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Washington, D.C. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, President of the National Council of Negro women, presenting certificates to hostesses for USO duty, at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA on Rhode Island Avenue. Facing the camera is Miss Dorothy Height, Director of the YWCA

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A group of men standing around a piano - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a group of men in uniform - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A group of men standing around a piano - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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Carbon cartons can be used in this manner

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A black and white photo of a man in a lab coat, Another method to use cheeseboxes

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A black and white photo of a group of soldiers - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A group of men standing around a table - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a group of men in uniform - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a group of men in uniform - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A couple of men sitting on top of a sandy ground - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a group of men in uniform - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A group of men walking down a sidewalk next to the ocean - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A group of men standing next to each other - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a large room. Office of War Information Photograph

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Hamilton W. Wright, center, chief of the Industrial Salvage Branch, Salvage Division, War Production Board, is presented with a handsomely prepared jumbo book by Gordon Lament, right, of New York City, president of the Dairy Industry Supply Association. The book contains copies of the 250 pages of advertising and editorial cooperation contributed by the twenty-two trade publications in the dairy field in connection with special scrap salvage campaign sponsored by the Dairy Industry Supply Association, which covered 30,000 dairy processing firms throughout the country. It is worthy to note that twenty million pounds of critically needed materials were collected against an original objective of a million pounds. Truly a remarkable performance. Eric Webster, left, chief of the General Industrial Equipment Division, WPB, looks on

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Bulldozer grading the grounds of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C

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War worker goes to Washington. Back home in the Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall, Miss Clara Camille Carroll meets a Cleveland, Ohio, friend, Corporal William M. Decatur, Jr., of the cavalry detachment at Fort Meyer, Virginia. While a party for service men is being held in the recreation room, the two home-towners retire to the lounge to discuss old times

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. One of 600 skilled workers employed in the construction of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor, for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C. Photo shows carpenter fitting window

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Office of War Information News Bureau. The News Bureau room of the OWI. It is arranged much the same way as the city room of a daily newspaper. Here, war news of the world is disseminated. In the foreground, are editors' desks handling such special services as trade press, women's activities, and campaigns. The news desk is in the background

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers. W. Spurgeon Burke, Managing Director of the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C. is shown in his office

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War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently arrived war worker from Cleveland, Ohio, was lucky. The 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall had just been opened for Negro women war workers, and the War Housing desk at the United States Informational Service referred her as a possible tenant. There she met W. Spurgeon Burke, managing director

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War worker goes to Washington. Acting on the advice of the personnel advisor in her section of the War Department, Miss Clara Camille Carroll registers at the War Housing desk at the United States Informational Service, Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, North West. This office was established to aid war workers in obtaining suitable living quarters

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A black and white photo of a group of people sitting at a table, Farm Security Administration Photograph

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Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Strength of the wooden manhole covers installed in Los Angeles County, California, is pointed out to Colonel Carl H. Reeves, superintendent of the Los Angeles County, California, Maintenance Department, by Alfred Jones, county surveyor. Treated to resist termites and decay, each wooden cover saves 500 pounds of metal. It may be manufactured without the use of extensive fabricating equipment. A War Production Board (WPB) order prohibits the use of iron and steel for manhole covers

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Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Lifting a wooden manhole cover into place is Colonel Carl H. Reeves, superintendent of the Los Angeles County, California, Maintenance Department. Treated to resist termites and decay, each wooden cover saves 500 pounds of metal. It may be manufactured without the use of extensive fabricating equipment. A War Production Board (WPB) order prohibits the use of iron and steel for manhole covers

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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

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A black and white photo of a woman in a bedroom. Office of War Information Photograph

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Two girl war workers, Miss Ivy L. Kelsa of Rochester, New York (reclining) and Miss Mercedes A. Brooks of Saint Louis, Missouri, are shown in their double room in the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro war workers in Washington, D.C

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War worker goes to Washington. So that the folks back home in Cleveland, Ohio, will not worry, Miss Clara Camille Carroll sits right down to the desk in her new room at the Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall and writes them all about it

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A black and white photo of a car parked in front of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of an oil tower. Office of War Information Photograph

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage of housing for Negro women war workers in Washington, the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is completing construction of Wake and Midway Halls, which will accommodate 1,000 women. The project was erected by Samuel Plato, Negro contractor, at a cost of $1,600,000. Photo shows front elevation of the dining room and recreation buildings attached to the structure

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First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of federal dormitories for war workers in Washington, D.C., on May 18, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited four projects erected for Negroes and expressed herself as highly pleased with the accomodations. At Wake and Midway Halls, she was greeted by Samuel Plato, building contractor, who had just turned the buildings over to the government. Mr. Plato is shown with Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss W. Gertrude Brown, resident manager of Wake Hall. The two buildings, opened last month for more than 800 Negro women war workers, were formally dedicated by Mrs. Roosevelt

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers. The spacious lounge of the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., is shown above. The 322 residents of the hotel will also enjoy a comfortable lobby, a fountain room for leisure hour snacks, a cafeteria, valet shop and beauty salon

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OEM (Office of Emergency Management) newsroom

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Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Alfred Jones, Los Angeles County, California, surveyor, explains to Beverly Hoyt the installation of wooden manhole covers in use in the county. Treated to resist termites and decay, each wooden cover save 500 pounds of metal. It may be manufactured without the use of extensive fabricating equipment. A War Production Board (WPB) order prohibits the use of iron and steel for manhole covers

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Mechanics laying pipe at Wake and Midway Halls, latest addition to the housing for war workers in Washington, D.C. The new buildings will house 1,000 Negro women war workers and is being completed by Samuel Plato, contractor

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Ceramic fireplace grate. This new type ceramic fireplace grate may be used in a million homes this winter. It may replace the cast iron fireplace grates, production of which has been discontinued by a War Production Board (WPB) order

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War worker goes to Washington. Before leaving Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Clara Camille Carroll had heard of the crowded living conditions in the nation's capital. A friend had written that she could room with her temporarily, so that problem was settled for the moment. Three may be a crowd, but four in a room was too much, so Miss Carrol began to seek new quarters

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War worker goes to Washington. With their co-workers in the War Department, Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Dorothy Burgess of New York City participate in a fashion show at the Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall so that war workers may get hints on how to make the best buys in clothes based on thier salaries

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Office of Emergency Management newsroom. April 1, 1942

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War worker goes to Washington. Rested and happier than since she came to Washington, Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, enters the Social Security Building where her War Department unit was assigned. The Mail and File Section has now been transferred to the Pentagon Building in Arlington, Virginia

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A black and white photo of a person using a drill. Office of War Information Photograph

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War worker goes to Washington. Typical of the thousands of young Negro women summoned to Washington, D.C. for war work, Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, arrives at Union Station in the nation's capital to accept an appointment as clerk in the Mail and File Section of the Ordnance Department of the War Department. It was a cold and dreary morning when Miss Carrol arrived

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A group of people sitting in a living room. Office of War Information Photograph

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers. A group of young war worker-residents are shown enjoying a game of cards in the fully equipped game room of the Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotels for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C

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A black and white photo of men working in a garden. Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a bridge over water. Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a building under construction. Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a stack of lumber. Office of War Information Photograph

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War worker goes to Washington. The young war worker, Miss Clara Camille Carroll of Cleveland, Ohio, is elated to find a bright and cheery room open to her at the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall in the nation's capital and prepares to move in immediately

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Office of Emergency Management newsroom. April 1, 1942

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A salesman and a patron in a wholesale meat market. A reconstruction photographed during the filming of "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI)

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The camera and crew engaged in the filming of "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, in a bayonet drill

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The jury in a courtroom scene during the filming of "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

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Washington, D.C. Eleanor Roosevelt visiting George Washington Carver Hall, men's dormitory for Negroes

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Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consumer Interest Council, a group of Negro housewives at Newport News, making a report to the members of the Special Services Section of the Office of Price Administration, concerning point rationing. Left to right: Mrs. M. Barr, Miss A. Wilson, Miss Freedman, Mrs. Ethel Stephens, Miss Warrick and Miss F. Williams

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Mrs. J.G. Frain, of Charleston, South Carolina, who is employed at the Office of Scientific Research and Development, is chairman of the Hospitality Committee of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W

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War workers. Social activities. A government girl entertains her young navy officer friend in "Lovers Lane" nook of Scotts' Hotel, a government hotel for women war workers

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Scene of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps

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New York, New York. Nature of the enemy exhibition, designed by the Office of War Information and installed on the plaza of Rockefeller Center

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People gathered in front of a District grocery store where some men with photographic and sound equipment are arranging for some scenes for the motion picture "Black Marketing," produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

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A black and white photo of military vehicles. Office of War Information Photograph

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A black and white photo of a tank in the snow. Office of War Information Photograph

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New York, New York. On the east side

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Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Mechanics take time out for lunch

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New York, New York. Pan-American dancers at a recital in Central Park on Sunday

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War workers. Social activities. The south building of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C

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Government urges vaccinations. As a preventative against the danger of smallpox, diptheria and typhoid, health officials in Washington last week began giving free inoculations to federal employees. Photo shows Miss Norma T. Roberts of the Office of War Information (OWI) being vaccinated by Dr. C.C Dauer of the District Health Department

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Wool replaces rubber. Wool felt, a proven substitute for rubber in washers and gaskets for machinery, may be "tailored" as shown above to meet tolerances of a few thousands of an inch for a variety of sizes and shapes. Physical properties such as resiliency, tensile strength, etc., are "made to order" during the processing stage

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A couple of men working on a piece of wood. Office of War Information Photograph

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Motion picture men and equipment set up outside a grocery and meat market, used during the filming of "Black Marketing," produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

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Two actors in "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released on August 19, 1943

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A woman sitting at a table with a cigarette in her mouth. Office of War Information Photograph

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnesota, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is secretary of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W

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Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides assist graudate nurses by making and changing beds. Photo taken in women's surgical ward of Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., showing volunteer nurses aide, Miss Romay Johnson (left) and Mrs. Dora Boston (right) changing bedsheets for patients

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. An engineer of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, getting instruction in marksmanship

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New York, New York. Street scene on the Lower East Side

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Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Coast Guard training station, Manhattan Beach, New York, is a tough one with a full schedule; recreation is not neglected. Dances and singing take up most of the leisure in the evening. Homer Smith, tenor of the noted radio Southernaires Quartet, is director of the Manhattan Beach Choral Society, composed of white and colored enlistees. He is shown rehearsing part of his group. Also shown is James O. Lewis, another well-known Negro entertainer, who has charge of dancing and entertainment for the Negro personnel at Manhattan Beach

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Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Howard P. Perry, the first Negro to enlist in the Marine Corps

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Liberian presidential party visits Fort Belvoir. Two twenty-one gun salutes, a regimental review and a luncheon with the commanding officers were tendered His Excellency, Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic of Liberia, when he visited Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on May 29, 1943. President Barclay is shown with members of his party and fort officers as the regimental band played the Liberian national anthem "All Hail, Liberia Hail." Brigadier General Edwin H. Marks, commanding officer of the fort, and Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, U.S.A. military aide to President Barclay are shown in the front row with His Excellency. Captain Alford Russ of the Liberian Fontier Force and Captain Swann of Fort Belvoir's public relation office are shown in the rear

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New York, New York. General view of the Nature of the Enemy exhibition, designed by the OWI (Office of War Information) and installed on the plaza of Rockefeller Center

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New recruits of WAACS sworn in. Part of a class of sixteen young women sworn into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps by Major Ina M. McFadden, recruiting officer for the Washington Military District, Thursday evening, January 7, at a public ceremony at the Cordoza High School. Those sworn into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and now awaiting call to active duty are: Misses Neppie Stoker Anderson, Joye Pamela Arnold, Elizabeth Orlean Garrett, Juanita Greene, Elsie Givens, Farieta Hall, Lillie B. Harrison, Marie Humphrey, Nancy McCall, Evelyn F. Overton, Isabelle Peterson, Mittie Lee Thomas, Grace Elizabeth Thompson, Jeanne Cecelia Webster, Catherine Geneva Brown and Ernestine Louise Woods. A drive for 150 Negro recruits from the Military District of Washington is now in progress, Major McFadden announced

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A black and white photo of a fence in the snow. Office of War Information Photograph

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Baltimore, Maryland. A woman welder working on the construction of the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass, at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

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A courtroom scene during the filming of "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

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Witnesses(?) in a "black market" case. A reconstruction photographed during the filming of "Black Marketing," a motion picture produced by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) and released August 19, 1943

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Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The call for 100,000 volunteer nurses aides to relieve the acute shortage of graduate nurses is answered by Negro housewives and mothers throughout the country. At Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. where an eighty-hour training courses has been in progress since last October. Volunteers begin practical training in the central dressing room. Photo shows Mrs. Louis Lucas (left) and Miss Susie Freeman (right) wrapping bandages

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Engineers of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, practice "on the firing line"

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Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Enlistee of the 51st Composite Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps, learning how to load a thirty calibre rifle

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Hundreds of tons of critically needed metal have been saved for the war effort by means of these substantially paperboard boxes which give perfect protection to both fresh and frozen fish fillets, which are an important item during the war

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A black and white photo of a broken bus. Office of War Information Photograph

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New York, New York. Street scene in Harlem

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Negro Marines prepare for action. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, North Carolina. Photo shows "boots" (new recruits) learning to drill

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A black and white photo of a group of people on the beach. Office of War Information Photograph

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New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenburg of the War Manpower Commission, and Louis Priscilla, a Chairman of the Committee on War Cartoons of the American Society of Magazine Cartoons, at the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

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New York, New York. Scene in Times Square at Father Duffy's statue

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Washington, D.C. P. Bernard Young, Sr., publisher of the Norfolk Journal and Guide newspaper and member of the fair employment practice committee

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