Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change the spelling of their names, from time to time. To forestall the difficulties which would ensue when Baer subsequently spelled his name Bear, the Social Security Board Records Office has set up several varieties of indexes for re

Baltimore, MD. In handling millions of records two things are of great importance: accuracy and speed. Social Security Account numbers are divided according to the area in which the account number was issued, the group within the area, and the serial, or individual number. There are 9,999 individual

Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The. ing system was adopted as a "foolproof" methods of k

Baltimore, MD. Statistical data of great value in the future will accumulate in the files of the Social Security Board Records Office. To provide easy means of developing and studying this information, without disturbing the permanent records, acturial cards are reproduced from the original employee

Baltimore, MD. Chances of a mechanical error escaping detection are infinitesimal in the Social Security Board Records Office and great care is excercised to guard against human error. After the employee master card has been prepared, and before it is sent on to reproduce an acturial card, indexes

The millions of applications for social security account numbers are handled in orderly manner in the Social Security Board Records Office. After the hour and date, and the number of each application has been recorded, as it is received, applications are sent to 'holding files.' Here they are held u

Exactly what happens to each of the millions of Social Security Account applicants during each working shift is recorded daily. At any minute of the day or night it is possible to locate any application through the records maintained in the production and control section of the Social Security Board

Baltimore, MD. Every individual Social Security Account is listed in several ways in the Social Security Board Records Office. The photograph above shows a Records Office worker at a machine which is listing in numerical sequence on a loose leaf ledger page a record of account numbers issued, to who

Baltimore, Md. For each block of 1,000 social security account applications 'work' cards are prepared. One work card is made for each operation incident to seeting up individual accounts and necessary indexes. The photograph above shows a worker in the Social Security Board Records Office at work at