Office Collection (page 17)

Find the Fault card No. 21 -- office desk. circa 1930s

The Collectors Office, 1615 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1636). Flemish painter. The Collectors Office, after 1615. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Teatro Solis, Montevideo, Uruguay, South America
Solis Hotel, Teatro Solis (theatre and cinema) and Diario del Plata (newspaper office), Montevideo, Uruguay, South America

Two police officers working in a station, London
Two police officers working in a London police station. The WPC is Maureen (Mo) Dennison. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers working in a station, London
Two women police officers working in a London police station, looking in a book. One of them is Maureen (Mo) Dennison (right). Date: circa 1950s

CS Winifred Barker and Superintendent Shirley Becke
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Woman police officer on the phone in a police station
Woman police officer (Maggie Coombs) on the telephone in a police station. Date: circa late 1970s

Barbara Denis de Vitre, Assistant HMI, visiting Germany
Assistant HMI (His/Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary) Barbara Denis de Vitre, on a postwar visit to Germany, where she was an expert consultant on the employment of women in the German police

Barbara Denis de Vitre, Assistant HMI, Stuttgart, Germany
Assistant HMI (His/Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary) Barbara Denis de Vitre, on a postwar visit to Germany, where she was an expert consultant on the employment of women in the German police

Chief Superintendent Winifred Barker in her office
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Typing Pool 1960S
Typists working away at their electric typewriters in the company Typing Pool. Date: late 1960s

Bohdan Chmielnicki
BOHDAN CHMIELNICKI Russian military commander, hetman of the Cossacks and duke of Ukraine : he carries a mace as symbol of his office. Date: 1593 - 1657

1960S TYPIST
A typist (or perhaps the secretary or the Receptionist) at Barnabys Picture Library types out a letter on Company letterheaded paper. Date: 1960s

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York
Immigrants await their turn at the Naturalisation Office, New York, America

Man in an office with an Exidy Sorcerer computer and word processor. Date: circa late 1970s

Boulevard de Paris, Casablanca, Morocco
Boulevard de Paris with post office (left) and Citroen showroom (right), Casablanca, Morocco. Date: circa 1920

Office of American Express Company - 6 Haymarket, London. Date: circa 1912

Advert for Maple & Co. library table & chair 1904
Library table, finely carved with lift-up flap exposing deep well fitted pigeon-holes and ten drawers, stationery rack with fall-down flap comes with back chair in marone morocco. Date: 1904

London Life party in the GPO Tower 1966
Guests at a party thrown by short-lived by hip and happening magazine, London Life at the top of the newly-built GPO (Post Office) Tower in May 1966

Delivery of paper for newsprint, Fleet Street, London
Delivery of large rolls of paper for newsprint outside The Sun premises in Fleet Street, London. Date: circa 1970s

Mumbai - Triumphal Arch / Elphinstone Circle / Post Office
Mumbai - The Triumphal Arch at Colaba, The illuminations on the Elphinstone Circle, the illuminations on the General Post Office and the illuminations on the Offices of the Public Works Department

Page in an ATS recruitment leaflet, WW2
Page in an ATS recruitment leaflet, showing women taking part in recreations -- in the NaFI, sport, and dances. Date: 1940s

Capital Commercial College, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
Advertisement on a postcard for the Capital Commercial College, Main Avenue, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, with a large group of young men and women posing for their photo outside the building

Cartoon, Laugh It Off Annual
Cartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee

Four people in a car outside a Post Office
Four people sitting inside a car outside a Post Office with their picnic things set out. Date: circa 1930s

WW1 - American Neutrality
WW1 - Discussion in office regarding Americas initial neutrality in the war. The text with the illustration is purposefully written in an American dialect to emphasise their relaxed attitude towards

Maytham Road, Rolvenden Layne, Kent
Maytham Road, Rolvenden Layne, Ashford, near Tenterden, Kent, England. Showing Post Office & Stores Date: 1900s

Post Office, Silecroft, Cumbria
Post Office, Silecroft, Millom, near Broughton in Furness, Cumbria, England. Proprietor George Tomlinson Date: 1916

China - Gate of British Legation, Peking
Lantern slide of Gate of British Legation, Peking (Beijing). In diplomacy, a legation was a diplomatic representative office lower than an embassy

Sydney, Australia - General Post Office
Slide showing a photograph of the General Post Office in Sydney. It is located at the western end of Martin Place. Designed by colonial architect James Barnet

WWI Poster, War Loan, Invest Five Shillings
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, War Loan, Invest Five Shillings and help your country to win. Date: 1916

Cornishmen at the Central Recruiting Office, WW1
Scenes outside the Central Recruiting Office in Whitehall where around 200 Cornish men had travelled to London in order to enlist under the Derby Scheme in 1915

Crowds gathered outside War Office in August 1914, WW1
Scene outside the War Office in Whitehall, London following the declaration of war in August 1914. Note the ubiquity of the straw boater among the men gathered there. Date: 1914

The Chilehaus (Chile House), Hamburg, Germany
The Chilehaus (Chile House), a ten-storey office building in Hamburg, Germany, an example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture. Date: 1930s

Suffragette Arson Bristol. A view of the W.S.P.U shop office in Bristol, wrecked by the University students 24th October 1913

WW2 Poster -- ATS Carry The Messages
ATS Carry The Messages. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph by Beverley Pick, published by HMSO. Date: 1940

WW2 Poster -- Come Back to the Army and the ATS
Come Back to the Army and the ATS while the Bounty Scheme still operates. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph, artist unknown, published by HMSO. Date: 1939

WW2 Poster -- Auxiliary Territorial Service
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the new womens service, recruitment poster. Colour photolithograph, artist unknown, published by HMSO. Showing a woman in uniform blowing a bugle. Date: 1940

Tyneham House
The deserted Tyneham House, in the village of Tyneham, on the Dorset coast. The village and surrounding area was commandeered by the War Office in late 1943, to be used as firing ranges

The Davon patent brass spotting telescope, WW1
The Davon patent brass spotting telescope (War Office Broad Arrow), boxed by Broadhurst & Clarkson & Co, 83 Farringdon Road, London

Leagues of Nation with silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
A page from The Bystander (its regular Bystander in Occupation column) with silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley showing an English soldier marrying a German woman

The Flatiron building at night. Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York. Built in 1902. Date: 1900s

Patriotic British postcard, girl with doll, WW1
First World War patriotic postcard, showing a little girl standing by a red pillar box, about to post her (male) doll to Lord Kitchener at the War Office

Seoul, Korea - Gyeongseong Government (Central) Post Office - no longer standing. Date: 1930s

City Investing Building, New York, New York, USA
A fabulous postcard view of the City Investing Building, New York, New York, USA - erected in 1908, and razed (sadly) in 1968. Date: 1910s

Mehmet Munir Ertegun - Turkish Ambassador to the US
Mehmet Munir Ertegun (1883-1944) - Turkish Ambassador to the US at his desk in Washington DC. The Father of the Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun

WW1 - A ward car of an Ambulance Train built by the Caledonian Railway Company, on the order of the War Office, for conveyance of Wounded British soldiers in France from the Front to the Channel

Georgetown, Guyana - (from left:) Hand in Hand Insurance Company Building (still standing), the Tower Hotel, the post office and the G Club building. Date: circa 1901

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