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The Reconstruction of 'an Incident'- Civil Defence Training in Fulham, London, 1942 A busy scene in the incident Control Room. In the background a young woman is plotting the incident on a map, whilst the Clerk-to-Officer-in-Charge is removing tabs from the Control Panel and placing them on the Incident Panel. In the foreground, Messengers hand forms to representatives of the heads of various rescue services.
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Scene in bank. San Augustine, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Augustine, Texas , San Augustine County
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Berlin Travel Agency.
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Photographs Related to the Hanford Engineering Works. Western Union
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Mediation agency in Stockholm.
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Department for SJ freight traffic.
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Office of the Underwood Typewriter Company in Washington, D.C., ca. 1910.
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Photography from Album belonging to Ester Holmberg, employed by the telegraph board's statistical department in 1902. The photographs were probably taken in 1907. Karin Pyk at the filing cabinet.
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Lokomotivmaster C. L. Holm.
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Movement desk and cash register of the operating office of the Rijkswerf (RW) in Den Helder in the early 1980s.
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 Inside the Brighton and South  Coast's ticket office at  London Bridge station.       Date: 1903
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Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, report from Tugboat Duvo 9: West Germany. Skipper Anton Rieb in the office of shipping company Damco in Emmerich. 25 April 1955. Germany, Emmerich, West Germany
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Anefo photo collection.  unknown . Commissioning of electronic computer center at KLM in The Hague. November 6, 1959. The Hague, South Holland
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Profit Sharing Schemes - Baby Misc. November 10, 1950.
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Businesswomen and businessmen working in an office
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Vintage Photograph. Widow talking to bank executive.
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office
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Stins Robert Cederberg with staff.
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Woman buying ticket at gate. 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
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office
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Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Risk information service own, photo number 156-0570. 1956
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Two male workers in a printing press
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Women putting checks in envelopes in the Veterans Bureau, Washington, D.C ca. between 1909 and 1932.
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Anefo photo collection. Audrey Hepburn as a saleswoman at Gerson. November 2, 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. The population of Czechos Slovakia gives gold to support the economy. A row of people for a counter from the state bank. August 20, 1968. Czechoslovakia
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Secretary working in office
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Description: Jamaica. 'Kenneth O'Connor, a linotype operator, working one of the 'Blue Streak Comet' machines in the Gleaner works in Kingston'. Photograph No D 78869 Official Jamaican photograph compiled by the Central Office of Information. Publicity statement on reverse. Crown copyright reserved. Location: Jamaica Date: 1955 Mar jamaica, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens
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The scene today at Richmond when men who are out of work because of the foundries dispute filed ***** for unemployment benefits. November 22, 1946. ;The scene today at Richmond when men who are out of work because of the foundries dispute filed ***** for unemployment benefits.
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Photo collection Government information service. Series of money purification Caption "The beginning is there ... The good Dutch guilders comes back. The return of the banking and currencies of 100 guilders formed the first measure on the stabilization of our money. The returned '100-tjes' amounted to An amount of one and a half of two Milliard, so that we can assume that our ex-treasure keeper, Mr. Rost of tonings, has rotated nicely to the "crank" ". July 1945
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"Office and staff of the Receiving and Shipping Department at Hoboken, N.J. under the jurisdiction of the Property Officer, Pier 4. Photograph taken by Geo. H. Lyon on Feb. 21, 1919. Passed by M.I.D. censor on Mar. 10, 1919."
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Vintage Photograph. Woman buying meat at counter.
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Anefo photo collection. Opening of the wholesale building in Rotterdam by Queen Juliana. Queen at Pot & van Nes. June 3, 1953. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Leo J. Costello, Ed. F. Cosgrove. 693 A Centre St., Jam. 4-5000 , Insurance companies.  Leon Abdalian Collection
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Marvas (Marine women's department) at work in a telephone exchange, 1955.
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Bookie in his office
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Young women working around table
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Parish Priest- the work of the Vicar of St Mark's Church, Victoria Docks, Silvertown, London, England, UK, 1944 Reverend Joseph Stephens pays a visit to local baker Henry Eid (right) and his assistant Edward Ward. According to the original caption, 'Eid was born in the parish of German parents. They owned the business before him. He advertises in the parish magazine, and the firm has had no bad debts for 50 years. Edward Ward has worked for the family on and off for 33 years'.
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Anefo photo collection. Members Technical Top Contact Committee meeting Delft. November 28, 1971. Delft, South Holland
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Vintage photograph. Carrier sorting mail on his route, New York General Post Office
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Foresters at Work - Maryland. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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View of woman writing on typewriter in office
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A room full of women Card Punch Operators working on the 1940 census. - (BSLOC_2015_1_224)
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Foresters at Work - Colorado. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Telephone operators are photographed at work in the Terminal Room of the War Department in Washington, D.C. This image was taken in 1919 and the photograph number is 18114. The operators are seen busy in their duties, connecting calls and ensuring effective communication.
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Leo J. Costello, Ed. F. Cosgrove. 693 A Centre St., Jam. 4-5000 , Insurance companies.  Leon Abdalian Collection
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Dutch Guinea: Landdrukkerij. expedition department land printing company Hollandia. August 1956. Hollandia, Guinea
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Government inspectors inspecting different parts of shoes before they are assembled into the finished product, in a factory making footwear for US soldiers during World War I. All work in these factories is carefully scrutinized by expert government inspectors before it is sent to the soldiers.
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Employees in the patent office file room circa 1940.
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Queen Elizabeth at desk. July 1, 1946. (Photo by Camera Press Ltd.).
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Goods expedition personnel are engaged in telephone notification.
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Citizens' Committee of Warsaw. Department Bookkeeping at ul. Mazowiecka 22; J.M. (photographer; fl. Ca 1915); 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);
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Army Post Office in the Midlands, England, 1944 Parcels and packets are sorted by hand by women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at the Army Post Office, 'somewhere in the Midlands'. Many of the parcels contain local newspapers which are sent by relatives to servicemen overseas to keep them up to date with local affairs.
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Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana opens the new building for the government printing company in The Hague. Overview of the printing company. September 7, 1964. The Hague, South Holland
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Women at registration table. Women at registration table
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Anefo photo collection. Grocer as "collector" Prins Bernhard Fonds. June 29, 1948
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Shopping. A young couple in a store that specializes in sports and hunting equipment. The store clerk demonstrates a side by side shotgun while the customer feels the quality of a tennis racket. The store is Widforss vapenhandel in Stockholm with a history of business trade since 1779. Picture taken in the beginning of the 1900s.
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Thomas F. Spelman , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass..  Leon Abdalian Collection
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Front office of insurance company on South Side of Chicago, Illinois. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Chicago, Illinois , Cook County
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Public Relations - Missouri. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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1950s WOMAN USING AN IBM CARDOTYPE ACCOUNTING MACHINE DATA PROCESSING
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Foresters at Work - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Poll photo collection. Restaurant Wivex located in the Facade building of Park Tivoli. Chefs and waiters at work in the kitchen of restaurant Wivex. March 1954. Denmark, Copenhagen
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Inspecting sheets of paper money, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D.C., US, USA, America, Vintage photography
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Labor - Force Ouvriere Workers at Home. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Two unknown men portrayed during work.
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Typewriters Then And Not At Typewriter's 75th Anniversary Show.The present day typewriter and typist in modern dress (left) is compared with the first commercial typewriter of 1875 operated  by a typist dressed in the style of that period, at the Typewriter's 75th anniversary exhibition at Savoy Hotel, London this evening (Tuesday).An exhibition of historic typewriter with operators dressed in the style of each period was held at the Savoy Hotel, London this evening (Tuesday) to mark the 75th. Anniversary of the Typewriter and the start of now Remington Rand manufacturing projects in Britain. October 26, 1948. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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H.L. Stimson at desk writing
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Anefo photo collection. Report Reserve Milva. Reserve Milva. Milva in citizen. Saleswoman Lederwaren. January 7, 1957
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Body Inspection
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1950s TEENAGE BOY SHOPPING FOR SOCKS WITH HELP OF MAN RETAIL SALES CLERK
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President Kennedy, Presidential Secretary Evelyn Lincoln. Evelyn Lincoln, Personal Secretary to President John F. Kennedy, sits at her desk just outside the Oval Office. White House, Washington, D.C.
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Housewife replacing silverware into a specialised storage system
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Dispatching men to work at the union headquarters. San Diego, California. Substantially all defense construction and airplane work is unionized in San Diego. Thus, the union headquarters is a key employment spot 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County
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Drilling in PUB's department store. >>
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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. Swiss protection bank. Swiss protection bank. February 6, 1943
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Side profile of a young woman monitoring gauges in a factory
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Poll photo collection. Reporting Kerko Haarlem. Discussion with the staff (the Pinguin club) at the Kerko shirts company. August 9, 1954. Haarlem
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Light image regarding the youth prospects on the craft and industrial area. Woman stroking, seamstress.
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Vintage Photograph. Woman shopping at Jewelry Counter of Specialty shop.
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1890S 1900S Turn Of Century Bank Interior Women Banking Special Tellers
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Nynäshamn. Card perforation. Hole cards.
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Vintage photograph. IBM electronic statistical machine
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Service with a smile (EV003116_H)
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The Pro And Con Of The Aggression Issue -- Warren Austin (left), United States U.N. delegate, and Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb (second from left), who favor a U.S. resolution branding Red China an aggressor in Korea, confer during political committee session here today. Also in conference are two delegates who oppose the U.S. resolution -- Semyon K. Tsarapkin (third from left), of the Soviet Union, and Juliusz Katz-Suchy (right), of Poland. A final vote on the resolution is expected at tonight's session. January 30, 1951. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Personnel at the freight goods in Eskilstuna.
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S86-30340 (4 April 1986) --- Larue Forbes of CSC prepares to put the MADS tape onto one of the central data offices computers.
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Communications: Radios - Wyoming. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Coffee stretch during the Trafficon course in Fredensborg.
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Poll photo collection. The royal family at Soestdijk Palace. Two secretaries behind their desk. "ca. 1947"}. Baarn, Utrecht (province)
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1940s WOMAN FOOD SHOPPER PURCHASING MEAT FROM BUTCHER WITH COUPON RATION STAMP BOOK IN GROCERY NEW YORK CITY USA
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Vintage Photograph. A back view of a man using a cash register.
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Photo collection Government information service. Disabled people in the labor process. Man with file. undated
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African-American postal employees hand-sort mail on table, no location, 3/1/1966. (Photo by Warren K Leffler/US News & World Report Collection/GG Vintage Images/UIG)
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Public Relations - Utah. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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Five young sewers in a studio; Seamstresses work for a hungry wage in New York. Home Work Tenement in New York City
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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, Unemployed, Unemployment, Depressions, Assistance, Unemployment insurance
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Rehabilitation client repays loan. Oxford, North Carolina 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Vintage Photograph. Hardware store shopping for mugs in the housewares section.
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