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A gentleman identified as agent Carl Kiesele is seated at a table near a window in a narrow office. On one end of the room is a microphone, switches and other devices for announcing train arrivals and departures. Behind Mr. Kiesele is a wooden…

This image is of a two-room office suite. The rooms are separated by a window and a door. One secretary is seated in the rear room and looking through the window at the camera. In the front room, a businessman is sitting at a table facing the…

The photograph was taken looking across a wooden railing into a two-desk office space. A doorway separates the desks. A barrister's bookcase that appears to contain stacks of forms or cards stands along the wall next to the nearer desk while a large…

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…

This photograph is of two men sitting at desks in an office. The walls and ceiling are covered with narrow, horizontal and vertical paneling that is finished in a dark stain. Many photographs and calendars are hung on the walls. June 1912 calendars…

This photograph shows four women sewing substantial pieces of heavy fabric on industrial sewing machines equipped with large spools of white thread. Piles of canvas are haphazardly scattered on racks and on the wooden floor of the spartan warehouse…

Seven men are working on mattresses at the Dubuque Mattress Factory, 63-77 West Main Street. Five mattresses are lined up on individual tables at left and rolls of dense batting and more mattresses are stacked at right. The number “64” has been…

A butcher is standing behind the counter and is writing in a notebook. On the counter are several cuts of meat and a large scale that is labeled, “The Computing Scale Co.—Dayton, Ohio, USA.” Sausages and various cuts of meat hang on hooks on either…

Two men, Ed Majerus at left and possibly John O’Rourke at right, stand in the Majerus Grocery Store at 475 Clay Street. These products are visible in the store: a crate full of heads of lettuce or cabbage, Jell-O gelatin, Welch’s Grape Juice, Argo…

The photograph was taken from one end of a long, wooden counter with stools for customers on one side. Two waitresses and one waiter stand behind the counter. Another waiter stands behind a table at right. A man, a woman and a child pose in the…