Historical Office Work

Depicts office environments from the mid-20th century, showcasing people engaged in writing, editing, and administration in various historical contexts.

High angle view of five business executives working in an office, 1951

Description: Intense activity on Hong Kong stock exchange. Broker's-eye view of the quotation board at the stock exchange in Victoria City on Hong Kong Island. Location: Victoria, Hong Kong Date: 1969

Personnel performs the installation of television exchanges.

State Railways, SJ Travel Agency at NK department stores in Stockholm

1960s MANY WOMEN IN OPEN OFFICE WORKING WITH TYPEWRITERS CARD FILES AND ROLODEX. Image shot 1960. Exact date unknown.

1960S Back View Of Men And Women At Typewriters

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

Thomas F. Spelman and John Raymond Tuffey , Street railroad employees, Offices, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Highway Commissioner's Office. Original caption: In 1916 the main offices of the Michigan State Highway Department occupied only four rooms on the second floor of a downtown business block in Lansing. The attached is a picture of the Highway Commissioner's Office with Former Commissioner Frank F. Rogers standing in the center background and Deputy Commissioner Leroy C. Smith to his right. Mr. Smith in now engineer for the Board of County Road Commissioners of Wayne County at Detroit, Michigan. Seated in the foreground is Office Engineer John H. Bateman, now engaged in research work in Mississippi. Seated next to Mr. Bateman is his stenographer, Ruth Ryan. The other offices that comprised the Michigan State Highway Department in 1916 were: A reception room for the bookkeeper who was fortunate enough to have a desk, a Road Drafting Room with tables for ten draftsmen and a small room occupied by the Bridge Engineer and one draftsman. At that time the entire function of the Department was

Vintage Photograph. Woman shopping at jewelry counter of specialty store.

Maid serving woman at table (EV004128_H)

Anefo photo collection. Mary Dresselhuys as a auctioneer at Mak van Waay. September 22, 1959

Technical Assistance - "Hands at Work" Series. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

1940S Man Buying Newspaper From Vendor On Sidewalk New York City

The staff of the Co-Op grocery store lined up behind the counter

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

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

Image of work in the old telephone exchange in a building of the N.S. in Utrecht.

Man sweeping steps in front of store (EV007533_H)

Businesswoman searching for files in a filing cabinet

Anefo photo collection. Reception Terka, Frederiksplein 12. November 25, 1948

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

YWCA War Workers' Club- Rest and Relaxation in Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK, 1944 A view of the busy canteen at the YWCA war workers' club in Yeovil. According to the original caption, prices here are very reasonable, with tea costing 2d, coffee 3d and hot snacks 6d. Groups chat at tables in the foreground, whilst in the background men and women queue at the counter to buy refreshments.

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Station manager Nils Sigfrid Svenningsson.

1940s WORLD WAR 2 WOMAN DEFENSE WORKER IN ROLLER BEARING COMPANY PUNCHING IN TIME CLOCK SMILING LOOKING AT CAMERA

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (JBK) inspects the LaFayette Square reconstruction plans. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy views a scale model of the historic preservation and redevelopment plans for Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. Architect of the Lafayette Square redevelopment, John Carl Warnecke, stands left of Mrs. Kennedy; Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), Bernard L. Boutin (partially hidden on edge of frame), observes from right. Two unidentified men stand in the background. GSA Building, Washington, D.C.

This 1903 photo shows a stock brokers office on Wall Street.

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Security Profiler Bank. undated

Control office staff at Tomteboda station.

Barclay's Mr. Clarks, Director, at his desk 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Rear view of a businessman boarding a train

1960s MEN AND WOMEN AND SMALL BOY STANDING IN LINE AT BANK WAITING FOR THE TELLER TO MAKE DEPOSITS OR WITHDRAWALS - o2277 HAR001 HARS URBAN TELLER FINANCE MOTHERS OLD TIME BUSY NOSTALGIA OLD FASHION 1 JUVENILE STYLE COMMUNICATION YOUNG ADULT SONS LIFESTYLE FIVE FEMALES 5 JOBS 6 COPY SPACE FULL-LENGTH LADIES PERSONS BANKING MALES SIX BANKER B&W BUSINESSWOMAN FINANCIAL GOALS SKILL SUIT AND TIE OCCUPATION SKILLS CUSTOMER SERVICE LABOR MOTHER AND SON OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT OCCUPATIONS BUSINESSWOMEN EMPLOYEE COOPERATION JUVENILES MID-ADULT MID-ADULT MAN MID-ADULT WOMAN MOMS YOUNG ADULT MAN

Munition Workers in Shop Window. September 09, 1947.;Munition Workers in Shop Window.

Registering at N.Y. Job Bureau

Where the type is set , Employees, Mail-order businesses, Printers, Typesetting, Sears, Roebuck and Company

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Workers, buildings, models, meetings. undated

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

Man working on dinosaur fossils/skeleton circa 1931.

Business offices.

Poll photo collection. Reporting Uitgeverij Wolters, Groningen. An employees to his drawing table. August 1965. Groningen (city)

They Paint Toby Jugs So They Can Marry The faster Phyllis Richard 24, and Tom Barns 32, paint Toby jugs, the sooner they can get married. They do their courting at New Haw Surrey, painting jugs at sixpence a time - and Know the art of painting in a row of eye brows with one sweep of the brush. A director of the firm that makes the jugs says "An experienced painter can complete about ninety jugs a week, on part time work at home. One evening a week we hold a painting class in the factory to instruct part time workers how to line-up model footballers or Toby jugs. May 31, 1949. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Woman at ladder in the Royal Patent Office's archive premises in 1941.

Accounting office. 1954.

Striking waiters at hdqrts.

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the wholesale building in Rotterdam by Queen Juliana. Queen at Pot & van Nes. June 3, 1953. Rotterdam, South Holland

Women's workplaces at Siemens on 22. 11. 1973 during the production of telephone sets in Bocholt, Germany, Europe

Workers in a refectory, 70's

Vintage Photograph. Female hands operating telephone switchboard

High angle view of a group of people in a stock market, New York Stock Exchange, New York City, New York State, USA

Poll photo collection. Reporting Uitgeverij Wolters, Groningen. An employee checks a card. August 1965. Groningen (city)

View of the shop of store no. 9 of the "Lubro bread and pastry bakeries" (Varkenmarkt 27) in Utrecht, after the renovation of the building; With shop owner J. Buis in the doorway.

New Hampshire, 1956 , Offices, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

From the telecommunications workshop "sound and picture from us to you". Pictures showing Telecommittee activities and users (private customers).

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection Women window cleaners at work.

Group of men standing in an unemployment line, Weimar Republic, Germany, 1930

Norsholm - Västervik - Hultsfreds Railways, NVHJ Personnel. Office staff at Västervik station.

Collecting the first weekly pension instalment at the post office. The Old Age Pension Act was introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908 with the first pensions available on the 1st of January 1909. Weekly payments were made to all those who had qualified for the benefit, a total of 528000 claims at the time. Date: 1909

Image of an employee of the central workshop of the N.S. in Amersfoort at the graph for repaired freight wagons in the workplace.

Poll photo collection. Diamond trade, grinders, fair. Cutting the diamond at Van Moppes in Amsterdam. January 1, 1932. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

ECA Information Executives Meet Representatives of American Advertising Council. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Seven people at their workplace at the office of the export department, Bolinders mechanical workshop.

White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff advance trip to Costa Rica. White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff trip to San José, Costa Rica, in advance of President John F. Kennedy's visit; WHCA officer, Louie Bean (kneeling at right), and two unidentified men set up equipment.

Men working in a warehouse, Shipping Warehouse, Southampton, England, 1933

Leather goods dealer, Tuscany, italy, 1955.

White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff advance trip to Maine. Two unidentified men work with communications equipment at an unidentified location in Maine, as White House Communications Agency (WHCA) staff prepare for President John F. Kennedys trip to Maine.

The Utrechtsche Vegetable and Fruit Auction .../ The old AFMIJN system has been replaced by modern bidding 'per clock'. Restless does the pointer go back and forth ... Strop or benefit There are many factors that determine that.

Anefo photo collection. Norwegian water for sale per liter at the wholesale of the Waal Rotterdam, shopkeeper comes to get Norwater. November 16, 1971. Rotterdam, South Holland

Models Released: Thomas Mullin. Vintage Photograph. A man opening a safe.

The freight department.

Woman behind the reproduction desk; The French landscape exhibition. .

This 1896 illustration shows two Chinese accountants and a young apprentice in San Francisco's 'Chinatown' at the time. Note the abacus the accountant on the left is using. It is based on a photograph by California photographer I.W. Taber (1830-1912).

Anefo photo collection. Order De Gruyter. Store staff. Pa Verkuyllaan Badhoevedorp (negative to the Gruyter). December 5, 1969. Badhoevedorp

Industrial Switch-Odd Stakes Workless ***** -- Workers queuing up outside an Employment Exchange in Manchester following the great industrial switch-off by which millions have been thrown out of work. It is estimated about 6,000,000 workers will be effected. This is about half the insured working population of this country and presents the Government with new problems especially with regard to unemployment benefit. February 12, 1947. (Photo by Mirror Features).

Even the Tenderloin furnished it's quota - Registrars at work in the Tenderloin District, New York City, 1917

Alternative Title: Women's Work Date Created: 1914 Photo Credit: UBC Library

1960s CLOSE-UP OF WOMAN WEARING SAFETY GLASSES AND WORK GLOVES ASSEMBLING PARTS OF COLOR TELEVISION SETS

Office of U.S. Treasurer. First step in destruction of old United States paper money-machine punches four holes in each package. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

Anefo photo collection. Volendam. Textile Industry Volendam. March 29, 1950. Noord-Holland, Volendam

German women working, Germany circa 1942.

Hagen. Main post office. Mainly woman's jobs in letter distribution, 1988

Work foreman at a factory communicating with management via a wall-mounted Phelp's Duplex internal telephone.; 1879

C&P Telephone Company girl phoning ca. between 1909 and 1940.

Vintage Photograph. New York Savings Bank - 46th Street and Lexington Avenue - crowd entering bank on opening day, New York City, Frame 1

A crew member operates a linen press aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71). Base: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)

Women's War work during the First World War, London, 1918 A young female window cleaner of the Mayfair Cleaning Company smiles for the camera as she works. She is standing halfway up a ladder and stretches out her left hand to wash the large glass window of a draper's shop, somewhere in London.

Working with a Personal Computer (PC) on the Rijkswerf (RW) in Den Helder in the early 1980s.

Workers. Original Title: Miscellaneous. 1930 - 1949.. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Direct Nade PostSpaarskbank native Dutch, Maro, savings postal savings bank. February 15, 1958. Hollandia, Guinea

USA, New York, Finger Lakes Region, Seneca Falls, Birthplace of the Women's Rights movement in the USA, National Women's Hall of Fame

Vintage Photograph. Man and woman stand outside of bank building smiling at each other.

Vintage photograph. Grocery store near Springfield, Vermont. North Windham, Vermont. Grocer, business, people, New England

Traffic restaurant, TR, Service-Boy

DEU, Germany, Dortmund: Personalities from politics, economy and culture from the years 1965-71. Jeweller (goldsmith) work and sales ca. 1965-6, Europe

To the coffee king , exterior view of the business of A, Sponer, st, Kramergasse

United States: c. 1938. A stylish woman in a grocery store holds an eggplant while a clerk picks out a head of cabbage for her.

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

Forest Hills Cemetery. Office helps , Greenhouses, Plants, Office workers, Forest Hills Cemetery Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

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