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Title

Wartime found Government employees working in poorly-lit, crowded offices such as the Records and Files Department of the Experimental Farm. Services des documents de la Ferme expérimentale à Ottawa. 

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Item (linked) part of

National Film Board of Canada. Still Photography Division [graphic material] (R1196-14-7-E)

Date(s)

Mar. 1945

Place

Ottawa, Ont.

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 photograph ; image 9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.: on card 7 5/16 x 9 3/8 in
Negative Film B/W - safety film

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
nil
Graphic (photo)
Copy negative PA-144872
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
12000
Other accession no.
1971-271 NPC

Terms of use

Credit: Chris Lund/Library and Archives Canada/PA-144872
Restrictions on use: nil
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Photographer: Lund, Chris, 1923-1983.

Additional information

It is difficult to find the workers in this space behind the mountains of files that dominate the office space. Even today, the management of government

records has its challenges, and despite the widespread use of the computer and electronic record keeping, paper is still produced in prodigious quantities

Series title
Office - Technical Space / Espace technique/de bureau

Exhibitions note
On the Job / Au boulot; Eleanor Brown; National Archives of Canada; 2000.05 - 2001.01

Subject heading

1. Furniture & furnishings - Office - 1945.
2. Gov't. - Federal.
3. Public buildings
4. Canada.

Source

Government

Other system control no.

DAPDCAP4481

MIKAN no.

3202901