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[Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left]

[Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seate...

On verso: Miss Johnston, Washington, D.C. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left]

[Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seate...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[General Shelley, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk,facing left]

[General Shelley, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, ...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[General Shelley, Auditor Navy, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk,facing left]

[General Shelley, Auditor Navy, Treasury Department employee, half-len...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gov. Thompson(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left]

[Gov. Thompson(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait,...

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[Mr. McClelland(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front]

[Mr. McClelland(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Man (boss) waiving his fist at female employee in a sweatshop (clothing factory)]

[Man (boss) waiving his fist at female employee in a sweatshop (clothi...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1888 Nov. 3), p. 188. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sweating system 1888; Women Employment 1888; Labor; Shelf.

White House employee, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

White House employee, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

Employee seated at desk, half-length portrait, facing right. No. 8665.

[Col. William H. Crook, a White House employee, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

[Col. William H. Crook, a White House employee, half-length portrait, ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Col. William H. Crook, a White House employee, half-length protrait, seated at desk, facing left]

[Col. William H. Crook, a White House employee, half-length protrait, ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Capt. Isaac Bassett, employee of U.S. Senate for over 60 years, turning back the hands of the Senate clock at close of a session of Congress] / Harry O. Hall.

[Capt. Isaac Bassett, employee of U.S. Senate for over 60 years, turni...

3557 U.S. Copyright Office.

Attorney General of Penna. Appeals Washington D.C. July 8. Attorney General Charles J. [...]rgiotti, of Pennsylvania announced today that he would appeal to the NLRB for a speedy employee election [...] the Johnstown, PA. Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. he is shown just before appealing to the board with Denny Lewis, right, brother of the CIO chief

Attorney General of Penna. Appeals Washington D.C. July 8. Attorney Ge...

Two men standing next to each other in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christmas 'spirits' rush hits Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. In anticipation of an unusual Christmas 'spirits' rush, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing is now turning out 9,870,000 liquor stamps every day. Miss Florence Benland, Bureau employee, is pictured with the batch of liquor revenue stamps printed during her first hour of duty

Christmas 'spirits' rush hits Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Washin...

A woman standing in front of a stack of books. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

N.Y. employee's parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

N.Y. employee's parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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N.Y. employee's parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

N.Y. employee's parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Agnews State Hospital, Employee Garage, North Side of Palm Drive, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Agnews State Hospital, Employee Garage, North Side of Palm Drive, San...

Survey number: HABS CA-2710-AB Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction

[Interior of People's Drug Store, 7th and M Streets, Washington, D.C., with employee behind the counter of soda fountain]

[Interior of People's Drug Store, 7th and M Streets, Washington, D.C.,...

National Photo Co., Washington, D.C. No. 5835(?). Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. Employee in picture has wheeled barrow 50 years

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. E...

Man pushing wheelbarrow with money stacked on it. National Photo Company Collection.

[Interior of People's Drug Store, No. 5, 8th and H Streets, N.E., Washington, D.C., with employee behind counter]

[Interior of People's Drug Store, No. 5, 8th and H Streets, N.E., Wash...

National Photo Co., Washington, D.C. No. 5849. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

[Interior of People's Drug Store, 7th and M Streets, Washington, D.C., with employee behind counter with display of candy and cigars]

[Interior of People's Drug Store, 7th and M Streets, Washington, D.C.,...

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[New York City sanitation dept. employee sweeping street, ca. 1910]

[New York City sanitation dept. employee sweeping street, ca. 1910]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cotton-mill employee using seat that is on the end of her machine. Pawtucket, R.I. Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cotton-mill employee using seat t...

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(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cotton-mill employee using seat that is on the end of her machine. Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cotton-mill employee using seat t...

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Medicine ball being weighed by Post Office employee; shipping tags read: Mr. Joe Tinker, Mgr Reds (Cincinnati) From Continuation School. [1913]

Medicine ball being weighed by Post Office employee; shipping tags rea...

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[Interior of People's Drug Store, 14th and Park Streets, Washington, D.C., with employee behind soda fountain and another employee behind counter with product display]

[Interior of People's Drug Store, 14th and Park Streets, Washington, D...

National Photo Co., Washington, D.C. No. 5871. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Nat. Fed. of Fed. Employee Ex. Com., 11/4/21

Nat. Fed. of Fed. Employee Ex. Com., 11/4/21

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Walter B. Wesley, U.S. Postal Agent at Cobleutz, Ger., the last postal employee to leave Germany

Walter B. Wesley, U.S. Postal Agent at Cobleutz, Ger., the last postal...

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Thompson, Chas. H. (employee of White House with cartoon of Coolidge), 7/28/24

Thompson, Chas. H. (employee of White House with cartoon of Coolidge),...

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Mystery' employee appears before S.E.C. Washington, D.C., May 24. Ben Greay, so-called 'mystery' employee of the Associated Gas and Electric Co., pictured as he arrived at the Securities and Exchange Commission today for questioning. Grey, who was on the utility's payroll at $5,000 a month for 11 months, told the S.E.C. that the White House made an appointment for him to see Frank R. McNinch, then head of the Federal Power Commission. He would not say who at the White House arranged the appointment but did not admit that he spent an hour with McNinch and told him that Associated Gas and Electric Co. would be willing to spend as much as $150,000,000 for new construction if tax liens would be lifted temporarily so the company could refund certain securities. He testified he also met with Ben Cohen and with late Herman Oliphant, Treasury Counsel. He said Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau refused him an interview

Mystery' employee appears before S.E.C. Washington, D.C., May 24. Ben ...

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Secretary Jardine lays cornerstone of New Department of Agriculture building. The names of every employee together with reports on activities and finances of the Department of Agriculture, were deposited this morning in the cornerstone of the department's new $2,000,000 administration building. Secretary Jardine is shown laying the cornerstone assisted by Senator Charles L. McNary and Rep. Gilbert N. Haugen, authors of McNary-Haugen bill

Secretary Jardine lays cornerstone of New Department of Agriculture bu...

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Critchlow Co. General Merchandise, business in Prospect, Pennsylvania. Critchlow store owner or employee at desk II

Critchlow Co. General Merchandise, business in Prospect, Pennsylvania....

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Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk II

Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk II

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Critchlow Co. General Merchandise, business in Prospect, Pennsylvania. Critchlow store owner or employee at desk I

Critchlow Co. General Merchandise, business in Prospect, Pennsylvania....

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Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk I

Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk I

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Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk III

Seven-Up Inc. Seven-Up employee at desk III

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Employee housing. One of the permanent houses in the construction village at Norris. At each project enough types were used to permit taking advantage of site slopes, views, and exposure to breeze. In keeping with the climate all houses have ample screened porches, usually one for dining (as on the lower right) connecting with the kitchen, and one for sitting or sleeping (as the one on the upper floor) connecting with the bedrooms

Employee housing. One of the permanent houses in the construction vill...

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Demountable employee housing. Completed demountable vacation cottage consisting of four slices such as shown on K 2361. Construction method was developed and proved on a series of such cabins, and later put to use for employee housing

Demountable employee housing. Completed demountable vacation cottage c...

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

Will pinch-hit for president. Washington, D.C., Nov. 12. A.E. Cheffee, veteran Reading Clerk of the House, will read President Roosevelt's message to the House members when the Special Session convenes. Chaffee has been a House employee for 33 years, the last 19 as Reading Clerk, 11/12/37

Will pinch-hit for president. Washington, D.C., Nov. 12. A.E. Cheffee,...

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Employee housing. One of the house types at the construction village at Wheeler, Alabama. Most early house types of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) were more or less in harmony with local traditional building design to minimize avoiding conflict with strongly held prejudices, but improvements in detail and a closer approach to thoroughly modern concepts were sought for and attained on each subsequent project

Employee housing. One of the house types at the construction village a...

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Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodation was developed through several intermediate steps and experiments in prefabrication, in answer to the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority's) need for housing for temporary use on construction projects in remote localities. The scheme permits fabrication at a distance from the job (about 600 miles in this instance), thus reducing dependence on overtaxed accommodations at the construction project. After completion of the project, the demountable housing is quickly removed elsewhere. Some of the earlier TVA demountables have been moved three times from project to project. The design shown here is particularly light in weight due to full use of the recently developed stressed-skin system of plywood construction. It is built largely of weatherproof plywood. The large bay across the front greatly enhances the size of the living room. The trailer houses, on the basis of experience to date, are entirely competitive in cost with traditionally constructed housing of the same floor area. On account of being constructed in shops rather than in the field, they are produced with much closer tolerances, considerably better finish, and with equipment designed and constructed with greater detail and superior utilization of space

Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodat...

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Employee housing. Interior typical of some of the very lowest cost semi-temporary houses with walls in number two common tongue-and-groove pine boards

Employee housing. Interior typical of some of the very lowest cost sem...

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Employee housing. One of several house types developed for very low rentals to take care of unskilled labor employed on dam construction. This house of five rooms is built of cinder concrete block, concrete floors and metal roof, thus being fireproof except for the roof construction, as well as very low in maintenance

Employee housing. One of several house types developed for very low re...

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Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demountable method makes use of the stressed skin principle of plywood engineering. In consequnce, the house slices become very much lighter and can be towed on a light undercarriage behind a small truck or ordinary passenger car

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demou...

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Demountable employee housing. Because many construction projects are in remote localities where the need for housing exists only during the construction period, the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) developed over a period of years its own method of prefabrication. Houses, recreation buildings, dormitories, washhouses, etc. have been constructed in three dimensional slices which are transported individually, fully equipped, and are coupled up on the site much like cars of a railroad train. Photograph shows one slice of a cabin, 7 1/2' x 22', in transit

Demountable employee housing. Because many construction projects are i...

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Filling and service stations are provided as necessary parts of employee villages. The one shown on this photograph pioneered in the United States the center location with respect to the two directions of highway traffic which eliminates the need for cars turning out of line to reach the pumps, this layout being particularly advantageous on high-speed through highways

Filling and service stations are provided as necessary parts of employ...

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Employee housing. To accommodate construction personnel at projects, most of which are at some distance from population centers, the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) built permanent housing where there were reasons to expect such communities to be permanent. Being the single owner of land and of structures, the Authority used such housing projects to demonstrate modern principles of town planning of which other federal housing programs and private enterprise made use subsequently. The photograph shows a scene in the town of Norris, Tennessee, adjacent to Norris Dam

Employee housing. To accommodate construction personnel at projects, m...

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Employee housing. Interior typical of houses at Norris. Floor is of third-grade tongue-and-groove oak which is produced locally. Walls are 7/8 inch tongue-and-groove pine to the window sill level and large sheets of quarter- inch thick fir plywood above. Ceilings are of insulating board. Windows are steel with aluminum screens. Houses are electrically heated; hot water and heating equipment are likewise electrical

Employee housing. Interior typical of houses at Norris. Floor is of th...

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Old Faithful Inn, Employee Laundry, West Thumb, Teton County, WY

Old Faithful Inn, Employee Laundry, West Thumb, Teton County, WY

Survey number: HABS WY-87-G National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000226

Demountable employee housing. Group of construction workers' houses, built on demountable principle, on a dam construction project in North Carolina. Some of these houses are on their third location since they were first built in Alabama and hauled approximately 300 miles in sections

Demountable employee housing. Group of construction workers' houses, b...

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Demountable employee housing. Three-bedroom war workers' house constructed in five slices. On this project, where the houses went into an existing community in Alabama to provide housing for employees of chemical and metallurgical industries of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), the local desire for traditional appearance was accommodated by the use of a pitched roof. Each side of the roof is hinged at the eaves and is laid down, during transport, over the ceiling to bring overall height within normal highway clearances

Demountable employee housing. Three-bedroom war workers' house constru...

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Demountable employee housing. Completed demountable vacation cottage consisting of four slices such as shown on K 2361. Construction method was developed and proved on a series of such cabins, and later put to use for employee housing

Demountable employee housing. Completed demountable vacation cottage c...

Original Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) number: 13818-L. Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisio... More

Watts Bar steam plant. General view of the plant still under construction. When finished, four turbines will generate 240,000 kva. Tall portion houses boilers, bunkers, and conveyor in a simple brick cube, ninety-odd feet tall, above ground and several stories below. Lower portion at right is turbine hall with glass brick upper part and corrugated transite spandrel above. Wing in front houses machine shop on first floor, offices on second. Main entrance is marked by large glazed opening with flagpole next to it, windowless portion to left of ot contains employee lockers and toilets

Watts Bar steam plant. General view of the plant still under construct...

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Farley speaks at dedication of new building. Postmaster General James Farley shown addressing the huge crowd of notables, those high up in governmental life. Senators and Congressmen and Post Office employee's who gathered to be present at the dedication of the New Post Office Department building here in Washington. Speaker Henry T. Rainey also spoke. 6/11/34

Farley speaks at dedication of new building. Postmaster General James ...

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Gentlemen, I am shagrined [...] so hinted Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) when it was inferred by testimony of Eugene Sellers, NRA employee, that the box of cigars he received some time ago from utilities Chief John Carpenter was "not a box of cigars" and was a "pastebord box instead of a wooden one." Rep. Patton is seen here displaying the package he claims to have recieved, before the Senate Lobby hearing Friday, 7/26/35

Gentlemen, I am shagrined [...] so hinted Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) ...

A black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peddled tear gas, Washington, D.C., Sept. 24. Called to the stand today before the Senate Committee investigating espionage in labor relations, E.E. McGuffin, Youngstown, Ohio, President of the National Corporations Service, admitted he received a commission of $373.60 from the Lake Erie Chemical Co., for assisting in gas sales during a Terre Haute, Ind. strike. Before establishing the National Corporation Service, McGuffin was an employee of the Railway Audit and Inspection Co.

Peddled tear gas, Washington, D.C., Sept. 24. Called to the stand toda...

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Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Harry E. Wilhelm, 43, a World War veteran and unemployed huckster of York, PA., won himself a job today on his ability to recite from memory the 6,757 words of the Constitution and Amendments. In his quest for work, Wilhelm called on Rep. Sol Bloom, Chairman of the United States Constitutional Sesquicentennial Commission, to whom he announced he was the only man in the world who could recite from memory the Constitution. Interested but skeptical, Bloom promised Wilhelm a job if he could back up hi claim. With Bloom checking the words, Wilhelm made good on his boast and is now an employee of the U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission mail room. 9/13/37

Ability to recite from memory the constitution wins war veteran a job....

A black and white photo of two men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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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Florida photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Florida photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Inf...

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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. 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. 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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A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, Florida. Farm S...

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A black and white photo of a man holding a bunch of bananas, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a bunch of bananas, Florida. ...

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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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A black and white photo of a man making bread, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man making bread, Florida. Farm Security ...

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Baltimore, MD. In handling millions of records two things are of great importance: accuracy and speed. Social Security Account numbers are divided according to the area in which the account number was issued, the group within the area, and the serial, or individual number. There are 9,999 individual or serial numbers in each group, and 100 groups in each area. To eliminate chance of human error, and to speed up the work, the area number and the group number of each account is punched on the employee master card by a "gang punch" machine. Only those serial numbers belonging to the same area and group are put into the gang punch machine at one time. Thus the machine need be set only once to punch the correct area and group number on hundreds of cards faster and more accurately than a human being could. The photograph above shows master card being punched with holes representing area and group numbers in the gang punch machine

Baltimore, MD. In handling millions of records two things are of great...

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An employee of the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida

An employee of the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida

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A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory, Florida. Farm S...

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A black and white photo of two men working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men working in a factory, Florida. Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Nation's busiest secretary. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Probably the busiest Secretary in the Capitol these days is Eugenia Pope, Secretary and only employee of Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews. The Bureau will employ 1,000 persons in two months, but in the meantime Miss Pope must keep track of 50,000 applications for jobs, 8/25/38

Nation's busiest secretary. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Probably the bu...

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Members hear Nebraska Senator flat National Labor Relations Board. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Members of the National Labor Relations Board listen intently as Senator Burke, Democrat of Nebraska, today charged before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that enforcement of the Wagner Labor Act by the NLRB has produced more strife and misunderstanding between employee and employer than ever existed before. Senator Burke made the charge as the basis for his demand for a Senate investigation of the Board. Left to right can be seen: Edward S. Smith, Donald Wakefield Smith, and J. Warren Madden, Chairman of the Board, 1/27/38

Members hear Nebraska Senator flat National Labor Relations Board. Was...

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New U.S. Supreme Court Marshal. Washington, D.C May 3. Thomas E. Waggaman has been named Marshal of the United States Supreme Court to succeed Frank Key Green, who died last week. For 27 years Waggaman has been an employee of the court, starting there as a page boy in 1911 when only 13 years. He was apppointed court crier in 1915, a post he held until yesterday. He is a native of Washington and a graduate of Georgetown University in law, 5/3/38

New U.S. Supreme Court Marshal. Washington, D.C May 3. Thomas E. Wagga...

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Author and administrator of Wagner Labor Act go into a huddle. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Immediately following the blast put on the National Labor Relations Board today by Senator Burke, Democrat of Nebraska, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Senator Robert E. Wagner (right), author of the Wagner Labor Act, was snapped as he went into a huddle with Chairman J. Warren Madden of the NLRB. Burke charged there has been more strife and misunderstanding between employer and employee than ever before since enforcement of the Wagner Act has been placed in the hands of the NLR, 1/27/38

Author and administrator of Wagner Labor Act go into a huddle. Washing...

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New time saving voting machine designed to U.S. Capitol employee. Washington, D.C., May 10. Until Jurgensen, Jr., a tally clerk in the House of Representatives designed this electric voting machine it took at least three months, using the old rubber stamp system, to compile the voting records of the 435 members of the House. Recording the yeas and nays, absent and present, paired for and paired against votes of each individual member, the machine which is similar to an adding machine, does the same job in less than two weeks. Greater accuracy is assured in counting votes with Jurgensen-designed machine, 5-10/38

New time saving voting machine designed to U.S. Capitol employee. Wash...

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Negro employee reaching for baloney in general store. Jarreau, Louisiana

Negro employee reaching for baloney in general store. Jarreau, Louisia...

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First sit down strike in U.S. traced to Reds. Washington, D.C., Oct. 19. Clyde Morrow, an employee of the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities that Communists engineered the first sit-down strike in Michigan--at the Midland Steel Co. Plant in 1936. Morrow, who had joined the Communist Party for the purpose of getting information, asserted he was on hand when the strike began, 10/19/38

First sit down strike in U.S. traced to Reds. Washington, D.C., Oct. 1...

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New Chief Usher named for White House Washington, D.C., April 4. For the second time in more than 30 years a new chief usher for the White House was appointed by President Roosevelt today. He is Howell G. Crim, who succeeds Raymond Muir just named Assistant to the Chief of the International Conference Division. Muir was named to the chief usher's post a few years ago upon the death of Irwin "Ike" Hoover, a White House employee for over 40 years. Charles Cluanch, (standing) a sailor of 20 years standing has been named to the ushers staff in the change, 4/4/38.

New Chief Usher named for White House Washington, D.C., April 4. For t...

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Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider minimum wage for textile workers. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Employer and employee members of the First Industry Committee under the new Wage-Hour Law met with Chairman Donald Nelson and Wage-hour Administrator Elmer Andrews today to consider a minimum wage for more than 1,300,000 workers in the textile industry. Pictured, left to right, are: Donald Nelson, Administrator Andrews, and Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing workers, standing are R.R. West, (left) Danville, Virginia, and John R. Cheatham, Griffin, GA., both employers, 10/11/38

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Capitol's busiest employee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Probably the busiest man at the Capitol the last ten days was Ed Brown, Superintendent of the House Office Building. In addition to taking down the shingles of some 50 defeated House members and hanging the shingles of their successors, Brown had the headache of assigning more preferable offices to 30 other members, 12/31/38

Capitol's busiest employee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Probably the bu...

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Carnival employee sleeping in hammock underneath wagon. Lasses-White show. Sikeston, Missouri

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Bund-Nazi powerful tieup in this country former reporter tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., Aug. 12. First mystery witness today before the Special House Committee investigating Un-American activities was John Metcalfe, former Chicago reporter but now employee of the Committee as a special investigator. Joining the bund under the name of Hellmut Oberwinder, Metcalfe testified that the leader of the German-American bund, Fritz Kuhn, has a secret relationship with Nazi government so powerful he has taken credit for the recall of former German Ambassador Hans Luther and the shifting of German Consuls in this country who refused to so-operate with the bund movement, 8/12/38

Bund-Nazi powerful tieup in this country former reporter tells House C...

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Tiff miner living on subsistence farm is interviewed by FSA (Farm Security Administration) employee. Washington County, Missouri

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Grain elevator employee. Minneapolis, Minnesota. He wears mask while unloading grain from freight cars

Grain elevator employee. Minneapolis, Minnesota. He wears mask while u...

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Streetcar employee reporting over telephone. Streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Mystery' employee appears before S.E.C. Washington, D.C., May 24. Ben Greay, so-called 'mystery' employee of the Associated Gas and Electric Co., pictured as he arrived at the Securities and Exchange Commission today for questioning. Grey, who was on the utility's payroll at $5,000 a month for 11 months, told the S.E.C. that the White House made an appointment for him to see Frank R. McNinch, then head of the Federal Power Commission. He would not say who at the White House arranged the appointment but did not admit that he spent an hour with McNinch and told him that Associated Gas and Electric Co. would be willing to spend as much as $150,000,000 for new construction if tax liens would be lifted temporarily so the company could refund certain securities. He testified he also met with Ben Cohen and with late Herman Oliphant, Treasury Counsel. He said Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau refused him an interview

Mystery' employee appears before S.E.C. Washington, D.C., May 24. Ben ...

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Grain elevator employee at lunch. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain elevator employee at lunch. Minneapolis, Minnesota

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"Office politics" suggested as official is unable to account for presence of employee. Washington, D.C., March 30. The old cry of 'Office politics' was raised today as the subject of a Senatorial Investigation. Miss Bertha Longergan, Miss Margaret Stanley and Howard P. Locke are pictured at the hearing as pricipal witnesses. Miss Longergan, who described herslf as 'one of the older war horses' in her section, having served there for 18 years, and had worried herself into an appendictomy due to what she charged 'juggling' of her efficiency rating which was given as fair, while Miss Stanley's had been 'good' and 'excellent'. Miss Stanley does not have a civil service Rating, and it was brought out that she is doing work which is suposed to be done by stenographers with civil service ratings. Mr. Locke was unable to account for this fact, and denied that he had told Miss Lonergan that something might be done about her rating if she would not testify at the hearings. Mr. Locke is a Justice Department Attorney and says he also attends to 'certain personnel matters'. 3-30-39

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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

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Metal parts are placed on masonite by this woman employee before they slide under the multi-ton hydropress, North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

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A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, working over the landing gear mechanism of a P-51 fighter plane, Inglewood, Calif. The mechanism resembles a small cannon

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An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, Inglewood, Calif. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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A humorous--and positive--approach to the problem of absenteeism is presented in this poster used by the production drive committee of the Chickasaw Ordnance Works, Millington, Tennessee. The poster was designed by an employee of the plant

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Paul McDaniel with his laborer's button. Each employee wears an identification

Paul McDaniel with his laborer's button. Each employee wears an identi...

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First Sierra Leonean to fly with Royal Air Force. Leading aircraftman A.K. Hyde of Sierra Leone, West Africa, is one of the first Sierra Leoneans who will fly with the RAF. A former government service employee in the British colony, he was educated at the Grammar School and Methodist Boys High School in Freetown

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Nutrition in industry. New stainless steel rolling cafeterias are hauled by tractor-train down one of the half-mile-long aisles of Boeing's Kansas plants, each filled with sufficient food to feed 250 hungry aircraftsmen. At stations spaced 250 feet apart the wagons will be uncoupled and attendants will set up shop on the feeding line. Because of the convenient locations selected, no employee will have to walk more than a few steps to get his wholesome mid-shift meal

Nutrition in industry. New stainless steel rolling cafeterias are haul...

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Absentee posters. An employee in the janitor service of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, Connecticut designed this poster which stresses the importance of full attendance to plant workers

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Patent Office employee pointing to copies of first patent granted after 1836 when patent laws were rewritten

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Out of state employee of Hercules powder plant in his room at Mrs. Sells boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Out of state employee of Hercules powder plant in his room at Mrs. Sel...

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Powder plant employee going upstairs. Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

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