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A man identified as George Bock is standing beside the frame and large wheels of an unfinished wagon. His brother Emil Bock is visible in the rear of the shop, standing behind other unfinished wagon frames. Several large wheels and other frame parts…

Wallace Row has been identified as a time keeper with the Illinois Central Rail Road. He is standing at the right in the photograph. He is using a typewriter-like machine, perhaps an adding machine, that types onto a narrow roll of paper. Behind and…

Two employees, a man dressed in a grey suit and a woman dressed in a long dark skirt and high-necked white blouse, are posing next to four displays of wallpaper in floral, leaf, and vine patterns. Behind the employees may be seen a large rack full of…

Large sample books of wallpaper, open to flower designs, are displayed on racks at the front of a long, narrow room. Two men are standing among the display racks. Behind them is a woman standing in a glass-enclosed work area. Near her is a sign that…

A male customer, possibly one of the photographers, is standing with his back to the camera at a counter in this office. He appears to be filling out a paper form. Four women and two men are seated at desks on the other side of the counter, while…

A man, possibly Lawrence J. Whelan or Frank M. Whelan, wearing a vest and bow tie stands behind the counter at Whelan Bros. Grocers, 159 South Bluff. A box of 24 packages of Washington Crisps Corn from United Cereal Mills Ltd. sits on the floor in…

A young man is seated at a long work table. On the table are a telephone, notebooks and a few papers. An intercom speaker appears to be suspended over the table. Another man is working at a roll-top desk next to the window at the rear of the office.…

A man dressed in dark colored overhauls and wearing a hat is standing near several large bunches of bananas that have been hung from the ceiling of a warehouse room. Additional banana bunches are visible in the rear of the space. A wooden barrel may…

A woman sits at a roll-top desk in an unidentified office in the B & I Building. There is a typewriter in front of her and a mimeograph machine on a table behind her. The number “124” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is…

Standing in the center of a small office space, a woman is entering figures into a calculating machine placed on a rolling cart. A lengthy strip of narrow paper extends from the machine toward the floor. Beside her to the right, another woman is…