[Machines being used in automobile travel analysis at federal agency in Wash., D.C.: Miss Elizabeth Woodward and E.T. Potterson using sorting machine] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Machines being used in automobile travel analysis at federal agency in Wash., D.C.: Miss Elizabeth Woodward and E.T. Potterson using sorting machine], 1932 Aug. 15. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/04/04a8b657fc43-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Elizabeth Woodward and E.T. Potterson operate a sorting machine in this August 1932 photograph, taken at a federal agency in Washington, D.C., where automobile travel was being analyzed with tabulating equipment. Underwood & Underwood, a commercial news photography firm, made the picture, and its caption card tags it under women's employment as well as statistics. Government statistical work expanded in the early 1930s as agencies used mechanical tabulation to study road use and the growing car culture, and office jobs like this one were among the few open to women in federal service at the time.
| Created / published | 1932 Aug. 15. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Underwood & Underwood. No. 80577 RU. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Employment; Statistics; Automobile Ind. & trade; B.I.; Geogr.; Tabulating machines. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,166 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142086 |
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