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

Photo collection Government information service. Netherlands Antilles, Curacao. undated. Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, Willemstad

Hayward, California, April 17, 1940 - Getting his surplus commodities card okayed. He came to California two years ago from Kansas, where he had lost his farm. He has a wife and two children, is willing to do any kind of work if he can find it.

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

Norman G. Milley. S.S. Kresge Co. 684 Centre St., Jam. Plain, Mass. , Variety stores, S.S. Kresge Company. Leon Abdalian Collection

Portrait of Jules Simon in front of his office Portrait of Jules Simon in front of his desk, circa 1890 ". Photograph of Jules Dornac.

Office of U.S. Treasurer - Redemption Division - Receiving Tellers cage - Money to be redeemed returned to this cage by counters after verification. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

employees lithographic printing, Anonymous, 1880 - 1910.

Tenant Purchase applicants. Stockton, California. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Stockton, California , San Joaquin County, Assistance, Tenant farmers

Municipal Center Dr, Mandl, Municipal councilor Dr, Ignaz Mandl sits on a sandbag and telegraphed to the regional court title page of Die Bomb , Angerer , Göschl, realization

Image of Queen Wilhelmina after her visit to the monster room of the Dutch lingerie and clothing factory in The Hague on the Vredenburg in Utrecht, during the first Jaarbeurs; Next to her Mr. W.A. van Zijst, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Dutch Jaarbeurs.

Print, woodcut, colour. Inflation, in Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and 35 million dollars for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks 'not worth the paper they are printed on'.

Mr. McClelland(), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front | Library of Congress

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

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

Vintage Photograph. Grocery store shopping at Boston Massachusetts.

Carrying On -- A London shopkeeper in the East end Dock area puts up a "Business As Usual" sign Sept. 18 after his shop had been damaged by bombing. January 10, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

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

Men and a woman working in a tailor shop, where each garment was custom made for each customer. The sewing machine powered by a foot treadle performed seaming, but more complex sewing was done by hand. In the background the head tailor attends to a customer.

Minister of Public Works and some U.S. delegates in Brazil. Original caption: 34907: Minister of Public Works and some US delegates at the Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo road monument in Brazil. 34908: Delegation at ranch house on coffee plantation in Brazil. State: Brazil.

DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, business and culture from the years 1965-71. Labour office ca. 1965. unemployed, Europe

Historic photo, woman with typewriter, ca. 1910

The Rush To Sell In London At 27/6d Each - An elderly lady from the country arriving at the London Refining Works, in Aldersgate Street, London, with a bagful of sovereignsGold is more valuable than ever now and some of the leading bullion brokers in London have announced publicly that they will buy gold sovereigns at the price of 27/6d each. It is still illegal to melt down a sovereign but the coins now purchased will be shipped abroad for melting. People from all over the country who have had sovereigns hoarded away, are taking advantage of the offer and disposing of their coins, and thus realising a profit of nearly 5026 on the original value. April 12, 1932. (Photo by Central News).

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

The shoemaker | Library of Congress

Letter store, possibly G.J. Thieme. Workplace where a group of men works as a letter resist. On the right a overseer in his office. On the left a cupboard with a setting.

Cattle dealer in western West Virginia.. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Vintage Photograph. A man installing ceiling tiles. Frame 2.

Personnel at the helm.

British War Relief Society of America Sends Clothing To Britain, 1941 American women sort and pack bags of clothing in the premises of the Dudley House Committee in 1941. The bags are marked with the contents and sizes of the clothes, so that people in the blitzed areas to where these garments will be dispatched, know what to expect, and will be able to distribute them more efficiently.

1930S Elderly Factory Worker In Overalls Smoking Pipe Punching Time Card

File Thailanders at work. February 19, 1949. (Photo by Horace Bristol, East-West Photographic Agency).

Staff reviews a drawing.

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN FRANCE, AT THE PARIS BOURSE

Photograph of Female Employees Trimming National Bank Notes. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Selling Poultry

Bob's Spa , Grocery stores. Leon Abdalian Collection

Madrid, 07/27/1962. The civil governor of the province, Mr. Aramburu, inspecting the store trucks that, sent by the Supply and Transportation Commissariat, will provide service during the summer in the mountain towns. One of them, highly favored by the clientele, appears in this photograph.

Office of Assistant Superintendent E. H. Jemison. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Topfest workers settlement

A barber sharpens his razors on a grindstone turned by his young assistant - Adana, Turkey Date: circa 1930

Vintage Photograph. Woman signing for package from postman.

An engraving depicting an office clerk. Dated 19th century

Co-op store (Segregees), Ansel Adams

F. O. Pierce & Co's prepared house paint's, economical & durable.. F. O. Pierce & Co's prepared house paint's, economical & durable.

N ° 18 / You will immediately leave your work! ... (IT)

And often the hazard forms the destiny. / N ° 1. (registered title) | The life of a journalist (title of all)

The greeting attendant. / 10 (title registered (letter)) | Commercial scenes. (Title of all)

Man on Telephone Maintenance. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

THE STREET-VENDORS' QUESTION

Female typist. Wood engraving published London 1893

Anefo photo collection. Assignment meeting of the securities trading. May 25, 1960

Handicraft, seamstress at sewing machine, 1950s, exact place unknown, Germany, Europe

A Wertheimer, cash register manufacture at Makartfeste , Josef Löwy -, photographer, publisher

Man looking through a small window of a ticket sale, between 50s and 60s, exact place unknown, France, Europe

Business card from print trader Edmond Sagot in Paris. Interior of a kitchen with a hand-acting woman in Dutch traditional costume on a chair, a table in the foreground.

Vintage Photograph. Family buying new construction home.

Photograph of Group of Officials, Probably U.S. Reclamation Service. 1914 - 1917. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Slide. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Irrigation Division. (1924 - 1940). Indian Life on the Western Reservation

French illustration showing a wealthy art buyer purchasing a painting from a poor artist. 1910

Jim and Mike, hard at work, the former apparently breaking his back. Should see Harry, with easy jerk, handle the Enterprise barrel jack. , Men, Barrels, Equipment, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Oldest interior of Ankarsrum's enamel sign factory. At the table t.h. Engineer Abel Svensson. TV. Christian Lehmann from St. Georgen, Baden, Germany. L. introduced the manufacture of enamel signs, which at A. was started 2.8.1890. It was the first production of this kind in Sweden.

Airmail postage and post office stamps with city and date, vector icons. Express delivery, ordered letter and priority confidential stamps from New York USA America, Barcelona Spain and London Britain. Airmail postage confidential, priority mail stamps

Staff at Balsby traffic area.

Office of Auditor for Post Office Department. Electrical tabulating machine. Emplyed in auditing money orders. Counts 35,000 cards daily. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

The success..

Lozza Brothers Eyewear workers ca. 1930.

The commercial club of Washington' Nelson Aldrich as king of the 'U.S. Senate' sitting on a throne with a diminutive Theodore Roosevelt kneeling before him bearing the 'President's Message', around them senators are reading ticker tape or enjoying the success of their investments. The surrounding vignettes show Chauncey M. Depew as a doorman welcoming a man labelled 'The Trusts' into the 'U.S. Senate', John D. Rockefeller sitting at a desk pouring over 'Reports' and 'Expenditures', Charles W. Fairbanks as an office boy stopping Uncle Sam at the top of the stairs demanding who he needs to see and why, and two men stuffing papers labelled 'Esch-Townsend Rate Bill, Tariff Legislation, House Bill' and others into a trash can.

Charles X ... This place could suit me / the employee: no my friend, you are good to get hunting. (IT)

The customer is always wrong! Cartoon from Punch.

Employed audiences in front of a branch of the anchor bread factory, war post card, Police photography -

Chairman James Mitchell New York Stock Exchange, 1885

. Address card from Jacob & George Roeters and Compagnie in Amsterdam, manufacturer of golden, silver and silk fabrics. Interior of a store where a customer searches fabrics on the left to the counter. On the right, a served skein handles side to weigh them. A opened door in the background is a view of the weaving mill.

Call of buying series, broom dealer, Unknown

A workers meeting in Vienna, Original drawing, A workers meeting in Vienna Illustration from About Land und Meer , No, Unknown

Store Sale Sign, Merigold, Mississippi, USA, Marion Post Wolcott for Farm Security Administration, October 1939

Poster for an Architect with Man Leaning Over a Table.

I tell you that you will pay me ... Fichtre !!! An invoice is a title! ..... (...) (IT)

Surveyor, Committee on Land Consolidation, Agriculture, Sindelsdorf, Bavaria, Germany, Sixties, Europe

Hubbel Trading Post. Alaska Task Force Photographs

Innkeeper stands behind the bar of a pub, 1960s, exact place unknown, Germany, Europe

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

Standing farmer's; Labor. .

Woman kneels for a first name company. A woman in black clothes kneels for a first name looking man. A few more men are shown in the background. Top left is: I. part. At the top right state: p .: 242.

Sharon Credit Union. Sharon Credit Union

'The Carpet Shop Inc.' Telephone: YOnkers 3-3905 , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Trade in a flash with Oak Cliff Nash , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Scientific Shoe Fitters, 570 Bloomfield Avenue, Bloomfield, N.J. , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Annual Congress of Commerce and Industry, Anonymous

A Cherokee Indian Basket Maker on Cherokee Indian Reservation adjoining Great Smoky Mountains National Park , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Lijnbaan with two rope butchers at work. .

Hannifin, Jersey City Team, baseball card portrait

J. J. Adrian, chef of the finance and compatibility department.

Image of a propaganda message from the consultancy for labor abroad With the text 'Now you can get a good job without image of a wheelbarrow! Abroad offers you every opportunity for this. "

Keystone, silverware, fine jewelry, watch cases, repairing. Keystone, silverware, fine jewelry, watch cases, repairing

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