How U. S. military and naval depots are protected from spies
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How U. S. military and naval depots are protected from spies
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Who Are You, Anyway?
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WAR conditions made it impera-
tive to use the utmost caution
in protecting the military and naval
depots of the United States Govern-
ment from spies and other undesirable
hostile intruders. In view of the fact
that thousands of persons were regu-
larly employed at these depots, and
that hundreds of persons visited the
depots daily on legitimate business,
some method had to be devised to
‘make strict supervision possible.
Casual visitors were admitted on pre-
sentation of a temporary pass issued
by the identification bureau of the
Quartermaster’s office.
The card contained all
necessary data for the
positive identification of
the bearer; and a similar
card, containing in addi-
tion a portrait of the
bearer of the pass and his
thumb-print, was filed in
the office for reference
and comparison.
To all regular em-
ployees button badges
were issued, showing a
picture of the bearer, his
height, his number, and
the index letters and
number under which his
record was filed. A
specially designed ma-
chine was used for stamp-
ing the pin-badges, which
had a metal back and
frame enclosing the
bearer’s photograph un-
der a transparent cover.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-10
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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51
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 4, 1919
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