Historic Archival Activities

Black and white images depict historical archival work including filing systems, record organization, and postal services with early 20th-century ambiance.

Vintage photograph. New York General Post Office. Seperating papers and small packages.

Journal Layout Phase. 1960

Voter stand at "Norra Vaasa" telephone station in Stockholm.

Scene in the Identity Bureau. Each of the little pigeon holes in the cabinet along the wall contains from fifteen to twenty records. Every record furnishes an absolute and indisputable proof of the identity of the man who made the imprint. There are more than 5,000,000 (5,000) records in the bureau.

Photo collection Government information service. DIAS markets ongoing series of 7. undated. Groningen

Files of the office for the military news. 1917.

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (customs officer and travelers during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

Vintage Photograph. Activity about Washington Market in New York City.

Anefo photo collection. UVV assignment packing goods from Indonesia. 1 June 1949. Indonesia

impacchettatura del torrone vergani, 1970

Store No. 10 of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Pięczna 41; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

War Risk addressograph machine ca. between 1909 and 1940.

Franco-American Relations. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Dr. E. J. Boekmanschool. March 25, 1948

Kurj Pleisal

Carload of ink received at Tokyo, Japan ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Vintage photograph. Weighing foreign parcel post packages at US Post Officep

Archive on a workshop wind in Kopparberg.

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

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Crates are unloaded. Crates are open. Books are visible and are partly scattered on the street. April 1947. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Office Secretary Ester Holmberg, Signe Rundqvist. In 1900-10.

Index of fingerprints at Scotland Yard, London, c1912, (1935). Creator: Unknown.

Packing of frozen goods in cold box

Anefo photo collection. Repatriation: Brussels. With the cooperation of the Belgian repatriation service, Dutch repatriation for Dutch people from German concentration camps can organize a rest home located in the beautiful surroundings of Laeken near Brussels. The retirement home was opened by the Dutch ambassador in Belgium on Thursday 14 June 1945. The Belgian Minister of Repatriation Mr. Paul van Zeeland was also present. 14 June 1945. Belgium, Laeken

Man looking at meterorite , Meteors, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

N.Y. Post Office -- Carriers' Cases

Documents scattered in front of an open safe

Anefo photo collection. Voting in Entrepot dock in Amsterdam, ballot boxes. November 17, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Saw Products: Dimensions - Virginia. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "Holland Calls" for America. March 5, 1946. America

Anefo photo collection. Newspaper vending machines placed at NS Stations (Oudenbosch, NB. September 25, 1978. Oudenbosch

China.cultural Revolution. Tazebao

Interior from modern telegram expedition, Högalid, Stockholm.

Library of Congress, book deposits in basement ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Kern Walter (1860-1912), Ministry of the Interior, Berlin. Extension construction (1900-1902): Interior view. Photo on cardboard, 42.4 x 56 cm (including scan edges) Kern Walter (1860-1912): Ministerium des Innern, Berlin. Erweiterungsbau

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Newspaper collection Welfare. A soldier carries a stack of newspapers. A cupboard with shelves with magazines and newspapers. November 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Orangerie Exhibit (Opening of the crates at the Orangerie). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Typographic to work. November 24, 1950

Harold Cleghorn Dustbins almost block the doorway to "the Dungeon". Often when he shifted a dustbin aside a big rat ran out and scurried away. He has killed more than one with one of his eights. November 17, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Modern cooking. Economical with gas. Hayist in order. January 17, 1951

Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea

Germany, Berlin, 31.7.1992, bookstore in de Linienstraße, which mainly sells GDR literature, (former NVA bookstore)

One of Sweden's first radio amateurs, pharmacist John Karlsson, Gothenburg, 1923.

In Darkest Hollywood - Morgue -- Miss Leslie takes Sis and Mom into a film vault to top off the tour. Thousands of prints of motion pictures are stored here. Joan, currently appearing in "Yankee Doodle Dandy", is looking for a print of her last picture, "The Male Animal." June 28, 1942. (Photo by Berger Sidney, International News Photos).

12/31/1929. Don Joaquín Sánchez plays.

Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Offices, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Self-Service Store. Rheims. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Imperial County, California. Cattleman notes down number of head of cattle shipped 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Imperial County

Anefo photo collection. Telephone Suriname. December 20, 1945

Guide for foreign travellers at the Korean Tourist Bureau.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 5x5 wardrobe. undated

All I Wanted Was A Refund On An Unused Rail Ticket - All I wanted was a refund on an unused ***** rail ticket ***** of it. "Go to the second floor, turn left, and knock on the third door on the left," said the commissionaire, I passed dark rooms piled floor-to-telling with files. One the second floor I was sold: "The gentleman you wish to see is Mr. ***** His office is on the first floor." January 16, 1932.

Strasbourg Assemblies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Land shifts in the Belgian municipality of Zussen-Bolder, crates mushrooms. April 5, 1966

11/05/1916. New block of houses in Bilbao. The Military Governor, representing HM The King, Signing the minutes of inauguration of the Houses of Iralabarri.

Fresco class , Frescoes, Artists, Art education. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Location: Tanganyika africa

giappone, operatori su ostriche da perla, 1920 1930

Eugene Davis, gold prospector, reading over location notice form which must be filed along with mining claim. Pinos Altos, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Pinos Altos, New Mexico , Grant County

Anefo photo collection. Citizens Amsterdam get open letter on the Bijlmermeer mayor of Hall and wife. June 20, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

London, Keystone, Preparing the name plates for the second part of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Name plates of various UN countries arranged on the table, verso - stamped, photograph, photo, photos, Keystone press agency LTD 4-7 Red Lion Court Fleet Street London EC, height 206 mm, width 151 mm, photographer, 1949-04-02 - 1949-04-02, second quarter 20th century, paper, gelatin silver print

Anefo photo collection. Population register (M.U.V. Passport agency) Amsterdam city hall. October 3, 1988. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Restoration of English church to Begijnhof. Assignment loyalty. October 26, 1961

Image of the place card printing of the N.S.

Woman reads newspaper in front of a big pile of newspapers, between 50s and 60s, exact place unknown, France, Europe

Background Of ***** Invasion Of A Republic Of Korea -- Nearly 80 per cent of eligible voters in Southern Korea cast ballots in their first democratic election on May 10, 1948, The election was conducted under the observance of the United Nations Temporary ***** on Korea. The democratic rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly were observed. Here, Korean voters cast secret ballots at a poll in Seoul. October 09, 1950. (Photo by United States Information Service).

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Elections Guinea Council Hollandia. Ballot papers collected sealed buses. February 1961. Guinea

Anefo photo collection. Interior intertal, assignment. January 25, 1972

Vintage Photograph. Home show at Commonwealth Armory Boston.

The library of the Royal Institute for the Marine (Kim) in Den Helder in 1989.

Berrima gaol. August 02, 1953.

Anefo photo collection. Huge crowds at post in connection with Christmas item. Calendars are stored in the hallway. December 21, 1961

Anefo photo collection. The Westland. May 27, 1946

The contents of a food parcel dispatched for Christmas in 1944. 180,000 packages were sent out, many to prisoners of war in Germany, by the Red Cross and St John Organisation. Date: 1944

Post office in the early 1900s (before 1945).

The departure of the post from a Saint Petersburg office, Russia, photo from L'Illustration, No 3278, December 23, 1905.

Helping Appeal -- Mrs. Billy Cook (left) and. Mrs. Arthur Ward help their jockey husbands arrange boxes of badges which will be sold tomorrow for St. Margaret's Hospital. Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Ward will be among the badge sellers. August 2, 1951

I wish to Christ they'd give me my own vdt machine. Bookmakers. June 21, 1941.

Man pavement book seller Mohammed Ali road Mumbai Maharashtra India Asia 1976 Copyright: xJagdishxAgarwal/DinodiaxPhotox

North Africa Pix - Parrenin, Tunisia. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo shows the 'Star-Spangled Banner,' the flag flown during the war of 1812, on display at the Smithsonian Castle, Washington, D.C. ca. 1914.

Madrid, 1979. Buying and selling of stickers in the Plaza del Campillo del Nuevo Mundo.

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Syria - Damascus. Drawing a pattern on a copper scale. 1950. Damascus, Syria

Packing Trimmed Notes for Delivery to Numbering Division. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

06/15/1972. Madrid Prison of Carabanchel.

American Theatre Exhibit (lay-out). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Madrid, 06/13/1977. General elections. Aspect of the access to the Madrid metro, full of electoral propaganda, on the last day of the electoral campaign. The cleaning of all the electoral cleaning in Spain cost more than one billion pesetas, two hundred in Madrid alone.

Interior of Plate Vault- Contains 60,000 Engraved Plates. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

The Colombo Exhibition -- Some of the vast crowds who attended the exhibition in the transport section of the United Kingdom pavilion.Wid to South and South East Asia."The Colombo Plan Exhibition, which was held at Colombo, Ceylon, was designed to promote and explain the six-year programme of economic and social development in South and South East Asia.The exhibition was divided into five sections, and in the international section, each of the participating countries had its own pavilion. The exhibits showed the resources which the countries can contribute towards the development of South and South East Asia. Countries who took part in the Exhibition were the United Kingdom and her territories in south and south east Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos and the Maldive Islands. April 21, 1952. (Photo by Central Office Of Information).

Postage Stamp and Revenue Paper Stored between Wet Rags for Dampening Fore Printing. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

03/31/1958. Delivery of Mattresses to the Needy of Madrid - the United States ambassador, Mr. Lodge, with the delegate for Spain of the Catholic Relief Service (NCWC) and the Leaders of national and Diocesan Caritas, Delivering the Mattresses to the Spanish Families in Need, They have been made with cotton sent by American social assistance.

Exhibits: General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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