Historical Office Environments

Vintage photographs capturing people working in office settings from the early 20th century, providing a glimpse into past workplace dynamics.

Real estate office, circa 1880

Image of some people in an office environment, presumably, in Utrecht with all left. G. van Krieken.

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

Audit, Annie Friman, Karin Svanbeck, in 1900-1910.

Hans Martin and a woman in an office, c. 1930 - c. 1940 photograph Album magazine with a photo by Hans Martin, the founder of the India line of KLM, sitting on a desk in a office together with a typist. Part of the memorial album of the Indies line of KLM, part II. paper. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print airborne traffic, aviation. travelling; tourism. office (~ administration). typewriter

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

Ticket sales, Karlshamn station house. To the right a ticket machine.

Field Shot by Person's Name. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Real estate office, circa 1880

Paris - The deposit of gold at the Banque de France The deposit of gold at the Banque de France. Paris. Photograph of Charles Lansiaux (1855-1939). Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1914-1918.

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

Image of travelers at the counter of the N.S. station Utrecht Maliebaan in Utrecht.

Passagierdampfer Cleveland. Touristenbüro

Free groceries for poor Jews, N.Y.C.

C.O. Öberg & Co: S AB, Eskilstuna. Opening of files.

TAKING AN ORDER (EV001509_H)

Tailoring. Skrädderi.

Customer sitting at the bar, historic photograph, around 1928

Men's shop which caters to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Illinois , Chicago, Illinois , Cook County

'Mr Sandow Attending To His Day's Correspondence', c1898. Artist: Unknown.

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

Administrator of the printing company. View in the private office of an administrator of the Deli Courant printing company in Medan. Part of a group of 18 photos from 1921 within the group of 49 loose black and white photos of different format about the publisher and printing of the Deli Courant newspaper in Medan in the period 1885-1947.

Staff at the Publicity Bureau in New York City, headed by Maj. C.B. Howard, handling newspaper publicity and the weekly bulletin. Photograph taken on July 31, 1919.

Anefo photo collection. Department store. Two soldiers at the counter behind the saleswoman. 1945

Buyers at strawberry auction studying list of car lots to be auctioned. Hammond, Louisiana. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Louisiana , Hammond, Louisiana , Tangipahoa Parish

LINE Agency Agnes Forbeck, agency manager. Nils Hedén, Elin Lidman. In 1900-1910.

Anefo photo collection. Money exchange office at Central Station in Amsterdam. April 20, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Preparation for exhibition.

Cervical magazine in Wippach. .

Plant quarantine inspectors examining goods bought in Juarez, Mexico before entering El Paso, Texas. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , El Paso, Texas , El Paso County, Boundaries

Executive , Business people, Office workers. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Poll photo collection. Cigar and tobacco shop P.G.C. Hajenius on the Rokin in Amsterdam. Turning cigar boxes. 1935. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Registering Fordham's 99,999th Adult Borrower. 1938. Photographs. New York Public Library Archives. New York Public Library

Anefo photo collection. Diamond cutter. November 8, 1945

Storekeeper wrapping up package for farmer. Lakeview Project, Arkansas. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arkansas , Lakeview Project

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

Cigar Shop, Marggrabowa, Russia

Vintage Photograph. Shop owner taking phone call and recording message.

Two men standing in an office, one ironing his pants (EV006454_H)

1960s GROUP OF PEOPLE STANDING IN LINE ALONG STREET WITH NEWSPAPER ADS OF EMPLOYMENT SUPERIMPOSED DURING 1960 &1961 RECESSIONS - w6063 HAR001 HARS MONTAGE DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE FEMALES JOBS UNITED STATES COPY SPACE FULL-LENGTH LADIES PERSONS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MALES B&W NORTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICAN SKILL DREAMS OCCUPATION SKILLS WELFARE AFRICAN-AMERICANS AFRICAN-AMERICAN NETWORKING ALONG COMPOSITE EXTERIOR BLACK ETHNICITY OPPORTUNITY 1961 EMPLOYMENT OCCUPATIONS POLITICS HARD TIMES CONCEPTUAL ADS BENEFITS SUPPORT VARIOUS BUREAUCRACY DISADVANTAGED VARIED COOPERATION DISAFFECTED DISAPPOINTED

Taking packages to Express Office

Under the "for rent" sign, through the door, one flight up, is the headquarters of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Memphis, Tennessee. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Tennessee , Memphis, Tennessee , Shelby County

Photograph of Female Employees Counting Finished Notes. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Freiberg. Soap business Penzel and hairdresser

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Dutch Guinea: censorship committee. censorship committee arrives building Administrative Institute Hollandia, start research concerning censorship issue. September 1959. Hollandia, Guinea

Workers sorting mail at Main Post Office, Washington, D.C., USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Office of War Information, 1938

Mr. Craig works on his bills in the warehouse store. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Pie Town, New Mexico , Catron County

Promperlok in a factory, 1920 - 1935 photograph Two men with bowler hat and a young man with PET/Hoed are registering at work through a process. It is five to eight. Netherlands photographic support personnel in modern industry. labourers going to work

Staff and travelers in front of the bus station Hunnebostrand.

Emile Berliner (1851-1929), American inventor of the phonograph, holding a microphone first used on April 8, 1877, circa 1910s.

Vintage Photograph. Truck dispatcher at work.

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

Prikklok in een fabriek.Two men with bowler hat and a young man with pet / hat are engaged in their work through a time clock. It is five to eight.

Vintage Photograph. Man and woman walk into front of bank building man carries packages.

Rural Storekeeper filling Red Cross Food Orders for drought-stricken Farmers, Arkansas, USA, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Collection, 1930

Poll photo collection. Oysters. A man cleans oysters. undated. France Paris

K. Tuckett operating Bunn package tying machine first to be ***** in Australia the bundle of letters in 2 secs. in America. October 10, 1947.

Group portrait of the Informatrices of the N.S. station Amsterdam et al. in Amsterdam at the information desk.

Vintage Photograph. A man staining cabinet doors. Frame 1.

Image of an employee of the Keuringsbureau of the N.S. (Concordiastraat) in Utrecht at the Karnacherat.

Pres. Wilson & Cabinet

Anefo photo collection. Tonnie Pronk (Ajax player) opened sports shop at the Middenweg in Amsterdam, Eddy Pieters Graafland was also present (left). March 4, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Large hand painting hall.

Woman at Krahner chair.

Around a hundred telegraph clerks are employed in this one room alone at the Central Telegraph Office, London. Date: 1900

Sending packages (EV007207_H)

Reading recruting advertisement in Union Sq., New York

French Worker - Day in the Life of a French Worker. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Strikes - Strikebreakers at headquarters E. 26th St., N.Y. June 1909

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

Manises (Valencia), January 1917. New ceramics school. The royal delegate, D. Rafaél Domenech (x), in the act of presenting to the Board of Ceramic Manufacturers the artists who have been appointed professors of that school.

Man in front of secondhand store, Muskogee, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Muskogee, Oklahoma , Muskogee County

Dog detectives and criminal in office

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

Mr. Phil Fox , Sporting goods stores. Leon Abdalian Collection

Poll photo collection. KLM, buildings, offices, organization. Mr. Dellaert at his desk at home .. May 1954. Amstelveen, Noord-Holland

Image showing Miss Catherine Stinson, an American Red Cross worker, sitting at her desk in Paris, France. The photograph was taken on September 19, 1919.

Madrid. 1910. The ABC bellboys in their concierge, receiving instructions at one point during their work day.

Image of two employees of the Municipal Works Department, in a room in the office of the Gemeentwerken department (behind Clarenburg 12-14) in Utrecht: G.J. Lith, Klerk; C. van der Wal, adj. Commies.n.b.: The name Municipal Works was changed to public works on January 1, 1956.

High angle view of two young women standing near a conveyor belt

FBI agents analyzing fingerprints

Bureau Engraving & Printing, an engraver at work ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Female sales clerk showing jewelry to a customer in a jewelry store

Clones of a businessman

Butchery, saleswoman stands behind shop counter, 1960s, Germany, Europe

Arborway Station , Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor who was formerly a meat cutter at a large packing plant giving a demonstration of meat cutting before a group of FSA officials at a district meeting. 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

Man behind a desk hands Pepita a paper, in or before 1948 drawing A man in a suit is behind a desk on which a row of books, a phone and lamp stand. He hands Pepita, who stands next to the desk, a sheet of paper. paper. India ink (ink). deck paint. pencil pen / brush office (~ administration). paper (writing material)

United States: c. 1926 A group of women standing at the "Savings" teller windows in a bank.

French Worker - Day in the Life of a French Worker. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Bob's Spa. Bob, group , Grocery stores. Leon Abdalian Collection

A.A. Adee, seated at desk

Meeting. Original caption: Miscellaneous (meeting).. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

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Whitman voting

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

Office of U.S. Treasurer. Largest single money package contains forty million dollars. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Business district. Super market. First National stores: Mary Rodday, Esther McDermott, Mary Foley , Supermarkets, Cash registers, Grocery carts. Leon Abdalian Collection

Vintage photograph. Man working on making leather wallet as part of rehabilitative therapy at a hospital

Vintage Photograph. Home workshop man holding chair as wife is upholstering seat of chair.

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