Two men work in an office at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in rooms 705-708 of the B & I Building. A large fern is set on top of a wooden stand in the foreground at left. A safe is placed against the wall behind the fern. A large framed picture…
A woman sits at a desk in the foreground at left and a man stands at a desk in the background at right in this office at the Dubuque Fire & Marine Insurance Company, rooms 710 to 715 in the B & I Building. There is a telephone and a typewriter on the…
Charles Schrup sits at a roll-top desk in his office at the Dubuque Fire & Marine Insurance Company, rooms 710 to 715 in the B & I Building. Behind him, there are filing cabinets lined against the wall at left. On the back wall is a large pull-down…
Thirteen men are working in this large office at the Dubuque Fire & Marine Insurance Company, rooms 710 to 715 in the B & I Building. Most of the men are working at standing desks. Seven of the men, mostly posed at the back and right of the picture,…
Eight women perform various office tasks while a male supervisor looks on in a crowded, unidentified office in the B & I Building. A letter with A. Y. McDonald letterhead is visible on a table at left. The woman working at a typewriter in the…
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…