Historic Business Environments

Vintage scenes depicting various historic work settings, featuring people in traditional offices and shops.

IBM has developed an information system that provides immediate signature identification for banks. The bank teller (not shown) communicates the customer's the bank account number to the bookkeeping department (shown) who uses the IBM machine to locate that account's signature card. It is put under a television camera, which displays on a screen in the teller's booth. March 27, 1953.

Business district. Boston Edison. Mr. Everett Lang, William Rowan, Frances Coucres, Mary Connelly , Public utility companies, Boston Edison Company. Leon Abdalian Collection

in the shop

Boston Housing Authority. 42 Horan Way office , Offices, Office workers, Boston Housing Authority. Leon Abdalian Collection

IBM has developed an information system that provides immediate signature identification for banks. The bank teller (not shown) communicates the customer's the bank account number to the bookkeeping department (shown) who uses the IBM machine to locate that account's signature card. It is put under a television camera, which displays on a screen in the teller's booth. March 27, 1953.

Cutting flag stripes

The State Railways, SJ Travel Agency Vasagatan, opposite Stockholm Central.

Foresters At Work: Indoors. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Rear view of a female telephone operator operating a switchboard, 1941

Inside (merchant) Shop P.C de Maar, New Town, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Anonymous, c. 1920.

Thomas Gambon. Gambon, Greeley, Zink, Ward , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Citizens' Committee of Warsaw. Financial section. Kasa G Towna - commercial bank; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

01/01/1940. Wenceslao Fernández Flórez in his office.

Workers. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Cashier's desk in department store on Saturday afternoon. San Augustine, 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

Boston Housing Authority. 42 Horan Way office , Offices, Office workers, Boston Housing Authority. Leon Abdalian Collection

Trip to Europe: Arrival in Vienna, Austria 10:50AM; White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff in Vienna. Three unidentified people, one sitting (only legs are visible), one woman sitting behind a desk, and one man standing next to the desk, in an unknown location. A Trans World Airlines calendar is located on the wall above the desk.

Hagop Arzouhaljian, James Tailoring Co. , Tailor shops, Irons Pressing, Cleaning establishments. Leon Abdalian Collection

Anefo photo collection. Jewelery robbery in Amsterdam on Heiligeweg, the store shortly after robbery the staff are still very nervous. September 26, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Dootje van Zijll de Jong at a secretary, Anonymous, 1930 - 1935 photograph This photo is part of an album. Netherlands baryta paper gelatin silver print adult woman. writing-table, writing-desk Netherlands

Office, secretary, woman doing office work, 1920s, USA, North America

Vintage Photograph. Parker Pen Co tools and dyes for all Parker products are created by these artisans.

Train clearer with the task of monitoring the train's movements.SJ Security Service.

Vintage Photograph. 70,000 engineering drawings were compressed to 90 rolls of microfilm by Microstat

Vintage Photograph. Man sitting at desk covered in mail with letters falling from sky.

Mature man sitting at Roll top desk, circa 1900

Vintage photograph. Man making purchase from female employee at magazine stand

Joseph Stalin casts his ballot in the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Candidates were N.A. Bulganin, and S.I. Vavilov. March 12, 1950. - (BSLOC_2014_15_258)

Secretary taking notes at meeting with businessman

Forest Hill Cemetery employees. Ethel 'Gallie' Galbraith, Davenport, Nuccia, and Donovan , Offices, Office workers, Forest Hills Cemetery Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Anefo photo collection. Mrs. Toxopeus opened a fair for fashion and household in Rotterdam. September 21, 1962. Rotterdam, South Holland

USIS Activities, Tours. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Men in queue..

Four men working in a post office

Poll photo collection. The daily activities of a concierge in a Paris' apartment building. The postman has a stack of mail for the concierge. 1936. France, Paris

Trip to Bermuda: White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) communications equipment preparations, personnel, and city views. An unidentified man works on a teletype machine as White House Army Signal Agency (WHASA) staff set up communications equipment in Bermuda for President John F. Kennedy's meetings with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain.

View of women in office

Woman opening letters at the desk

Bureau Manager Tage Berger.

Stage Beauty Salon, Gene O. Taffet. 1024-A Beacon St., Brookline , Beauty shops. Leon Abdalian Collection

S Söderström at BBK (ticket and form office).

General offices of "Liberty Life".. Illustrations. 1925 - 1925. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Chicago (Ill.), African American business enterprises, Liberty life Insurance Co., Office layout, Typists

Vintage Photograph. A portrait of a elderly woman at desk writing a check.

Archduke Karl Soldiersheim Vittorio. Sales office. .

Telephone exchange, Stockholm Central Station

Office work, around 1950, Freiburg, Germany, Europe

Bookkeeper Julner and office guard Sundberg in Ateljé.

Image of some employees of the Denova cigar factory (Kanaalweg 95) in Utrecht during the application of the banderollen and packaging the cigars.

Faisanderie and MSA Garage. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

1950s WOMAN ASSISTANT SHOWING FILES TO A YOUNG BUSINESSMAN SEATED AT DESK IN OFFICE WITH VENETIAN BLINDS AND LEAF PRINT DRAPES - o1118 HAR001 HARS ASSISTANT LIFESTYLE SATISFACTION CLERK FEMALES SHOWING BLINDS MANAGER SEATED COPY SPACE FRIENDSHIP LADIES PERSONS MALES EXECUTIVES VENETIAN B&W BUSINESSWOMAN FILES GOALS WHITE COLLAR SUIT AND TIE SELLING HIGH ANGLE DISCOVERY LEAF AND LEADERSHIP DRAPES OFFICE WORKER OPPORTUNITY OCCUPATIONS BUSINESS SUIT BOSSES GAL FRIDAY ADMINISTRATOR SECRETARIES STYLISH SUPPORT BUSINESSWOMEN COOPERATION MANAGERS MID-ADULT MID-ADULT MAN MID-ADULT WOMAN SALESMEN

Women operators, bench work. Women operators, bench work

Anefo photo collection. Printing new money in printing company Enschedé. Packages banknotes are counted. 1945

1960S Woman In Mainframe Computer Room Surrounded By Many Data Tape Drives Sitting At Desk Typing On Typewriter Indoor

Ruth Carpenter Model Released. Vintage Photograph. Middle age Caucasian woman sitting at office desk holding up check smiling

The routing department , Office buildings, Employees, Mail-order businesses, Sears, Roebuck and Company

Image of members of the ABC cabaret at a counter in the N.S. station Amsterdam et al. in Amsterdam.n.b. The photo was taken in the context of the promotion of the program "De A.B.C.-Express" of the ABC cabaret.

Men queue..

Repairing cowboy boots in boot shop. Alpine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Alpine, Texas , Brewster County

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor giving a demonstration of pressure canning before a group of FSA officials at a district meeting at San Angelo, Texas. She is removing top of pressure cooker 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Woman demonstrating Device that impresses the Great Seal of the United States on certain official documents ca. 1935.

Woman in office.

A new model phone booth introduced by Aluminum Company of American made for smaller locations than traditional phone booths, circa 1960s

Vintage Photograph. A woman showing office mate her engagement ring excitedly.

Red Cross Workers Packing Boxes to go to the United States Armed Forces and Prisoners of War

Man in his office looking at a board (EV006721_H)

Communications: Radios - Pennsylvania. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Secretary using adding tape machine

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Radio studio. Woman in front of cupboard with gramophone records. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Vintage Photograph. Secretary at desk smiling at the camera.

Original caption: "Making Dressings to be Used in the Field ". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Daniel Danielson of Bell Telephone laboratories tests the circuitry of a logic-loaded 'brain' officially known as the central control of the experimental Electronic Central Office serving telephone customers in Morris, Illinois. November 17th 1960

Vintage Photograph. A young woman using a calculator.

Mr. Dodson, Jeweler, Standing Behind Display of Watches, Examining a Pocket Watch, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, W.E.B. DuBois Collection, 1899

Vintage Photograph. A businessman yelling at assistant who is crying.

Anefo photo collection. 'Grocery store from Prince Bernhard' assistance to children's homes. World War II, food facilities. 1945

State Railways, SJ Personnel, Personnel Tax Agency.

Photo collection Government information service. retirement homes, leather. undated. Lather

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Royal stearin candle factory Gouda. .... Workers candles Presumably. undated

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 hand signal shovels. 1922

C&P Telephone Company, telephone switchboard operators ca. early 1900s.

Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left | Library of Congress

Delivering gifts (EV007657_H)

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Landdrukkerij. The different activities of a printing company. Mainly work in this company. February 1961. New Guinea

Hand grabbing telephone

In front of bank, Walla Walla, Washington. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Walla Walla, Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

1940S Women Information Desk Hat Business Receptionist Appointment

This photo, taken in the 1930s, shows a lawyer in his office in the Olympia Building on Purchase street in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Labor Committee at Mill, Passaic

Labor - Force Ouvriere Workers at Home. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Afscheepafdeeling.The Office of the Shipment Department, with employees behind their offices. Photo in the photo album offered to A. van der Eyk on behalf of the chefs and the staff of the Amsterdam trade association (HvA) in Surabaja at his departure from Java in April 1931.

Accounting machine. >>

Vintage Photograph. Garment industry employer showing material to Forman and two women at work bench.

Henry A. Rucker, internal revenue collector, Atlanta, Georgia, seated at large desk in office African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition.

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