A morning in Washington DC, United States. American flags grouped in various places. Flags at the entrance of a building. A sign for 'Jelleff's' on a building in the background. Flags on other buildings. A flag on a post atop a building.
The Fingerprint Recording Section at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC, during World War 2. Women fill and examine fingerprint cards. A sign reads 'Time is Short'. A man walks in and searches for cards. A woman examining Personal Identification cards with finger print. She thumbs through the cards. Stacks of cards on tables. Fingerprints on cards. Four women examine, sort and pile National Defense Program application cards. Women wear finger covers. A man places stacks of cards on a table. Two women examine cards on a table.
Printing Department at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC. Men work on multilith machines (duplicating machines). Paper stacks in the background. Multilith copy machines showing posters of wanted men with their pictures and finger prints. Wanted posters for World War 2 suspected German saboteurs and spies operating in the United States, including Walter Kappe, Joseph Schmidt, and Reinhold Rudolf Barth. All there suspects were, at the time, reportedly associated with the eight would-be Nazi saboteurs captured earlier in the summer in the Operation Pastorius case.
Printing Department at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC during World War 2. Men operate printing machines. A man stacks 1942 edition of "Police War Duties" booklets coming off printing press machine.
Recording messages at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC during World War 2. Two cryptographers seated at a desk in the laboratory. Stacks of books in the background. An alphabet roll on the desk. One cryptographer uses grids to decode a letter. The other records the decoded message. The first cryptographer holds up the grid. The coded letter. He places the grid onto the letter.
People eat various food stuffs in cities and suburbs in the United States, including new ready to eat foods and convenience foods, fast foods, frozen foods, prepared foods, and food from vending machines. A pigeon eats grains. People seated at a sidewalk cafeteria. Sidewalk vendors include a frankfurters and rolls vendor. A man sells food and drinks in a railway car. A woman takes a beverage in the car. Men eat hamburgers at a restaurant. Girls have cotton candy at a fair, a boy eats ice cream. Sodas, milk, ice cream vending machines. A man fills Coca Cola from a vending machine. People eat at various Automats. A man has corn on the cob. Frozen vegetables emptied in a pot. Reddi whip whipped cream from a can being put on desserts. A turkey "TV dinner". Frozen ices and French fries. Prepared, canned biscuits are placed on a baking sheet. View of hands opening a box of frozen pancakes and putting two pancakes in a toaster. View of pancakes being put on a plate after toasting and covered with maple syrup. a single-serving Raisin Bran cereal box is opened by a child using cut-out lines on the cardboard. Chocolate sauce on a dessert. A boy spreads toothpaste on a toothbrush. Elaborately dressed women eat at a restaurant. Woman sitting at a diner counter as bus boy clears dishes.
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