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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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World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec...
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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
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Lieut. Albert L. David with Souvenirs

Date: 07 25 1945
Description: Lieut. Albert L. David showing his wife, Georgia, the souvenirs he brought from the capture of the German U-505 underseas craft. He stood two days and nigh...
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U.S. Army Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: U.S. Army Major Hunter Brumfield in a suit and tie at a typewriter examining his notes. Major Brumfield is one of several army officers working on a master...
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Pvt. Roger Kolkmeyer at Fort Sill

Date: 1941
Description: Private Roger Kolkmeyer types on a typewriter. Kolkmeyer was a company clerk at Fort Sill. He was a former employee of the (?) Department general office of...
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One-Handed Typewriter

Date: 1946
Description: Colonel Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist before World War II, lost his arm while on active duty in Europe. He is seated here with Dr Anton Dvorak, ...
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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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Naval Student Operating Telegraph

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Description: One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is...
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Group Taking Messages at Air Base

Date: 1943
Description: Six women and one man take messages at the Truax Field Message Center, during World War II. Beatrice Lamoreux is sitting at the back table on the left side...
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Typewriters Waiting to be Repaired

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Description: A table top is filled with typewriters at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). Two signs identify which need repair, and which have been repaired. In th...
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Two Men Repair Typewriters

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Description: Two men are repairing typewriters at a table at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Red Cross Field Director

Date: 07 17 1943
Description: Red Cross Field Director, G. Robert Mowerson of Ann Arbor, Michigan, works at his typewriter at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. A field telephone is ...
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Island Woman with Typewriter

Date: 08 24 1943
Description: An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d...
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War Correspondents at Saidor

Date: 01 02 1944
Description: Three war correspondents at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names (left to right) are, unknown man with camera, John Scarlett of Austral...
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Robert Doyle in London

Date: 05 31 1944
Description: Robert Doyle in his room in London, England, at the Mount Royal Hotel. He is working at his typewriter in front of the window.
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Robert Doyle at His Typewriter

Date: 04 16 1945
Description: Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif...

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