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Early Accounting Operations
 
early Candler operations
A scene from SSA's early accounting operations in Baltimore circa 1936. The issuing of Social Security numbers and the creation of earnings records on all Americans covered by Social Security was the largest bookkeeping operation in the history of the world.
     
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