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War Work--Clerical Workers

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Updated 11/12/04.
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Photos

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Uncle Sam needs 600,000 typewriters for the armed services and is contacting all possible typewriter users to urge them to release "1 out of every 4" typewriters for Army or Navy services.

Taking time off between the shooting of scenes at the RKO Studios in Hollywood, Miss O'Hara helped collect more than 70 typewriters for future use by the Army, Navy, and Marines.

Cortez W. Peters, World's Champion Portable Typist, is shown with ten late model standard-size typewriters which he turned over to the Government to aid the drive for 600,000 machines for the Army and Navy.

Miss Clara Camille Carroll contributes her bit to the war effort in her daily work. She is one of the thousands of Negro girls now filling clerical positions in the Nation's Capital.
 

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Lititz, PA. Mr. M.C. Demmy, Principal of the Lititz Borough School, and the president of the Chamber of Commerce, in his school office where he has just received a letter from the government asking him to turn in one-third of the school's typewriters.

Typewriters for war work.
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Washington, D.C. A government secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management (OEM) cleaning her typewriter.
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Mr. De Lavallade, office manager of civilian defense at his office at the Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, IL. The project office is the center for civilian defense for the entire Douglas community.

Washington, D.C. A secretary in the United States Office of Emergency Management (OEM).

Arlington, VA. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp project for Negroes. Manager of the project going over rental plan with his secretary.

Washington, D.C. Miss Mabel Stargel talks into a microphone of the office intercommunication system at Western Union telegraph office.
 

These photos are in the American Memory the collection, Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Women filing documents

Man filing documents in cabinets

Man seated at filing cabinet

Woman at machine in office

Man and woman working in office
 

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Posters

This poster is in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Victory Waits on Your Fingers!
 

This poster is in the Minneapolis Public Library's Posters of the Second World War collection.

An office worker's war creed

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