore, MD. Statistical data of great value in the future will accu...

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Baltimore, Md. For each block of 1,000 social security account applications 'work' cards are prepared. One work card is made for each operation incident to seeting up individual accounts and necessary indexes. The photograph above shows a worker in the Social Security Board Records Office at work at the 'visible control' rack. Each card in this rack represents an operation completed on one block[?] of applications. By glancing at each compartment in the rack, the number of operations completed can be estimated at once

Baltimore, Md. For each block of 1,000 social security account applica...

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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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Baltimore, Md. The 'work' cards, by means of which constant check is kept on what is being done with each block of social security account applications, are punched in the Production and Control Section. Each hole in each 'work' or operation card represents a letter or a numeral. When translated, these give necessary pertinent data for the daily and permanent work records of the Social Security Board Records Office in Baltimore, Maryland. The photograph above shows a worker in the Production and Control Section of the Records Office punching 'work' on operation cards

Baltimore, Md. The 'work' cards, by means of which constant check is k...

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Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change the spelling of their names, from time to time. To forestall the difficulties which would ensue when Baer subsequently spelled his name Bear, the Social Security Board Records Office has set up several varieties of indexes for reference and to insure accuracy. One of these is the alphabetic code index. This is printed on flexible strips, each just wide enough for one line of type. They are printed automatically from the employee master card. The strips are in partially perforated rolls when they first are printed, as shown in the above photograph taken in the Records Office. The perforations allow strips to be separated at any point so that, for example, Abraham Abel's name may be inserted in proper alphabetic sequence between Aaron Abel and Adam Abel

Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change...

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Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are infinitesimal in the Social Security Board Records Office and great care is excercised to guard against human error. After the employee master card has been prepared, and before it is sent on to reproduce an acturial card, indexes, registers and a individual ledger account. It goes to a review section. Here the original application and the master card are brought together and checked for error. Checking is done by a team of two workers, and the few errors which have been made are corrected. Reviews of errors are reduced to a minute part of one perscent. The photograph above shows a part of the review section at work

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are in...

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Baltimore, Maryland. The "work" cards, by means of which constant check is kept on what is being done with each block of Social Security Account Applications, are punched in the Production and Control Section. Each hole in each "work" or peration, card represents a letter or a numeral. When translated, these give necessary pertinent data for the daily permenent work records of the Social Security Board Records Office in Baltimore. The photograph above shows a worker in the Production and Control Section of the Records Office punching "work", or operation cards

Baltimore, Maryland. The "work" cards, by means of which constant chec...

A woman sitting at a table working on a typewriter, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negativ... More

Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The ...ing system was adopted as a "foolproof" methods of keeping track of names, whether or not misspelled by their owners in subsequent correspondence. The system also is of great value in simplifying many of the mechanical operations necessary to set up and maintain individual wage record accounts for the millions or workers covered by the Social Security Act. the photograph above shows(?) workers in the Records Office coding names of applicants

Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some c...

A black and white photo of a group of people working at desks, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General informatio... More

Baltimore, Md. The 'work' cards, by means of which constant check is kept on what is being done with each block of social security account applications, are punched in the Production and Control Section. Each hole in each 'work' or operation card represents a letter or a numeral. When translated, these give necessary pertinent data for the daily and permanent work records of the Social Security Board Records Office in Baltimore, Maryland. The photograph above shows a worker in the Production and Control Section of the Records Office punching 'work' on operation cards

Baltimore, Md. The 'work' cards, by means of which constant check is k...

A woman sitting at a table working on a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives ... More

The millions of applications for social security account numbers are handled in orderly manner in the Social Security Board Records Office. After the hour and date, and the number of each application has been recorded, as it is received, applications are sent to 'holding files.' Here they are held until they have been grouped into blocks of 1,000 with numbers running in sequence--for example, from 001-01-1000 to 001-01-1999. The photograph above shows workers in the Baltimore Records Office at work on the 'holding files'

The millions of applications for social security account numbers are h...

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