A man and woman sit at a desk in an unidentified office in the B & I Building. The woman is writing in a stenographers’ notebook and the man is holding a pencil and is looking at a paper. The shade of a large window behind them is pulled shut. A…
A man sits, looking at a piece of paper, in a small, unidentified office in the B & I Building. There is a table in front of him—in the foreground—and a roll-top desk behind him. A Journal titled, “Merchants Trade Journal,” and a telephone directory…
A woman sits in front of an open ledger at a roll-top desk and is posed looking at the camera. A man holding a telephone leans on the frame of a window that connects this office with the next. The man has been identified as possibly being Albert M.…
A man and woman work at a table in a Martin-Strelau Company office. The walls are bare except for a Coates and Robinson calendar (open to June, 1912) hanging by a wire from a picture rail. The back side of a roll top desk can be seen at left. A long…
Three women are working at typewriters in an unidentified office in the B & I Building. A large map of Iowa hangs on the wall at left below a transom window. A door is in the center of the rear wall and a window is at right. The number “111” has…
Guido Beck stands, working at a table at left, while a second man stands, working with a triangle and t-square, at another table at right in this office at 815 Main Street. There are books, including one labeled "Farley & Loetscher Co.," stacks of…
Three men are working in a studio at the Dubuque Advertising Company, rooms 421-423 of the B & I Building. The man at center is seated at an easel working on a poster for the Dubuque Mattress Factory. A second man is standing behind him, and is…
Two men stand, pressing partially finished clothing, at a table on sawhorses in the foreground, while a man and 3 women sit at tables and sewing machines in the back of a workroom in Fred Doerrmann’s tailor shop. Both sewing machines appear to be…
Fred Doerrmann and one of the itinerant photographers stand, looking at sample books, in the front room of Mr. Doerrmann’s tailor shop, rooms 621-627 of the B & I Building. There is a woman’s jacket on a tailor’s, or dressmaker's, dummy and several…
An elderly man holding an insurance policy sits at a small roll top desk in an office in the B & I Building. On top of the desk is a box with the label, “Old Age Deferred.” Pinned to the door of the office is a two page magazine spread of photographs…