OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital

OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital

Photograph

Roger Smith

Maker
American, active 1942–1943

Office of War Information

American, 1942–1945

OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital

April 1943
Gelatin silver print
24.4 x 19.6 cm.
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation
2000.0791.0001
Inscriptions print verso-(mimeographed) "OCD Workers Help Protect Nation's Capital"
"D-10071 Nerve center of Civilian Defense communications. A message
center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city
by telephone and radio. A vital part of Civilian Defense work is the
proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the First Aid Center, one with the Decontamination Squad, one with the Disaster Unit and another with the Emergency Service Division. Girls shown at work in the Message Center of Central Alarm Systems, Washington, D.C."
"Watch Your Credit (underlined) No objection to reproducing or
publishing this picture provided credit line 'Photo By Office of War
Information' appears on the photograph or page, except that ..."
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