Clerks Collection

National Service Wwi
Poster recruiting women to work as clerks and administrative support to the British Army in France during World War One

Telegraph Office 1900
Around a hundred telegraph clerks are employed in this one room alone at the Central Telegraph Office, London

General Post Office
THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, Lombard Street, London

Telegraph Office 1859
The offices of the Electric and International Telegraph Company in Moorgate Street, London

State Bank of the USSR, 1939
Registering the deposits of Soviet workers in the State Bank of the U.S.S.R in 1939. On the right, depositors can be seen at a counter waiting their turn while men

Interior of ticket office at London Bridge railway station
The interior of the ticket booking office at London Bridge railway station. The clerks serve customers through windows at the right

Court Scene / Newgate / 1862
A trial at Newgate Date: 1862

Gpo Sorting, 1875
The General Post Office, London : stamping and sorting letters

A tea ship, the Loudoun Castle (spelt Louden Castle in the picture), from Hankow, China, commencing unloading ( breaking bulk ). The ship discharged from her vast hold 40, 000 packages of tea

Portraits of the Kings of Persia. Shah Tahmasp 1, Shah Abbas the Great 2, Nadir Shah 3, Mohammad Karim Khan Zand 4. Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar 5 and Fath-Ali Shah Qajar 6. Ritratti di Re de Persia

School Band, Rusell Hill Schools, Purley, Victorian period

Fire Brigade, Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

School band, Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

Fire drill, Rusell Hill Schools, Purley, Victorian period

Fire drill, Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

Gymnastics, Rusell Hill Schools, Purley, Victorian period

Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

Dormitory, Rusell Hill Schools, Purley, Victorian period

Dormitory, Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

Rusell Hill Schools, Purley, Victorian period

Gymnasium, Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

Classroom, Warehousemen and Clerks Schools, Russell Hill, Purley

Writers Building Calcutta, (Kolkata) India c. 1860 s
Writers Building Calcutta, (Kolkata) India c.1860 s. The building served as the offices for the writers or clerks of the East India company

Trial of weights and measures at the exchequer, during the reign of King Henry Vii. A clerk burning measures that didn t come to standard to maintain commercial confidence in trade and penalties

Order Office at Kays Stores 1905
The order office at Kays Universal Stores, Worcester, a mail-order company : these clerks are working in the Shopping By Post department. Date: 1905

Preparing for the War: Recruiting for the Navy in New York. Date: 1898

Department Store Scene Date: 1948

Lockport, New York, USA - County Clerks Office and Jail
Lockport, Niagara County, New York, USA - Niagara County Clerks Office and Jail Date: circa 1910s

Russell Hill School, Purley
Russell Hill School (formerly the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools), Purley, Surrey

Griselda, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales: The Clerks Tale. The marriage of Lord Walter of Saluzzo to Griselda

Wartime drills at the London Stock Exchange, 1940
With the threat of German invasion looming, workers at the London Stock Exchange receive basic military training on the trading floor

Drawing the State Lottery for the last time, 18 October 1826. 1826

Bar-Lock Typewriter Ad
Advertisement implying that one Royal Bar-Lock typewriter will do the work of six pen- pushing clerks Date: 1890s

Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks Orphan Schools, Cheadle Hulme - dining hall laid out with a meal buns and bread and butter. Staff stand at the rear. Date: early 1900s

Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools, Purley Playing Fi
Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools, Purley, Surrey. Girls playing hockey

Dining Hall at Russell School, Addington
Dining Hall interior at Russell School, Addington, near Croydon, formerly known as the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools

Assembly Hall and Chapel Tower at Russell School, Addington, near Croydon, formerly known as the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools

Chapel at Russell School, Addington
Chapel interior at Russell School, Addington, near Croydon, formerly known as the Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Schools

The Last Tea by Higgins
Swiftly fled each honey d hour Spent with military male; Metropole became a bower Cecil an Arcadian vale. A rather mournful female clerical worker or secretary takes her last cup of tea of her

Women working at Prisoners of War Information Bureau, WW1
Women working at the offices of the Prisoners of War Information Bureau, located at 49 Wellington Street, Strand, where are record of all British soldiers who were prisoners of war in Germany were

Changes in Whitehall, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon demonstrating the changes at Whitehall during the First World War, when women replaced men in most of the clerical roles, and the war necessitated the War Offices expansion. Date: 1916

Closing of the Stock Exchange in London at the start of WWI
The prospect of widespread European war naturally brought down stocks and shares with a run, so to prevent further fall, the London banks urged the closing of the Stock Exchange

Office girls drawn by Fish, WW1
Uncle Fred, a character in the Letters of Eve in The Tatler, drawn by Annie Fish, is pictured njoying his time in the office now that girls are taking on wartime clerical roles. Date: 1917

Staff & female motor drivers of Balloon Training Depot, RFC
The staff and lady motor drivers and clerks of the balloon training depot of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Date: 1917

Group photo, 2nd Rawalpindi Division, India
Group photo, men of the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division, Murree, India. A board behind them shows who belongs upstairs and who belongs downstairs. Date: 1913

European Gentleman in Public Office attended by the Crannies, or Native Clerks. (Plate 3 of 20) Date: 1813

The Wreck of the Titanic - Honour to the Brave
Page from the Sphere honouring the brave men who were part of the Titanics crew who were lost with the ship when it sank, including all the engineers (36), the band (8), the postal clerks (5)

Automatic train ticket machine, 1904
A novel idea introduced in 1904 of an automatic booking clerk available at Homerton railway station in East London, enabling early morning workmen to buy a train ticket for 2d by putting money in

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