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Baltimore, Md. Applications for social security account numbers transmitted to the Boards Office of the Social Security Board, in the Candler(?) Building, Baltimore, Md., in bundles of 500 from each of the typing centers located throughout the country
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'
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 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. 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. 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 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 "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 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. Applications for social security account numbers transmitted to the Boards Office of the Social Security Board, in the Candler(?) Building, Baltimore, Md., in bundles of 500 from each of the typing centers located throughout the country
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Date
01/01/1937
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Baltimore (Md.)
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Library of Congress
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