What were the offices like a hundred years ago

We all know what a typical office looks like today — desks with computers, office equipment, a water cooler... Someone is lucky to work in their own office, someone suffers from noise in an open space office. Many representatives of the office fraternity like to consider the unusual interiors in which the lucky employees of such giants as Google and the like work. In any case, the office is a familiar and familiar "living environment"for us. But what did they look like a hundred years ago? How much has changed in the last century? Let's find out together by taking a look at this collection of old photos, which depict the offices of various companies and government agencies of the early XX century.

Office of the freight transportation company, 1911.

L. L. May Company, 1911.

Editorial board of the Statesman Journal, 1913.

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Swift & Co office, Denver, 1917.

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Office of the Gaint Clothes Store, 1912.

Brokerage house, 1910.

Salida, Co, 1911.

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Worcester Railway Station, 1914.

Finance Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department, 1910.

L. L. May company office, 1911.

Accounting department of the National Lead Co., 1917.

Dr. Tichnors Antiseptic Co, New Orleans, 1917.

Headquarters of the Elmer Candy Co., 1917.

Roebuck & Co, Chicago, 1913.

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Office of the Judicial Department, Cincinnati, 1914.

Sedalia Music Store, 1914.

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Accounts Chamber of the First National Bank of the United States, 1915.

War Risk Insurance Bureau, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1917.

Customs Department, Washington, 1910.

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Waconia Patriot newspaper Editor's Office, 1915.

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Interior of the Council Bluffs Savings Bank, 1915.

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Santa Fe Railroad Department office, 1911.

White Brothers Hardwood Lumber Company office, San Francisco, 1910.