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Archive of Individuals at Desks

Black and white photographs depicting men engaged in writing or reading at desks, set in various office environments from the mid-20th century in Germany and Sweden.

Henry Mayo Bateman at work in his studio. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to The Sketch, The Tatler and The Bystander. His efficient, bold style depicting social faux-pas was ground breaking for its time and his work is a brilliant reflection of the period. It was his 'The Man Who...' series in The Tatler which made his name, with readers able to order limited edition prints of each published illustration. Date: January 14th 1932

Poll photo collection. Visiting Icking. Walter Mehring writing behind a desk. June 1964. Germany, Munich, West Germany

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Poll photo collection. Visiting Icking. Walter Mehring reading behind a desk. June 1964. Germany, Munich, West Germany

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Henry Mayo Bateman at work in his studio. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to The Sketch, The Tatler and The Bystander. His efficient, bold style depicting social faux-pas was ground breaking for its time and his work is a brilliant reflection of the period. It was his 'The Man Who...' series in The Tatler which made his name, with readers able to order limited edition prints of each published illustration. Date: January 14th 1932

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Anefo photo collection. Prof. Zernike Nobel Prize winner. November 4, 1953

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Radio studio. News reader. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Minister of Economics Schmidt. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

'Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States at His Desk in the Executive Offices, Washington D.C', c1930s. President Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. From "Tour of the World". Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., New York, Chicago, London

Anefo photo collection. Lieutenant-Governor General of the Dutch East Indies: Dr. H.J van Mook in the office of his residence in Batavia. January 5, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta

G.L. Record

Evelyn Owen. March 27, 1947.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Anefo photo collection. Seven million guilders to stamps at Schiphol. HR. Henry M. Goodkind. August 3, 1961. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Governor General H. van Mook. Governor General H. van Mook in his office.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

01/01/1930. Gregorio Marañón in his office.

Louis Breguet, Ateliers d'Aviation. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Anefo photo collection. Assignments Keizersgracht N. V. Manger. January 6, 1956

Whaling Skipper Gjelstad plots a course in his ship's chartroom. Gjelstad does not wear any kind of uniform, wears clothes according to the weather aboard ship. July 16, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. Pieter Hennipman, economist. November 2, 1945

Geo. B. Baker

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Anefo photo collection. Jan Derksen has become manager. January 3, 1961

Fadden. August 25, 1955.

Anefo photo collection. TV a matter "The unicorn" Johnny Kraaijkamp. March 16, 1961

Anefo photo collection. Eggshage, Barneveld. January 22, 1971. Barneveld

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Time Out From RacketsThomas E. Dewery, Racket-Busting District Attorney of New York and Candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, as he was pictured at his desk at Forest Hills here yesterday hard at work on his 1940 campaign speeches. The only political comment made by Mr. Dewey, who arrived in Austria for a short rest and to work on his speeches, was to agree with an observer that the Republicans would have much to argue with the New Deal in the 1940 campaign. December 28, 1939. (Photo by Wide World Photos).

Garry Davis. He has no country and no wife.The city clerk at Ellsworth, Maine, refused to marry self styled "world citizen," Garry Davis in a civil ceremony. This raised the question of whether, Davis was a man without a wife as I well as a man without a country. October 11, 1949. (Photo by Australian Associated Press)

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Mayor of Mendon, Utah, second oldest Mormon settlement north of Salt Lake City 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Utah , Mendon, Utah , Cache County

Anefo photo collection. Louis Van Deyssel. September 19, 1949

12/31/1929. Preparing an Article for Campeón magazine. -.

The President of the Italian Republic Antonio Segni reading some papers sitting at the desk of his study at Quirinale. Rome, 20th June 1962

Anefo photo collection. Mr. H. A. Felderhof. Attorney General at the Supreme Court of the Dutch East Indies. February 5, 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

"Home Town Series" - Series of Stories on American ECA Employees. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Preparations for the first parliamentary elections after the war. Preparations for the first parliamentary elections after the war. The basis on which good elections are based are reliable population registers. From the nature of the case, something changed here in the last five years. On the basis of a narrow film on which the most data of the population registers had already been recorded before the war, the karthot sign will be redressed. An official to the ingenious device with which the data from the film is reproduced. November 6, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

J.L. Ford

Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials

Anefo photo collection. MAJ. J.J. Fens KVP Member of Parliament. October 11, 1950

Peace Alas Stressed ... Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo was taken as making his first ***** broadcast ***** broadcast evening deeply impressed upon was minds of his listeners the fast that Japan's foreign policy remains ***** in the maintenance and enhancement of world peace. October 20, 1941. (Photo by The Domei News Photos Service).

12/31/1949. The historian Ramón Menendez Pidal in his Study. Photo: orange tree.

Stracciari

Mr Calwell, C.E. Vall. July 25, 1947.

Blind man reading magazine

Meinberg. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Peter Madison, Successor to Pat Frayne as Liaison Officer for Labor Information Division. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The President of the Italian Republic Antonio Segni reading some papers sitting at the desk of his study at Quirinale. Rome, 20th June 1962

Anefo photo collection. Hie Holland England / Anefo London series. information panels, printed linen City Display Co. London. 1943. Britain

01/01/1920. Jacinto Benavente in his home library.

Radio - School. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The Earl of Carnarvon the initiator of the explorations in the Valley of the Kings. Born in 1866, Carnarvon sponsored Howard Carter's excavations of the royal tombs in Thebes. He died shortly after the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1923, perpetuating the myth of 'The Curse of Tutankhamen'. Date: 9th Dec 1922

Captain W.S. Malden. Magnifying Glass. September 1, 1954.;Captain W.S. Malden. Magnifying Glass.

Anefo photo collection. Father Jan van Kilsdonk. December 19, 1962

Sada (La Coruña), 1952 Francisco Franco in his office in the Meirás manor.

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Kees Manders and the conscious letter he sent to Walter Ulbricht. April 12, 1965

Steel

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. The first governor of New Guinea, S.L.J. Van Waardenburg. 1950. New Guinea

Photography from Album belonging to Ester Holmberg, employed by the Telegraph Board Statistics Department 1902. The photographs were probably taken in 1907. Royal Telegraph and National Phone Statuation in the Old Town.

Alexey Rykov in the Kremlin by Anonymous /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/ca 1924/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Photo collection Government information service. Signed portrait of the writer Louis van Deyssel, pseudonym of Karel Johan Lodewijk Aberdingk Thijm (1864-1952). undated

Princess Anne - Mr. Donald Boreham, the Register of Westminster, signing the Birth Certificate this morning at Caxton Hall.When the Westminster Register, Mr. Donald Boreham, went to Clarence House to-day for the Duke of Edinburgh to complete the Birth Certificate of the baby Princess the names Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise were inserted. The proper name and title for the baby Princess will be H.R.H. Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh. August 29, 1950. (Photo by J. Trievnor).

"The photographic record": 'Sunday afternoon, Feb. 17. 1918'. From the album: Family photograph album; 1917 - 1920; Adkin, Leslie, 17 February 1918, New Zealand, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of Adkin Family, 1997.

John K. Clark

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Welfare service at Laan Hölle. Making overview lists for the distribution of stocks ?. November 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

County supervisor of FSA (Farm Security Administration). Eufaula, Oklahoma 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Eufaula, Oklahoma , McIntosh County

To which the results took shape in the mantel resolution with the corresponding correspondence, 1949 photograph Prime Minister Drees signs the mantel resolution during the final session of the conference in the Ridderzaal on November 2, 1949. Photo in the photo album with 37 photos of the round table conference held between August 23 and November in The Hague in 1949 between representatives of the Netherlands, the Republic of Indonesia and The Federal Consultation meeting. The copy offered to Prime Minister Willem Drees. The Hague paper. photographic support gelatin silver print Racing room

Public Library- the work of Leyton Public Library Service, Church Lane, Leytonstone, London, England, UK, September 1944 Mr G Smith, a retired businessman, chooses two new books at Leytonstone Public Library, on his way home from the shops.

Elsevier photo collection. J. Hendriks, chairman Common Consultation Health Insurance Organizations. November 9, 1966

Coronation Bible - The 'Lively Gracles of God'. The Holy Bible, which will play an important part in the Coronation Service, is studied in London by artist Lenton Lamb, designer of the binding. This massive Lectern Bible, to be carried with the Rogalia into the ***** and placed on the altar, will be presented to the Queen by the ***** of the Church of Scotland, who says: 'Here is Wisdom' This is The Royal Law; These are the lively Gracles of God'. May 13, 1953.

Max Falstein - M.H.R. July 08, 1946.

Wyndham Lewis Listens To "The Childermass" -- Wyndham Lewis author and painter, listens to a rehearsal of "The Childermass", his book which was recently adapted for radio and broadcast in the British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme. Behind him is D.G. Bridson, BBC feature producer, script writer and poet, who collaborated with Wyndham Lewis in the adaptation. Following on the successful broadcast of Part I of "The Childermass" - a book which was primarily conceived as a trilogy - the BBC has now commissioned Mr. Wyndham Lewis to complete Part II. October 10, 1951. (Photo by British Broadcasting Corporation).

E. Henkel

Anefo photo collection. Cabinet formation in The Hague, Professor De Quay in his office. April 9, 1959

Anefo photo collection. Dr, Max Euwe for bookcase. 12 February 1948. Amsterdam

Sir Eugene Gorman, K.C., counsel for the Life Offices Association addressing the Royal Commission on Industrial Life Assurance, today. June 6, 1938.

Anefo photo collection. Mr. Gelink Photo department ZZM The Hague. October 8, 1951. The Hague, South Holland

Newspaper editor. San Agustine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Augustine, Texas , San Augustine County

Anefo photo collection. Movie recording Polygon-Profilti Film "De Dijk is closed". November 10, 1949. Walcheren, Zeeland

Anefo photo collection. Ir J.W. Clerx as of 1 April 1951 Director PW Amsterdam. March 6, 1951. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Mr. Will Ashton who has resigned through ill health. The Position of director of National Art Gallery. Packing his books before leaving yesterday. April 29, 1944.

Donzere-Mondragon - Official/Labor. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

F. B. Sayer

Anefo photo collection. Commands Revue of Advertising. January 10, 1960

Acting Assistant Chief of the US Secret Service, Frank J Wilson 1936.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment General Dagblad, Prof.dr. H. Oomen (head). October 17, 1968

W. Parkinson, President Southern District Miners and I. Steele, AWU members and miners deputy. November 1, 1948. (Photo by Frank Albert Charles Burke/Fairfax Media).

State Railways SJ-News Edit

Disponent Otto E. F. Schmidt at AB Hässleholm's workshops, 1917.

DDE K.A Sjöberg

Ready to Answer "Klan Charges."New York... Ready to give his long-awaited answer to the charges that he was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black is pictured before the NBC Microphone during a "Rehearsal" today. On the basis of statistics on other addresses of such national importance, it is estimated that more than 30,000,000 persons will be tuned-in on the former Albama senator's radio address tomorrow night. September 30m, 1937. (Photo by International News Photo)

12/31/1918. The King in his Office (in an Archive image) He received the director of ABC in London just a few weeks after beginning his Exile. He was the first Spaniard to visit him there.

April 28, 1939 - Senator William Borah reads newspaper headlines on Adolf Hitler .