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Antique Office Photographs 
~ 1912-1914 ~ 

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	Office with vault, Iowa, 1912.  The vault is through the elaborate doorway at the rear of the room.  There is a Protectograph check protector on the high desk and a Burroughs Adding Machine next to the desk.  A wall calendar advertises the City National Bank of Clinton, Iowa.  This may be an office in that bank, or in a branch of that bank.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office with eleven typists using Bar-Lock typewriters, England, 1912. Dated by wall calendar.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Correspondence Division, Circulation Department, Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA, postcard, postmarked 1912. Cyrus H. K. Curtis began a publishing business in Philadelphia in 1876 and started publishing The Ladies Home Journal in 1883. In 1890, Curtis formed the Curtis Publishing Co. and took over publication of The Saturday Evening Post. On left, workers, virtually all male, are using dictating machines. On right, other workers, all female, are using transcription machines and typewriters.	Early Office  Museum Archives
	Order Entry Department, Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, IL, c. 1913. Workers are using Oliver typewriters.	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History.
	Accounting Department, C. G. Conn's Band Instrument Factory, Elkhart, IN, 1913.  C. G. Conn and its successor company, Conn-Selmar, a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, have produced band instruments since 1875. Click here and here to read the company history.  There are two Burroughs adding machines in the office.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office of the Statesman Journal, Salem, OR, c.1913. Co-owner Carl Abrams reads at desk on far right while Mrs. Abrams types at a roll-top desk center and O.K. DeWitt, smoking a cigar, reads copy.	Salem Public Library Historic Photograph Database, Salem Public Library, Salem, Oregon, Record No. SJ790.
	Office of Gaint Clothes Store, Muskegon, MI, photograph by Ladd & Son. There is a Comptometer Model A calculating machine (sold 1904-06) in front of the woman on the left. The man behind her is working on a Burroughs Class 1 Adding Machine.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office interior, Denver, Colorado. 1914. Photograph includes a letter copying press and a safe with the lettering "The Colorado Mattress Factory" and "The Sharpiot Safe Co., Denver, Colo."	Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, William W. Cecil Collection, codhawp 10001445.
	Office at agricultural business, Ewing, MO, 1914. Large sign on desk reads "W. K. Boudreau, Ewing, MO." Date is from wall calendar advertising a St. Louis, MO, grain merchant. Other advertisements on wall are for seed and a livestock merchant. There are two wall telephones.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office with two seated men, a pigeon hole filing system, and a large letter copying press.	Early Office Museum Archives
	County Commissioners' office in Court House, probably Cincinnati, OH, 1914. Date and location are from a wall calendar advertising a Cincinnati, OH, business.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office at Sedalia Music Store, Sedalia, MO, 1914. Office contains a roll-top desk, safe, Oliver typewriter, and letter copying press. Ragtime pianist Scott Joplin was active in Sedalia around 1900.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Barber County Tax Office, Medicine Lodge, KS, 1914.  Barber County is located in southcentral Kansas, near the border with Oklahoma.  Three ledgers on the counter have the title "Tax Roll 1914 Barber County."  A Baby Defiance Check Protector, which was advertised during 1902-15, is on the counter in front of the woman.  A Burroughs adding-listing machine is on a stand front right in the photo..	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office with two women working at a long desk, 1914.  There is a Hotchkiss No. 1 stapler on the desk, an interesting file cabinet, and a set of three glass front sectional bookcases.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office with several women working with ledgers, Rochester, NY, 1914.  Located and dated by wall calendars, one of which advertises the Amsden Kalbfleisch Insurance Co. and the other Dutton's Insurance Office.  Both of these companies were insurance agencies in Rochester, NY.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Two women in office. The woman at the right is using a manual adding machine, perhaps a Burroughs Class 3. Above the elbow of the woman at the left is a Universal check protector manufactured by the Universal Manufacturing Co., Boston, MA. On a post on the right edge of the image is a Dexter Pencil Sharpener, a machine that was introduced in 1914 by the Automatic Pencil Sharpener Co., Chicago, IL.	Early Office Museum Archives
	Office with three men and lots of papers.	Early Office Museum Archives
	General Offices, Franco-American Hygienic Company, Chicago, IL.  The company manufactured and distributed perfumes and toilet articles.  There is a Burroughs adding machine front right in the photo.	Early Office Museum Archives
	"Bookkeeping Department, National Benefit Association, Washington, DC," c. 1911-1916.	Kelly Miller & Joseph R. Gay. Progress and Achievements of the Colored People, 1913, 1917.  In Early Office Museum Archives.
	"Stenography in a Well Equipped Office," c. 1911-1916.  The two typists are using Oliver typewriters.	Kelly Miller & Joseph R. Gay. Progress and Achievements of the Colored People, 1913, 1917.  In Early Office Museum Archives.
	"A Prominent Lawyer Presenting his Case to Judge R. H. Terrell, who is a Colored Judge of a Municipal Court in Washington, DC," 1911 or 1916.  Assuming the photograph was taken in the 1910s, it was taken in 1911 or 1916 because a wall calendar shows that September began on Friday.	Kelly Miller & Joseph R. Gay. Progress and Achievements of the Colored People, 1913, 1917.  In Early Office Museum Archives..
	Office with twenty men and one woman, who is at a typewriter.  The men toward the rear of the room and the men visible through the door are working at standing or book-keepers' desks.	Early Office  Museum Archives
	Offices, "Railroad Station, Worcester."  These two photos show different areas in which the desks, light fixtures, and paneling match.  The two photos show 23 men, most of whom are working at large partner desks, and 3 women, one of whom is at a typewriter. The top photo contains a map of the New York Central Lines.  The bottom photo contains a calendar advertising Northwestern Mutual.	Early Office Museum Archives
General Office Service Department Statistics Department File Room	Interiors of four offices at the Alexander Hamilton Institute (AHI), New York, NY.  The AHI, which was founded in 1906, sold books designed to enable businessmen to study business subjects at their homes and offices without going to a college.  The books were also used in some business colleges.  AHI advertisements had a motivational, self-help message. Three of the photographs include APSCO Dexter Pencil Sharpeners, which were introduced in 1914. The AHI still exists, but its orientation has changed.  It now sells to employers services relating to labor relations.	Early Office Museum Archives

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