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Title: Typing Selective Service names
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated July 18, 1941 reads, "Photo shows the 107 typists at Woodbury College who comprised the system locating the registrants’ names as quickly as the numbers were flashed from Washington. Standing in the center aisle are Capt. H.A. Strong, left, assistant to Lieut. Commander Maurice Sparling, right, Selective Service co-ordinator for Southern California. From this room the names were sent to The Evening Herald and Express and other newspapers.”
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058954
Herald Examiner Collection;
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134988
Subject: United States.--Selective Service System
Woodbury University
Draft registration
Men
Women
Typewriters
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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