For your guidance

For your guidance
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Title: For your guidance
Description:

Image of poster with oversized fingerprint; lettering above fingerprint reads, "NEIGHBORHOOD FINGERPRINT STATION"; lettering below fingerprint reads, "FINGERPRINTS ARE YOUR IDENTIFICATION AND PROTECTION DURING WARTIME HAVE THE ENTIRE FAMILY TAKE THEIRS NOW! WAR IDENTIFICATION BUREAU-COVD." Caption on verso: "FOR YOUR GUIDANCE: This poster, issued by the Brooklyn Civilian Defense Volunteer Office, will be placed outside places in Brooklyn where you may register your fingerprints."

Date: 1942
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 7, 1942.
Retouched.
Collection: Government
Subject: Fingerprints
World War, 1939-1945
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Posters.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: GOVT 0001