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WAVES in a Classroom

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Description: WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in a classroom sitting at typewriters listening to headphones studying code.
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Naval Training Class

Date: 04 1943
Description: Navy personnel sitting at typewriters wearing headphone learning code, probably during World War II. The sailors are in an auditorium or gymnasium, possib...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 03 19 1947
Description: Students seated at typewriters in a classroom with their teacher at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
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Madison Vocational School Typing Class

Date: 04 25 1951
Description: Ferne Stone, Madonna Egan, and Vivian Williams practice typing in the Madison Vocational School commercial department's night school typing class. Eight ot...
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Naval Students in Typing Class

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Description: A Navy student oversees other students in a typing class at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Students Typing in Classroom

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Description: Elevated view of a classroom of Naval students wearing headphones while learning how to type at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Naval Students Learn Typing at Navy School

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Description: A large class of Naval students learn typing at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Students and Teacher in Classroom

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Description: A classroom of students at their desks. There is a woman sitting at a sewing machine and another woman sitting at a typewriter near the windows on the righ...

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