Historic Workplace Scenes

Black and white images depicting early 20th-century work environments including telecommunication and utility companies.

Businessman working in his study

Anefo photo collection. Opening "General Tire" new tire factory Amsterdam. October 1, 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

The State Railways, SJ staff. Press service.

1930s 1939 TRADERS ON FLOOR OF NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE VERY BUSY BECAUSE OF THE WAR BOOM MARKET MANHATTAN NEW YORK CITY USA

Poll photo collection. Hohenloher country. Shopkeeper on the sidewalk of his store in Bad Mergentheim. 1954. Bad Mergentheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, West Germany

Stockholm. Telegraph board and district executives in 1942.

Bus driver receives payment for a bus trip.

Agency Department, National Grange Mutual Liability and Fire Insurance Companies. Keene, New Hampshire , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The State Railway's printing company celebrates 30 years.

Early 1900s Photos - Worker outside Western Union Office ca. 1913-1917.

Opening of the first Dutch Jaarbeurs by Z.Exc. Minister Posthuma

Inauguration of Årsta wholesale. King Gustav VI Adolf, 1st from the right. Director General, DG, Erik Upmark, 4th from right in the background

Anefo photo collection. Stock market in Amsterdam, interior. 18 February 1975. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 Supervisor Miss Andrew and the works manager discuss the plans for the huts that are being produced in this workshop, somewhere in England in 1941. The conversation is taking place in Miss Andrew's office.

International Club. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

THE GENERAL ELECTION

Description: Barbados. A female worker with a basket of fibre fuel. Photograph No K 8293 (WPL) Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information. Copyright reserved label damaged on the reverse. Location: Barbados Date: 1947 barbados, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Poll photo collection. Report Amsterdam. A shoemaker in his workplace. January 1, 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Streetcar employee reporting over telephone. Streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Oklahoma County

'The Run on the Birkbeck Bank', 1910, (1933). The Birkbeck Bank began trading as the Birkbeck Building Society and Birkbeck Freehold Land Society in 1851. A run on the bank in 1910 forced it into receivership the following year. From "The Pageant of the Century". Odhams Press Ltd, 1933

Anefo photo collection. Mayor Samkalden opens the Kondor business complex on the Kajuitweg. The mayor is shown. August 22, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

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

DEU, Germany: The historical colour photos from the times of the 70s show events and people from politics, culture, trade unions, working life, medicine, etc. Duesseldorf. Stock exchange. 70s

President Theodore Roosevelt at his desk in the White House, Washington, D.C., USA, Stereo Card, R.Y. Young, American Stereoscopic Co., 1903

Have patience, dear, don't swear , Spouses, Maintenance & repair, Stoves

Carpenter or Cabinetmaker Standing Before a Sign Advertising His Trade 1860s-80s Unknown. Carpenter or Cabinetmaker Standing Before a Sign Advertising His Trade. Unknown (American). 1860s-80s. Tintype with applied color. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Palace Soestdijk Interieurs and internal staff. June 7, 1946

Portrait of the telephone operator of the Chamber of Commerce and Factories for Utrecht and the surrounding area (Maliesingel 2) in Utrecht.

Farmers and Merchants Bank & Trust Co., Hannibal, Missouri , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

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

Stamping table in a Post Office. Engraving. Color. 19th century.

Photograph taken outside of a butter shop, where butter has been recently sold at the price of 100,000 Marks per pound. Dated 20th Century

Money To Burn - Halving... The "4-F" money is now on its way to destruction. William A. Steele has the job of slicing bundles of the "lettuce" in halves at this machine. From this point on the two halves of a single bill are never in the same place together. They go by separate routes to ultimate destruction. April 23, 1944. (Photo by A. E. Scott, International News Photos).

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Amsterdam stock exchange in nervous vote overview angle international funds. October 23, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Part of the underwriting, Endorsement and Production departments, National Grange Mutual Liability and Fire Insurance Companies. Keene, New Hampshire , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The staff at the control office at Tomteboda station.

Sericulture.

Anefo photo collection. Voting in Entrepot dock in Amsterdam, workmen in voting booths. November 17, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

1930s 1937 ANONYMOUS PEDESTRIAN BUSINESSMAN APPROACHING NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CORNER OF WALL STREET AND NASSAU STREET NYC USA

Part of the underwriting, Endorsement and Production departments, National Grange Mutual Liability and Fire Insurance Companies. Keene, New Hampshire , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Vintage Photograph. Shop owner ready with gardening supplies in a vintage wheelbarrow scene.

The work of the General Post Office, London, October 1941 A postwoman checks the addresses on the pile of letters she is delivering, to determine the next stop on her round.

Viscount Furness Inspects Heraldic Finery To Adorn His Stand On Coronation Day -- Viscount Furness inspecting the giant coast of Arms, which will be the centrepiece of the heraldic decorative scheme which he has planned for his Coronation Stand. Viscount Furness recently visited an old Kent Road factory (Messrs. John Edgington & Co. Ltd) to inspect the heraldic finery, which is being prepared there on his behalf, for the adornment of the Coronation Stand, to be erected outside his offices for his guests. April 08, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Contents of a pig food bin being collected outside the Court Dining and Tea Rooms on the corner of Gray's Inn Road, London, 1942. Mrs Emmy Sullivan (aged 39) empties a pig bin into her dustcart or barrow outside the Court Dining and Tea Rooms on the corner of Gray's Inn Road. Painted on the side of the wall of the Dining Rooms are the words 'Excellent Cooking, Quick Service, Moderate Prices'. The dust barrow has two sections: one for rubbish and one for salvage. Mrs Sullivan and her colleagues, also visible at work around her, are from the St Pancras Women's Cleaning Brigade. Also visible are a policeman on his bicycle to the left of the photograph.

Puck Magazine: Our Overworked Supreme Court, Puck Magazine

Members of the Federal Farm Loan Board ca. 1914-1918

USA, Man selling oil

Barber Shop, U Street N.W., Washington, D.C., USA, Marjory Collins, U.S. Office of War Information, July 1942

The shoemaker | Library of Congress

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Cooperative store Mindiptanah's Papumolition. Sold are: fruit, rubber shoes, cans fish preserves. November 1955. Mindiptanah, Guinea

Farmer Standing at Office of Farm Manager, Irwinville Farms Project, Irwinville, Georgia, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration, May 1938

Kennedy & Co. storefront, Hanover Street, Boston , Grocery stores. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Anefo photo collection. Busy at the Amsterdam Employment Office, Employee Committee collects signatures for the entrance. January 14, 1975. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Administrative Sites - Supervisor's Offices. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Sign on dry cleaning establishment. Waco, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Waco, Texas , McLennan County

Anefo photo collection. Black market in Beverwijk demonstrative open after the prohibition of justice. Employees with protest boards against the closure. March 6, 1983. Beverwijk, Noord-Holland

Scene in Postage and Revenue Power Press Room. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Singer Corporation is a manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I.M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark. It was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963. It is currently based in La Vergne, Tennessee near Nashville. Its first large factory for mass production was built in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1863.

BOARD OF TRADE, 'A DEPUTATION'

General Building, Savings & Loan Association, 629 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky. , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A Select Committee of Enquiry hard at work | Library of Congress

Visit our new showroom, 51st & Walnut, Real Estate Remodeling Co. , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

BUSINESS FIRST, PLEASURE AFTERWARDS

The end of the race, a put up job.. The end of the race, a put up job.

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Covington Camera Shop, 808 Madison Ave. , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Old homes remodeled, cash or F.H.A. terms, all work guaranteed, Real Estate Remodeling Co. , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The departure of the municipality and its communicants.

Dortnund. Employment office. Unemployed and jobseekers. 1981-2

Tenant Farmers on Porch of Store and Post Office, Mileston, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, October 1939

A MULE AND A PLOW - Small loans give farmers a new start. Resettlement Administration (1935-1937) poster by Bernarda Bryson Shahn. A US Federal agency set up during the Depression

Anefo photo collection. Paint-in PvdA in the Vijzelstraat, Rinus Ferdinandesse at work. February 10, 1967

Partial view National Grange Mutual Liability Company's Branch Office, State Tower building, Syracuse, New York. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Business / Check - Misery!

Anefo photo collection. Assignment dijkman partners; JAC position. Hermans Professional Fair. 27 1988

'Employees at the Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit', c1930s. Creator: Unknown.

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