Historic Office Work Environments

A collection of vintage office scenes featuring individuals engaged in various tasks, including typing, fingerprint sorting, and document handling, showcasing historical work settings.

Journalists at the Daily Mail type up copy. Date: 1950s

Edifon: Miljöbild.

Frintprint experts at work sorting sets of fingerprints from all order Australia at the Central Fingerprint Bureau, Sydney. February 24, 1949. (Photo by Ronald Leslie Stewart/Fairfax Media).

SJ's Expedition, Liljeholmen.I in the middle storage manager Esse Setterberg

View of the shop door of Winkel no. 4 of the "Lubro bread and pastry bakeries" (Bokstraat 17) in Utrecht; On the left De Reestraat.n.b. At this location, Cornelis Schmidt, the father of the co-founder of the Lubro Gerrit Schmidt, started his bakery in 1888.

Journalists at the Daily Mail type up copy. Date: 1950s

Staff at Nässjö station.

The Resettlement Advice Service of the Ministry of Labour and National Service A member of staff in discussion with an army corporal in one of the interview rooms of the Resettlement Advice Service office in Luton.

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

Portrait of (probably) six employees of a field post office. .

Description: Jamaica. 'His Excellency the Governor Sir Hugh Foot KCMG, KCVO, OBE, addressing a joint session at the opening of the Legislature'. Photograph No.: ZZZ 57674 H. Official Jamaica photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Location: Jamaica Date: 1962 jamaica, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Thomas Edison, President Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Electric Light, At Menlo Park Laboratory relocated to Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

At the desk sits curse Waller.

The number office.

Medium group of people in sunlit office

Office, man at the desk, secretary on the phone, 1940s, exact location unknown, Germany, Europe

Office personnel/railway officials

Caption: "John M. Taylor, Custodian of Alien Property, and Joseph A. Bower, Vice Pres. of Liberty Bank of New York City, conduct the first auction sale of alien-owned property in Richmond, VA, on May 20, 1918. Mr. Bower, a prominent Dollar & Year man, is seen here surrounded by prospective buyers as 4,000,000 pounds of tobacco were sold at an average price of 26 cents a pound."

Cortelyou. Secty. Cortelyou and Barnes in office. Secretary of Treasury - T.R. Roosevelt Admin.

The staff at the track engineering expedition in Kristinehamn.

Secretaries in a Secretarial stenographic pool circa 1937.

Madrid, 1930 (Ca.). Portrait of Mr. Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena in his office as director of ABC.

City staff at Norsholm - Västervik - Hultsfred's railways.

Men gathered around table discussing business.

Foresters at Work - New Hampshire. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

FSA regional official talking to a group of FSA officials and supervisors at a district meeting at San Angelo, Texas 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

Pension - men's. At Arborway Station. Last day before pension , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

James J. Greeley and Gambon , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Personnel in the office building at Tomteboda station.

Åshammar. Registration of arriving value post and sorting regular mail.

Vintage photograph. Engineers going over plans for a new power station.

First traffic inspector Gunnar Valdemar Klingberg, Bollnäs.

A War Office filing clerk in his temporary office, a cell at the Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. The prison was requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of war in 1939. Date: 1939

Bokbinderiet's staff at Tomteboda station.

Twelve-man jury that convicted Al Capone for income tax evasion in 1931. This jury, substituting one Capone tampered with, was made up of men from outside Chicago including a retired hardware dealer, a country storekeeper and a farmer. Capone was sentenced to a total of 11 years in a federal penitentiary.

Office.

Photograph taken within an airline booking hall. Dated 20th century

Albert J. Gagnon, 747 Centre St. Ja 4-3000. Plumber , Plumbing stores, Dogs. Leon Abdalian Collection

Railway personnel at the Royal Majesty Office's office, later the parliamentary office.

Interieur of the workshop for youthful unemployed (Vlijtstraat) in Utrecht: Mr. J. van Duffels behind his desk.

Description: His Excellency, the Governor opening the Budget Meeting of the Legislative Assembly. Location: Accra, Ghana africa

Portrait of mature man sitting in office

Group of vintage businessmen examining documents in a classic office setting

Female employees at the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. in New Haven, Conn. are shown assembling the trigger guard for Browning Machine Guns during World War One. This photograph, taken in April 1918 and approved for release two days later, demonstrates the diverse roles women played in the American military industry.

Training of bus drivers.

Kontor, Edifon.

Picture showing oblique business.Group image.

Sentimentalists Can Go on For Hours About the Virtues of the Old General Store. Original caption: From: Fortune Magazine. May 1949, p. 30.

High angle view of a group of suffragettes in an office

Company Go & Co. AG, action building Leipziger Straße 7/13. Part of the main account. Reproduction by photography. Fig. Page 73 in: 100 years go. History of the company Go & Co., A.G., Dresden 1835/1935. Dresden: W. Limpert, 1935. Dresden: Slub 34.4.1589

08/22/1922. Madrid. In the Communications Palace. 1. Repairing a Postmark Machine, 2. Police Officers Working in the Battle Room, 3. Security Guards Distributing Mail.

Public Relations - Wisconsin. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Pension - men's. At Arborway Station. Last day before pension , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Job Corps - Improvements - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Meeting in Swedish Telephraft officials Association. Chairman Axel Vedholm, Telegraph Director in Sundsvall.

Staff of 8MK Detroit News testing a radio, ca. 1920

Front desk for the head of the verification of the State and Aviation Instruments ir. M.G.A. Haalebos.

Jeweler and watch repair man. 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

Internal Revenue Bureau - Packing Internal Revenue stamps for shipment. Stamps to the value of $1,000,000 packed daily. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Photograph of Jade Carvers at Work 20th century China. Photograph of Jade Carvers at Work 62085

Anefo photo collection. Reception in the Amstel Brewery of Manager of Managers. Running around consumptions. June 8, 1961

Thomas F. Spelman , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Andries Boom in the office, Andries Augustus Boom, 1911 photograph Andries Boom at work at the office of the K.W.I.M. in Paramaribo, November 1911. Part of the photo album of the Boom-Gonggrijp family in Suriname and Curaçao. Gröningen photographic support administration ~ trade and finance Suriname. Paramaribo

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Francisco, California , San Francisco County, Unemployment insurance, Assistance, Depressions, Unemployed, Unemployment

Middle East Sergeant's Wife Does Signalman's Job- Life As a Railway Signalwoman, Molland, Devon, England, UK, 1943 Signalwoman Daisy Cook signs on for duty at the Molland signal box as Signalman Reg Westcott signs off. The ledger they are signing is known as the 'signalman's bible' and no shift must leave until the next shift has signed on.

Vintage photograph. Onion trading at the Chicago Mercantile exchange the largest onion market in the world and the national market for future sales

Anefo photo collection. Assignment: Association of Securities Trading. January 12, 1962

Men standing in front of and exiting the Securities and Exchange Commission circa 1937.

Three businessmen talking

American Federation Labor Confernece group ca. between 1909 and 1940.

Disgruntled employees (EV007759_H)

Sign at a tomato packing shed for migrant and local labor. Hazlehurst, Mississippi. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mississippi , Hazlehurst, Mississippi , Copiah County, Agricultural laborers

Turkmenian collective farmers receiving part of their yearly income from the profits of the farm in the farm administration office in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

M-T-A Credit Union. 201 Park Square Building, 31 St. James Ave., Boston 16, Mass. , Banking, Offices, Employees. Leon Abdalian Collection

Anefo photo collection. Award ceremony in The Hague for business prices for best groomed fish. March 20, 1954. The Hague, South Holland

Business People Prior To 1980 - Trades & Tradesmen. August 26, 1939.

Staff of the Shoemaker Master Stahmer. .

A busy tailor's workshop, with a gentleman being fitted for a new suit. Date: 1875

Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: an ironing room. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., 1893?.

Lawyer, Occupations

Stay at work.

Printing the Bain News Service Photos

Plate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires 1838 Honoré Daumier For a hundred francs, one and a quarter centimes' worth of food every twelve hours... How's that for a revenue!! New principles. We distribute the interest in centimes and per hour... How's that for an invention!!! Guarantees offered to shareholders. The manager will take the company's money and will deposit some of it in the bank... how's that for a bank!!! Capital... We won't tell you, you have to see it to believe it... if you want industry, how about that!!!!!. Plate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires. 'Caricaturana'. Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808-1879 Valmondois). 1838. Lithograph on wove paper. Aubert et Cie. Prints

Partial view of main floor where Executive offices, Accounting, and Claim departments are located, National Grange Mutual Liability and Fire Insurance Companies. Keene, New Hampshire , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Barber, Occupations

Cartoon depicting Roosevelt tinkering with the United States currency. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. Dated 20th century

In the summer of 1907, the American economy was showing signs of weakness as a number of business and Wall Street brokerages went bankrupt. In October, the respected Knickerbocker Trust in New York City and the Westinghouse Electric Company both failed, touching off a series of events known as the Panic of 1907. Date: 02/11/1907

How will our German-American vote - Illustration shows an elderly German American man with one hand pointing to his head and the other pointing to a coin bank labeled "Savings Bank" on a table, he winks to reinforce that he thinks his investments in the "U.S. Bonds" protruding from his vest, and his savings are wise decisions. On the left is a poster showing a bust portrait of President William McKinley labeled "Expansion" and captioned "Gold Standard and Sound Money", and on the right is a poster showing a bust portrait of William Jennings Bryan. 1900

Gothenburg Central. Ticket sales with ticket printing machines.

Work with advertising poster.

Photograph of Employees in the Motor-Driven Press Room. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Division of Loans and currency of Secretarys office: Currency Section where halved U.S. Notes are counted before maceration, to check count in Treasurers Office. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

French satirical illustration showing a rich employer with Havana cigars talking to a despairing poor employee

Anefo photo collection. Visit German Industrials to Jaarbeurs. April 5, 1954

The greatest department store on earth .. and every day a bargain day. Uncle Sam standing behind the counter at "Uncle Sam's Department Store" where there is a "Great Sale Now Going On Inside"; the store is filled with representatives of "Germany, England, France, Russia, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Austria" and Turkey, who are anxious to purchase such commodities as "Steel Rails, Machinery, Provisions, Agricultural Implements, Clothing, Scientific Instruments, Chemicals, Grain, and Tools", as well as battleships, railroad bridges, and locomotives. Uncle Sam is doing a brisk business. 1899

An employee speaking on the phone with a subscriber, Merchant's telephone exchange in New York, United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1970, Volume LXXVI, November 27, 1880.

Carpenter with Square 1860s-70s Unknown. Carpenter with Square 291883

Diamond worker at work in his workplace; The diamond splitter.

Violin maker with the side leaf of a violin in his hand. .

Success Magazine, New York

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