These are photographs taken by Roger Smith for the Office of War Information. They are in the "Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black and White Negatives" collection of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division . They are all in the public domain (as are the versions of them here).
In each case the version linked-to is a full resolution PNG that I have created from the original TIFF downloaded from the L of C. Regrettably, for this series of photographs the highest-resolution digital versions available from the Library of Congress are not very high resolution. Since the Library of Congress URLs have changed at least once, instead of citing the URL of the original image, I'll cite the call number.
OWI News Bureau, 1942.
"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." Call Number: LC-USE6- D-007918 [P&P] November, 1942.
OWI News Bureau, 1943.
[Caption from original] "Manning Office of War Information's 'nerve center.' A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI." Call Number: LC-USE6- D-007756 [P&P]. January, 1943.
OWI Bureau of Publications and Graphics, 1943.
[Caption from original] [Caption from original] "Manning Office of War Information's 'nerve center.' A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Harriette Thorne is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the Bureau of Publications and Graphics." Call Number: LC-USE6- D-007757 [P&P] January, 1943.
OWI Bureau of Publications and Graphics, 1943.
[Caption from original] [Caption from original] "Manning Office of War Information's 'nerve center.' A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the teletype room of the OWI. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Esther V. Myers is shown at a receiving machine in the teletype room of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics while Miss Shirley K. Conway dispatches news on an ASR machine." Call Number: LC-USE6- D-007755 [P&P] January, 1943.
All of the OWI images here were created as official US federal government photographs and are in the public domain. The digitized versions of them at the Library of Congress and the re-presentation of these here remain in the public domain.
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