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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…

Four women are seated at a long work table in a warehouse room. One is holding a bag under a small funnel at the base of a large machine. On the side of the machine, above the woman’s head, is a scale enclosed in a metal box with a glass window. …