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Photo # NH 91529:  Navy Department office scene, 1918-19

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"Main Navy" and "Munitions" Buildings --
Interior Views (II): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919.

After the Main Navy and Munitions Buildings were occupied, during the last part of 1918 and the first months of 1919, a photographer (or photographers) captured scenes of Navy Department personnel at work. Dozens of the resulting images have been preserved in the Naval Historical Center's photo collections, and are presented on this page and those linked from it. None of these views is precisely dated, and the identification of the offices photographed was not recorded with the images. However, some can be dated and at least roughly identified from calendars, books and other items visible in the images. All-in-all, these photographs provide an excellent depiction of the office arrangement, equipment and people of the Navy bureaucracy at the end of World War I.

This page features selected views of miscellaneous offices inside the Main Navy and Munitions buildings, in 1918-1919.

For more images taken inside the Main Navy and Munitions buildings in 1918-19, see:

  • -- Interior Views (II-A): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 1);
  • -- Interior Views (II-B): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 2);
  • -- Interior Views (II-C): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 3);
  • -- Interior Views (II-D): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 4);
  • -- Interior Views (II-E): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 5);
  • -- Interior Views (II-F): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 6); and
  • -- Interior Views (II-G): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 7).

    For other Main Navy and Munitions Buildings interior views, see:

  • "Main Navy" and "Munitions" Buildings -- Interior Views (I).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 91529

    Bureau of Medicine and Surgery


    Headquarters staff in the Surgeon General's office, located in the Navy Department or Munitions Building, Washington, D.C., circa 1918-19.
    Rear Admiral William C. Braisted, the Surgeon General, is seated third from the left.
    Note the photograph of 19th Century Surgeon General William P.C. Barton on the wall, at right.

    Collection of Rear Admiral William C. Braisted, USN(MC). Courtesy of Dr. WIlliam R. Braisted.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52907

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Civilian and Naval personnel at work at the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1918 or early 1919.
    This office is on an upper floor at the south end of one of the buildings' wings.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52911

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Scene in an Officers' Detail office of the Bureau of Navigation, in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa early 1919.
    Records folders on table in the foreground are labeled "Officer's Jackets Detail Office". Book at right on the table is the "Navy Directory, February 1, 1919.".
    Note electric fan on bracket at right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 130KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52928

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Office in the Main Navy or Munitions Building, 1918, with both civilian and Navy personnel at work.
    Note telephones and many documents on the desks.
    Windows on adjoining walls indicate that this office was at the end of one of the building's wings.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52931

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Military and civilian personnel in an office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1919.
    Many of the women present are Navy Yeomen (F).
    Note Victory Liberty Loan posters.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97696

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Navy and civilian personnel pose in an office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, circa 1918 or early 1919.
    This is the same office as seen in Photo # NH 52901, with some of the same people present.
    Note typewriters, typing desks, metal file drawers and water cooler.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53182

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Navy and civilian personnel in an office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, 1918.
    Note several Yeoman (F) among the women present and (male) Chief Yeoman in lower left.
    This photo was taken in the same office as Photo # NH 53188, but from a location further down the room.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53194

    Navy Department, Washington, D.C.


    Scene in a Bureau of Construction and Repair drafting office, located on the second deck of the eighth wing of either the Main Navy or Munitions Building, 1918.
    Note location numbers on columns, and the many small signs indicating 100% participation in the Victory Liberty Loan bond drive.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For more images taken inside the Main Navy and Munitions buildings in 1918-19, see:

  • -- Interior Views (II-A): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 1);
  • -- Interior Views (II-B): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 2);
  • -- Interior Views (II-C): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 3);
  • -- Interior Views (II-D): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 4);
  • -- Interior Views (II-E): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 5);
  • -- Interior Views (II-F): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 6); and
  • -- Interior Views (II-G): Miscellaneous Offices, 1918-1919 (part 7).

    For other Main Navy and Munitions Buildings interior views, see:

  • "Main Navy" and "Munitions" Buildings -- Interior Views (I).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 5 October 2001
    Page revised 8 November 2001