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John Atkins, Mayor
JOHN ATKINS Lord Mayor of London, 1819, in his robe of office. Date: CIRCA 181

Station Masters Office
The Station Master in his office at Warden Central with the coat of arms for Midland and South Eastern Railway on the door Date: 1960s

Mail-Coach Leaving
With letters and packets for Brighton, the mail-coach leaves the General Post Office, London Date: circa 1840s

Commerce / Shares
A stockbrokers office during the Railway Mania when people were falling over themselves to buy shares in the new railways in Britain Date: circa 1850

Employment of Women
A satirical look at the employment of women in the civil service. A bespectacled gentleman returns to the office and is horrified to find the ladies of his employ making pyramids of books

Butterick Publishing, New York
Circulation Dept. Butterick Pub. Co. Group portrait the staff of the Circulation Department at the Butterick Publishing Co.; 2 men amoung 36 women, dressed alike

BRTEBA office
Secretarys Office B.R.T.E.B.A. Interior of the secretarys office of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Employees Benefit Association; two men are sated at desks, calendar for February 19

Book publishers
Book Covers, Walter Dunn Publisher. An office of Walter Dunn, publisher; elaborate chandelier, books and office furniture visible

Steamship offices
Bolognesi, Hartfield & Co. Interior of the main floor of Bolognesi, Hartfield & Co. at 50 Wall Street, steamship agents for the Italian Line

Clothing office
Alfred Benjamin & Co. Office and sample room, clothiers. Office and sample room at Alfred Benjamin &Co. clothiers

Welding equipment
Atlantic Blaugas Co. Painting of three tanks in a cabinet, with meters and tubes; center tank has Atlantic Blaugas Co. logo with a main office address in Manhattan, and a factory a

Delivery boy
Aeolian Co. Portrait, Stephens Delivering Aeolian Magazine. Aeolian Co. Portrait, Stephens Delivering Aeolian Magazine

Payroll staff
Group of Two Men of Payroll Staff. Aeolian Co

Aeolian Employees
Aeolian Co. Mrs. Strange, Group, Governing Board of Aeolian Employees. Aeolian Co. Mrs. Strange, Group, Governing Board of Aeolian Employees

Office workers
Aeolian Co. Workers gathered around a desk

Curious effects of the strike: Unusual scenes in London
Unusual scenes include: a motor-bus used as a recruiting office; a flock of sheep walking down a road in London and volunteer workers improvising a cricket match in Rotten Row

Orange, New South Wales
The Post Office, Orange, New South Wales, Australia

Forbes, New South Wales
The post office in Forbes, New South Wales, Australia

Middlesex House of Correction, Clerkenwell, London
The Middlesex House of Correction, opened in 1794, was later known as Cold Bath Prison, then Clerkenwell Gaol. It became a debtors prison before closing in 1885

Sir Charles Wakefield at National Childrens Home, London
State visit by Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield (1859-1941) and other City of London dignitaries to the London Branch of the National Childrens Homes (NCH), Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, East London

Two Post Office workers waiting for the mail train at a lineside mailbag collection and drop-off point. In the background are railway lines, signals, and a goods train

Origin Species, CH Bennett, man of finance - shark
Alls fish that comes. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of man of finance from a shark. Shark fins have developed into a swallow-tail coat, his own tail into a pair of legs

Foreign Office War Declaration
A letter to Prince Lichnowsky, German ambassador, from Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey at the British Foreign Office informing him of the outbreak of World War One

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Office man - weasel
Catch him asleep. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of an old pen pusher, from a weasel. Sat at his office desk for a generation

Montevideo wartime brochure cover
Cover of souvenir brochure of scenes from Montevideo, Uruguay, from the Municipal Office of Propaganda and Information, to the soldiers of Great Britain, defenders of the liberty of the world

Government Medical Inspectors Office
Emigration - The Government Medical Inspectors Office. As the text describes: No passenger ship is allowed to proceed until a medical practitioner appointed by the emigration office of the port shall

Australian Commonwealth celebrations
The inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1st January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia

Mevagissey coastguard
The uniformed coastguard at Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, sits in his office and takes a phone call, perhaps an emergency call

Metropolitan Police fingerprint database
A man sits at a monitor to look at fingerprints on the Metropolitan Police database

Slate used on office building, Slate Wharf, Caernarfon
Terracotta, yellow brick and Caernarfon slate used on an office building on Slate Wharf in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, North Wales

London County Council Night Office, Charing Cross Bridge
Applicants waiting outside the London County Councils Night Office at Charing Cross Bridge, Central London. The Office had telephone links to the citys casual wards, as well as to the Salvation Army

London County Council welfare staff
Staff in an office at a London County Council welfare establishment interview a homeless man

Printing Office at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway
Printing office at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, East London. In 1870, Thomas Barnardo set up a home for destitute boys at 18-26 Stepney Causeway

Manchester Board of Guardians Offices
The Manchester Board of Guardians Offices at All Saints, Manchester

Hull Poor Law Guardians
A Board of Guardians was elected annually by the ratepayers of Hull, Yorkshire, to administer poor relief in the city. This group portrait of the 1912 Board - all men - was taken in front of the main

Shimla, India - The Telegraph Office
The Telegraph Office at Shimla, originally called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India

Calcutta, India - Telegraph Office

Cherat - North West Frontier Province
Post and Telegraph Office at Cherat - a hill station in Nowshera District in the North West Frontier Province (now Pakistan)

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Information Ministry Building. Photo (33/40) from a fold-out set

Port Said, Egypt - Landing Stage
The landing Stage and the Suez Canal Office at Port Said, Egypt

Georgia - Batumi - The Telegraph Office
The Post Telegraph Office at Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 12 miles from the border with Turkey

Street scene in Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand, showing a tram going past a shop building

The Only Man Left by George Ranstead
Original drawing in pen and ink showing an incredibly young boy suggesting to a (much taller) female office worker that they go to the theatre together but to keep it quiet otherwise the other girls

Modern office building, Berlin, Germany
A modern office building at the Potsdamer Platz metro station in Berlin, Germany

A Laugh between friends - Iran
3 Friends sharing a joke at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran

Start of pennyfarthing ride, Lands End
The start of an NSPCC Centenary pennyfarthing ride from Lands End in Cornwall to John o Groats in Scotland, with two intrepid cyclists and the local mayor

Letterbox at Cranmere Pool, Dartmoor
Two women stand in front of the letterbox at Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, Devon. Cranmere Pool is famous for being the first place on Dartmoor to have a letterbox -- it was established there in 1854

Bavarian State Chancellery, Munich, Germany
View of the Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich, Germany. It contains the office of the Bavarian Prime Minister and the State Government of Bavaria

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