THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PHOTO ARCHIVE • FRAMED PRINTS • STOCK IMAGES

September 1942. New York. "Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper. This camera photographs a photographic print through a screen and produces a strip negative." Acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.

September 3, 1942. "New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. Copy boy about to tear off dispatch from the Associated Press wire." Medium format acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.

September 3, 1942. "New York, New York. Radio room of the New York Times newspaper. The Times listening post, between 10 pm and midnight, between first and second editions. The operator is listening to Axis news (propaganda) broadcast. Paper in foreground has been examined to see what has already been covered in last edition of paper. Operator reports and gives new angles to city editor. Messages are recorded on paper tape in international Morse code." Acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 1942. "Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority). Substation." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Rural Electrification Administration lineman inspecting a meter at a substation." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) lineman examining transformers of a substation." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the OWI. View full size.

July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration cooperative lineman." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.

April 1942. "Fort Riley, Kansas. Signal Corps unit communicating by radio from a scout car during a field problem." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

June 1942. "Norris Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority). Electric switchyard." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

May 1942. "Jim Tillma, a senior in the engineering college, in the electrical engineering laboratory. University of Nebraska, Lincoln." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

June 1942. "Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority linemen." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.

June 1942. "Watts Bar Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project. Control room." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.

1902. "Screw Machine Department, National Cash Register, Dayton, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street." Note the radio masts on the roof; the 12 wires strung between the towers, 236 feet apart, are too faint to be seen. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C. September 11, 1925. "Demonstration of auto safety fender." 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

SAFETY FENDER COMPANY TO GIVE TEST HERE

        "How to pick up a girl" will be practically illustrated tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on Third street between Maryland and Pennsylvania avenues northwest.
        Using a human being in their demonstration, the manufacturers, under the supervision of the traffic director's office, will show a recently devised scoop, which is designed so that when attached to the front of an automobile striking a person, injury is averted. -- Washington Times, 9/10/25