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Seligman, Arizona. Teletype operator in the telegraph office of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The time here changes from Mountain to Pacific time

Seligman, Arizona. Teletype operator in the telegraph office of the At...

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In the teletype room, where weather data and other information is constantly being received. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C.

In the teletype room, where weather data and other information is cons...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bureau. Weather observational reports are received by teletype system from all parts of the country at a forecast center for plotting on manuscript sectional maps. Mr. Jean Gallene examining a report that has just been received

Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bu...

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One of the tickers in the teletype room. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C.

One of the tickers in the teletype room. Municipal airport, Washington...

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Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists are sent by teletype from the main yard office to yardmasters, tower men, and other offices at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists are sent by teletype from the main yar...

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Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill.

Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and...

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Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spread important messages during air raids. Individual telephone calls to the various defense centers are unnecessary, since the teletype will present the information on paper to all centers simultaneously

Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spr...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bureau. Transmission of weather data by teletype to military and civilian war centers

Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bu...

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Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Pretty as her picture is this young woman in the trim uniform that enlisted U.S. Navy WAVES will wear this winter. The smartly styled, comfortable uniforms are in the traditional "Navy blue" with a soft rolled brim hat. Women between the ages twenty and thirty-six with a high school education or its business school equivalent are eligible, providing they meet physical and aptitude requirements. After training, they will receive rating and pay commensurate with their experience and ability. The pay, incidentally, will be exactly the same as that for men in the same rating, plus allowances. The Navy particularly desires women trained as general clerks, secretaries, stenographers, duplicating machine operators, typists, file clerks, bookkeepers, warehouse clerks, stock clerks, radio operators, teletype operators, simplex and multiplex operators. Some, too, will be trained as aviation machinists mates, gunner's mates and for torpedo maintenance

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Pretty as her picture ...

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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI

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

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Sending the weather data down thru the compressed air tube from the teletype room. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

Sending the weather data down thru the compressed air tube from the te...

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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. The Civil Aeronautics Communication station where observations and weather forecasts from all sections of the country are received and transmitted over land line teletype circuits

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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Kansas City, Missouri. E. A. Schenck, teletype operator, looking up one of the files in the record room of the freight depot

Kansas City, Missouri. E. A. Schenck, teletype operator, looking up on...

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Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump offices at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump offi...

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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Weather forecast being prepared and transmitted over teletype for the Washington forecast district

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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Weather data coming in on the teletype in the teletype room. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

Weather data coming in on the teletype in the teletype room. Washingto...

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Weather data coming in on the teletype in the teletype room. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

Weather data coming in on the teletype in the teletype room. Washingto...

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

Decoding Chief at the State Dept. Washington, D.C., July 31. David Salmon, Chief of the Division of Communications and Records at the State Department is kept very busy decoding all the messages for the president that are coming thru the State Dept. from the China Japan hostilities. The messages are coming thru a battery of telegraphed teletype machines in State Dept., which are on twenty-four hour shift, 7/31/37

Decoding Chief at the State Dept. Washington, D.C., July 31. David Sal...

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Army demonstration of new telephone and teletype systems. Washington, D.C., Feb. 25. Utilizing two recent developments in electrical communication. the Army today demonstrated its ability to communicate instantaneously between its Washington Headquarters and its various units in different parts of the country. the test consisted of a long distance telephone conference call over circuits normally employed for commercial telephone service. The hookup interconnected general staff officers in Washington with commanders of the Nine-Corp areas in their respective headquarters at New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Columbus, Omaha, San Antonio, and San Francisco. Left to right: Col. Robert Eichelberger, Sec. To the General Staff; Chief of Staff General Malin Craig; and the Chief Signal Officer General J.O. Mauborgne, 2/25/38

Army demonstration of new telephone and teletype systems. Washington, ...

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At the control board of the teletype room. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C.

At the control board of the teletype room. Municipal airport, Washingt...

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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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Chicago, Illinois. Teletype machines connect the reservation bureau of the Union Station with the companies' offices in various parts of the country

Chicago, Illinois. Teletype machines connect the reservation bureau of...

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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Weather forecast being prepared and transmitted over teletype for the Washington forecast district

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the teletype room of the OWI. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Esther V. Myers is shown at a receiving machine in the teletype room of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics while Miss Shirley K. Conway dispatches news on an ASR machine

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

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

Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spread important messages during air raids. Individual telephone calls to the various defense centers are unnecessary, since the teletype will present the information on paper to all centers simultaneously

Civilian defense. Much time is saved by the use of the teletype to spr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Photographed by Afred T. Palmer or Howard Hollem. Title and other information from caption ca... More

In the teletype room where weather data and other information is constantly being received. Washington D.C. municipal airport

In the teletype room where weather data and other information is const...

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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. The Civil Aeronautics Communication station where observations and weather forecasts from all sections of the country are received and transmitted over land line teletype circuits

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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Columbia, South Carolina. Air Service Command. A teletype class for signal corps men at a training center

Columbia, South Carolina. Air Service Command. A teletype class for si...

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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Harriette Thorne is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the Bureau of Publications and Graphics

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

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Teletype radio plane set, used by Navy Dept., to receive typewritten radio messages from Naval airplanes

Teletype radio plane set, used by Navy Dept., to receive typewritten r...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bureau. Weather observational reports are received by teletype system from all parts of the country at a forecast center for plotting on manuscript sectional maps. Mr. Jean Gallene examining a report that has just been received

Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bu...

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

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

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Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bureau. Weather observational reports are received by teletype system from all parts of the country at a forecast center for plotting on manuscript sectional maps. Mr. Jean Gallene examining a report that has just been received

Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bu...

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Sergeant Arthur Burtis, left, of 1255 Cook Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey and Corporal Milton Florman, of 1453 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, making repairs on a teletype machine at a training center. They will take their place in the signal company of a service group

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Sergeant Arthur Bur...

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