Vintage Office Work Scenes

Historic images of office life from the late 19th to early 20th century, featuring clerical tasks, political satire, and women in traditional roles.

Bank clerk as a modern female profession in 1897, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century artwork, exact original date unknown, Europe

Reinforcement of the government income, Johan Braakensiek, 1897 Amsterdam paper historical persons. cat. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: knife. political caricatures and satires

Railway inspection, Patricq Kroon, 1920 - 1930 drawing Station chief points the lady behind the counter to the arrival of the Inspector of the Spoorwegen. Design for a political cartoon. Netherlands paper. pencil. ink pen political caricatures and satires. railway, train. station; shelter (railway, tramway)

Characters in front of a bank counter.

Bookseller in his stall. A book dealer has postponed his stock on a script board under a wooden shelter.

Illustration depicting a man writing a telegraph. Dated 19th Century

Bank clerk as a modern female profession in 1897, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century artwork, exact original date unknown, Europe

Bureaucrats during work. ... / 16. (registered title) | The end of my pencil. (Title of all)

Cartoon depicting the interior of an Employment Bureau for domestic servants. Dated 19th Century

Business card from Librairie Falk Fils in Brussels. A man cleans a bookcase, a box with books.

Bakker blows on a horn for his store. In the door of a bakery is a boy that blows on a horn. Bread is displayed on the left before the window. Two women are inside.

In particular office ..

A cartoon titled 'The Customer is Always Wrong'. Dated 19th century

Shoemaker in his workplace. A shoemaker is working in his workshop. He launches a shoe and smokes a pipe. In the background a woman wipes the buttocks from a child with a cloth.

A young wife visiting a cigar shop to buy some cork tipped cigars for her husband. Date: 1928- 1929

The fake operator and his dupe - Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune newspaper, typing headlines that appear on ticker tape that is being read by a stalwart Republican; the headlines include: "The Country on the Brink of Hopeless Disaster, Dem. Congress Behaving like Wild Horses, The Business Situation Growing Worse - All Owing to the Dem, Democratic Juggling with the Finances of the Country, Division in the Democratic Ranks, Democratic Pandering of the Goldbugs of Wall Street, and Dem. Panic". Political Cartoon, 1893

"I hope I don't intrude" Oh! No, with this new Empire Wringer I can work and talk at the same time.. "I hope I don't intrude" Oh! No, with this new Empire Wringer I can work and talk at the same time.

Woman signing document in office while younger woman and seated man watch | Library of Congress

GRABADO-ZAPATERO DE BOTAS Y ZAPATOS DE PIEL.

The ground floor. Caretaker...

Supervisor and subordinate a generic scene in the office. Turbacki, Jan (1880 1931)

Street vendor of office supplies; The Street stationer. .

Ministry of External Relations / Ministry of Finance / Ministry of Public Instruction / Ministry of the Interior. (IT)

Illustration depicting home-workers working at home for pittance. Dated 19th Century

Man in the store of a print seller; The printing seller ..

Engineer, Occupations

ANAMITE WORKMEN INLAYING WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL

The Public Scales of the Butchers, 810 Marches de Paris, Les Halles Centrales, 1890, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Europe

The buyers of goods. .

A grinderx sharpens a knife in Whitehall, London Date: circa 1800

Merchant, Occupations

Illustration showing a group of insurance underwriters examining the 'Casualties Board' at Lloyd's of London, 1886. Details of wrecked and damaged ships were placed on this board, as many were insured at Lloyd's. Date: 7 August 1886

Turners at work Anonymous. "Work turners". Water-loud colored.

Two men repairing a bike in front of the storefront of a bicycle repair shop, Paris. Two men repairing a bike in front of the storefront of a bicycle repair shop, Paris ". Photography Anonymous. Aristotype.

He is a journalist. / No. 2. (registered title) | The life of a journalist (title of all)

Shoemaker at work ..

Clockmaker. A clockmaker in a workplace. At the window two men working on pocket watches.

2 / The grocer. (IT)

Traditional craft, tailor, workshop with several employees, custom tailoring, around 1920, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical

Clarence Brooks & Co, manufacturers of fine coach varnishes. "Now then young feller! You get out of here" "All right old man you've no cause to be afeard, I wouldn't her yer.". Clarence Brooks & Co, manufacturers of fine coach varnishes. "Now then young feller! You get out of here" "All right old man you've no cause to be afeard, I wouldn't her yer."

The grocer, 1840-1841. The grocer. Man with apron standing at a counter. Numbered: 38. Illustration in the book 'De Nederlanden: character sketches, clothing forces, attitude and preventing different positions', a book with character sketches, professions and marketing forces of Dutch people from 1841.

Knife Maker, European Trades - 1820

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

Death sits in his office updating his accounts.

One Corner of Shop at Spirit Lake, Ia., Indian Curios -- Alaska to Mexico , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Albania , Sewing machines, Clothing & dress, Singer Manufacturing Company. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Shoemaker at work.

TAKING THE CENSUS

Illustration depicting a compositor making up a line of type. In his left hand is the composing stick, and in this he places letters taken from the upper case for capitals and from the lower case for capitals and from the lower case for small letters. Dated 19th century

Jim and Mike, hard at work, the former apparently breaking his back. Should see Harry, with easy jerk, handle the Enterprise barrel jack.. Jim and Mike, hard at work, the former apparently breaking his back. Should see Harry, with easy jerk, handle the Enterprise barrel jack.

Salesters of strawberries for the window of publisher Samuel W Fores in London; Folkstone Strawberries or More Carraway Comfits for Mary Ann. On the street prices three sellers of strawberries their merchandise. William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone, curses the street vendors hanging out of the window on the first floor. John Bull comments on the scene, standing in front of the doorway of the store. Inside a seller is behind the counter.

Pressers at work, c1880. Artist: Unknown

The worker.

Workplace Van 't Woonhuys, Amsterdam. .

Picket roller steals from a man who stands for the window of a print trade. .

Carton merchant. / 41 (title registered (letter)) | The cries of Paris. (Title of all)

Engraving depicting the Cobbler and the Banker. Here the cobbler is giving back money his neighbour has given him, because he found it such a worry.

Group portrait of employees at a rock printing company, Anonymous, 1880 - 1910 photograph unknown photographic support. cardboard

Management and labour negotiate during the South Wales lock-out Date: 1875

Portfolio merchant

Money-Changer, China - Costumes & Occupations

Office clerk, Herman Heijenbrock (Possible), 1875 - 1925 drawing Half figure, bald man with a round glasses, writes in a book, left -mounted arch on the table, hand on head. On the left in the background another man bent over his desk in front of a window, left above him two men, sitting. On the right a window with a vague view of a busy street. Netherlands cardboard. chalk brush office (~ administration) Netherlands

Unemployed shoeshine boy in London, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

A woman is sitting at a box counter in the street with money from a basket spilling out on the top. Coloured lithograph.

Market Reports Illustrated - "Hares - Only a very moderate supply!" A barber ponders the task ahead (get it) as he is faced with an elderly gentleman who happen to be rather follicularly challenged. circa 1903

Series "Small businesses", the chair rampager, Paris. Series "Small businesses", the chair rampager, Paris. Photograph of R. Schwartz. Gélatino Bromide Draw, around 1900.

A paperboy holding up the daily newspaper

The Native Grocer. Henry W. Cave, photographer (English, 1854 - 1913) 1893 View of a grocer in his shop sitting among his wares. He is surrounded by another man, women, and children, possibly friends or family. Large bunches of bananas, bundles of wooden sticks, and bowls of nuts fill the store, and a scale hangs beside him. (Recto, sheet) lower center, printed in black ink: "THE NATIVE GROCER." Lower center, along bottom edge of page, printed in black ink: "xi."

Colored commercial illustration by an anonymous artist depicting business cards featuring a gentleman in a gray cylinder hat, created around 1900 using oil pressure technique.

A Lady bus conductor (or 'Clippie') standing on the platform at the back of a double decker London bus, waiting to ring the bell. "Pay your fare and you can ride. There's room on top and room inside." Many occupations and roles traditionally occupied by men became available and open for women during World War One, with so much of the male population involved in the war effort. This card is one such example circa 1917

Man making a photographic contact print in an office, ca. 1909

Care of Stock and Other Valuable Information, Farming

Gare de l'Est small merchants. Small merchant installed in front of a hairdresser, 10th arrondissement, Paris, 1914-1918 Anonymous. Gare de l'Est small merchants. Small merchant installed in front of a hairdresser, 10th arrondissement, Paris, 1914-1918. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1914-1918.

Coram Soap Manufacturing Co.. Coram Soap Manufacturing Co.

March Secondment (registered title) | News. (Title of the whole)

Greeley, Gambon, Zink , Offices, Telephones, Metropolitan Transit Authority Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Office assistant Guido Glantz in Gamleby Station.

"I say, Hans dont forgot again to get dot Vacuum Harness Oil, I must limber up my boots up and fix the old harness.. "I say, Hans dont forgot again to get dot Vacuum Harness Oil, I must limber up my boots up and fix the old harness.

A young woman sits writing at a table using a pen which she dips in an inkwell from time to time. Date: 1926

This photograph shows a switchboard operator at the Erie Proving Ground in Fort Clinton, Ohio during World War One. The image captures the installation of telephone systems at the military facility. The operator is seen working at a switchboard, managing calls and connections.

Employment Bureau 1633 Abraham Bosse French. Employment Bureau 390003

Locksmiths; Professions. Two locksmiths at work in a workplace.

C. J. Kino. Tailor, 40 West Strand and 164 Fenchurch St., London , Children, Tailors, Textiles, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Pakroller steals from a man standing in front of the window of a print trade, Anonymous, 1800 - 1899 print paper pickpocket. counter ~ shop. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

The New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass.. The New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass.

Worker in the lamp industry in Berlin, fitter, Germany, 1890, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Testing Candidates for the Post of Milk Sourer at a Cream Cheese Factory. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans 1920

Unemployed shoeshine boy in London, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Electric AB Magnet, Ludvika. Office worker.

Women trimming and stacking currency sheets at the Bureau of Engraving & Printing | Library of Congress

Smiling sitting man behind a desk, The London Stereoscopic Company, 1854 - 1880 glass. cardboard. photographic support. zegel rand: paper albumen print historical persons. sitting figure

Illustration showing a group of top-hatted traders doing business at the desks of the London Coal Exchange, 1890. Date: 29 March 1890

Above His Business. "Shoemaker, stick to your last.". Unknown

The new hotel of beans (registered title) | News. (Title of the set)

Women operators in a Paris telephone exchange. Dated 1901

French satirical illustration showing a rich employer with Havana cigars talking to a despairing poor employee

Seamstresses manufacture hats around a table in a decor ..

Up to the Minute News, Electronics - Radio & Wireless

A hint to organized labor - Political Cartoon shows a well-dressed man labeled "Walking Delegate" wearing sandwich boards that state "Notice to Businessmen - This is to certify that the Labor Trust, like all other Trusts, has been duly Incorporated"; a paper on the fence behind him states "Strike Order". On the left, in the background, is a factory. 1902

Marjo at a counter. Marjo stands with a stop with a letter. There is a man with glasses behind the counter.

Inventor Thomas Edison Working at Desk

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