19 curious photos about how offices looked in the early twentieth century
All offices look approximately the same: a computer desk, an armchair (and whoever is unlucky — a chair), office equipment, a pile of papers, folders with folders. Of course, this is not about corporations such as Facebook, where offices are a real oasis. We at TravelAsk decided to look into the past and see what a regular office looked like a hundred years ago. All these photos were taken at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it seems that little has changed over this century. Is that less paper and instead of a typewriter - a computer.
Office of the transport company.
Edited by one of the major newspapers in the US state of Oregon, the Statesman Journal.
A spacious wardrobe is located near the workplace.
Would you exchange your cozy place for this huge room with dozens of tables? Photo from the Denver company Swift & Co.
Employees at work at L. L. May.
In the office
At work
Employees of the railway station of the English town of Worcester
And these are the Pennsylvania Railroad office workers.
At the office of the American company Roebuck and Company, which was one of the first to sell goods according to catalogs and deliver them by mail
Impressive Cincinnati Judicial Department Officer
In some offices, little has changed in the last hundred years, only equipment has been added
Accountants at National Lead, founded in 1891 and still exist today.
Washington Customs Office
Editor of an American newspaper
Employees at Council Bluffs Savings
White Brothers, San Francisco, 1911
Swift & Company Sales Department, 1910
Smithsonian Insurance Department in Washington
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