Office Collection

Royal Navy recruitment poster. Stokers required, no previous experience necessary, age 18 to 25 years. Apply to the Royal Navy Recruiting Office, Naval Base, Great Yarmouth

Provost Marshals Office, Aquia Creek, February 1863. Creator: Alexander Gardner
Provost Marshals Office, Aquia Creek, February 1863. Albumen print, pl. 46 from the album " Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume I" (1866)

The Staff of the October Revolution, 1934. Artist: Vasili Svarog
The Staff of the October Revolution, 1934. Found in the collection of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO, Moscow

WW2 Poster -- ATS Eyes Of The Guns
ATS Eyes Of The Guns. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph by Beverley Pick, published by HMSO. Showing women helping with anti-aircraft defence. Date: 1940

British Military Poster - Inter-war period
Smart Men Wanted, rates of pay for soldiers enlisted or re-enlisted, Scots Guards, on or after 26 October 1925. Coloured chromolithograph recruitment poster after A W Baylis, 1925

Geological map of the British Islands. 1941

WW2 Poster -- You are wanted too! Join the ATS
You Are Wanted Too! Join The ATS. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph by unknown artist, published by HMSO

German propaganda poster, WW1
German propaganda poster, encouraging women to work in the Home Army during the First World War, for example by working in munitions factories to make grenades for soldiers to use. Date: 1914-1918

Fitzalan Square, Sheffield showing (left) General Post Office, Bakers Hill; (centre)
Sheffield City Archives co Media Storehouse Buildings and streets

Army Recruitment Poster, 1960s
See what todays army offers you! Get the facts at your nearest Army Information Office. Recruitment poster, British Army, 1960-1969. Date: 1969

Mary Harris at her desk in the Mary Harris dress factory at the Team Valley Trading Estate, Newcastle. April 1967

The Lutine Bell in the Underwriting Room at Lloyds of London, 1933, (1935). Creator: Unknown
The Lutine Bell in the Underwriting Room at Lloyds of London, 1933, (1935). The SS L Atlantique was insured by Lloyds for almost £ 1, 000, 000

British Military Poster - Inter-war period
Grenadier Guards, smart men wanted. Colour chromolithograph poster after A W Baylis, 1927. Published by HMs Stationery Office

Haymarket, Sheffield, 1937
Elevated view of Haymarket looking towards Fitzalan Square and General Post Office. Norfolk Market Hall, left, No 32, Castle Street, Arthur Davy and Sons Ltd, Provision Merchants

The Census at Bethlehem (oil on canvas)
XIR227275 The Census at Bethlehem (oil on canvas) by Bruegel, Pieter the Elder (c.1525-69) (after); 112x163 cm; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille

Blythe House - Post Office Savings Bank, West Kensington
Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington - originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank (as shown on this card)

Dublin / O connell Street
The famous thoroughfare of O Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland, with the Post Office on the left and Nelsons Column in the centre. Date: early 1930s

Territorial Army poster - Inter-war period
For England and Freedom! Join the Territorial Army. Recruitment poster Number 8. Chromolithograph after Lance Cattermole, published by His Majestys Stationery Office, 1938. Date: 1938

Farrows Bank Ltd. - The Peoples Bank - 1 Cheapside, London. In setting up the bank, Thomas Farrow wished not only that unsuspecting people in need of money to tide them over a period of temporary

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik leader, in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, October 1918. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Windmill Hill, Ballyholme - a street scene with the post office on the right (with assembled people) and the windmill to the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Bangor)

Sir Charles Cox, Vanity Fair, Spy
CHARLES COX (1810-1892) Held various positions in the Colonial Office between 1829 and 1879. Caption: Colonial Date: 1810 - 1892

NFS 60ft hand-operated turntable ladder, WW2
An Austin K4-Merryweather 60 foot hand-operated turntable ladder (TL). A total of 50 such appliances were built and mounted on Austin K4 chassis for the Home Office between 1942 and 1943

Advert for The Ford Typewriter. 1902

Liverpool manager Bob Paisley pictured on the terraces at Anfield shortly after taking over from Bill Shankly. 20th July 1974

Your Britain - Fight for it NOW - World War 2 public information Poster designed by Abram Games for the War Office - first published in 1942. Date: 1942

Horrockses, Crewdson & Co Ltd, Preston, Lancashire, office and factory -- trade design. 1920

Bomb Disposal - Join the Territorials now! Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, 1990 (c).Published by Armed Forces Careers Office. Date: circa 1990

The Village, Glangrwyney, Crickhowell, Wales
The Village, Glangrwyney, Crickhowell, near Abergavenny, Breconshire, Wales. Showing Great Western Railway Station Parcels Receiving Office and the Blue Bell Inn. Date: 1904

Women WW1 Land Army
A poster recruiting for the Womens Land Army, showing a land girl feeding a horse and foal. Proclaiming, National Service

St. Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lions Paw, c
XAL178985 St. Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lions Paw, c.1445 (oil on panel) (see 178986 for detail) by Colantonio, Niccolo Antonio (fl.1455-62); Museo e Gallerie Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples

Skyline of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Citroen XM French

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England, London, Westminster, New Scotland Yard building headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service in 8-10 Broadway

Good jobs. Good money. Good times. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by Her Majesty?s Stationery Office, 1973. Printed by Impress Limited, 1973

Custom House and Post Office, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. Date: 1905

Main Street and Post Office, Gibraltar, on a busy day. Date: 1910s

Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916
Army Post Office in Regents Park, was receiving a rate of half a million parcels for Christmas a day for the soldiers in the trenches

Interior of first postbox, London
Interior of the first Post Office letter box in London which was installed at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street, at the foot of Ludgate Hill. Date: 1855

The Post Office and Library, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight. Date: circa 1910

USA-Ohio-Cincinnati: City Skyline along the Ohio River / Late Afternoon
USA, Ohio, Cincinnati: City Skyline along the Ohio River / Late Afternoon

USA-Indiana-Indianapolis: Downtown- Soldiers & Sailors Monument / Monument Circle
USA, Indiana, Indianapolis: Downtown, Soldiers & Sailors Monument / Monument Circle

Skyline of Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

Tribune Tower, the 1920s Gothic skyscraper and home to the Chicago Tribune in downtown Chicago, and Hotel Intercontinental behind, Chicago, Illinois, USA, North America

Tabby Cat - on office desk with files & phone
JD-18386 CAT - Tabby kitten on office desk with files and phone John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

LCC-LFB Holloway fire station appliance room
Station 76 was Holloway fire station, North London, located in Mayton Street, opened in 1907. Here its self propelled pump and pump-escape stand ready in the appliance room

The Woolworth Building, Manhattan, New York, USA

View From Q1 Skyscraper, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

The Lawyer's Office, 1628. Creator: Pieter de Bloot
The Lawyer's Office, 1628

Isle of Harris Post Office, Scotland

The dissection course of the doctor Claude Bernard (1813-1878) (with the apron
JLJ4677066 The dissection course of the doctor Claude Bernard (1813-1878) (with the apron) in the presence of his pupils Paul Bert (1833-1886) and Arsonvals Arsene (1851-1940)

Roy Tempest, Theatrical Agent, London, 21st April 1964

Nick Davies foreign editor of the Daily Mirror talks to Nick Fullagar. 28th October 1991

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Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Bitexco Financial Tower modern office block

GWR Wartime Emergency Headquarters in Berkshire, 1940
A busy office scene pictured here in 1940. This office was part of the GWRs Emergency Headquarters located at Aldermaston, Berkshire

Walter Gropius office, 1924. Main building, Bauhaus-University Weimar (1904-1911), Germany, 2018. Architect: Henry van de Velde. UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996)

The Black Boy pub, Dunsden, Oxfordshire
Taken early 20th cent. Still standing and known now as Black Boy Cottage. At this time also doubling up (very common for the period) as the village post office. Date: early 1900s

POSTER, c1940. Yes, of course, ring up the capacity office about it. Poster by Fougasse, c1940

Young man in a suit and without shirt lying on a couch

Young man in a suit and without shirt kneeling on a couch

Peter Sellers and Ian Carmichael
as Fred Kite and Stanley Windrush in I m All Right Jack (1959)

Empress State Building JLP01_08_062727
EMPRESS STATE BUILDING, Lillie Road, Earls Court, HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM, GREATER LONDON. The newly completed Empress State Building, Earls Court, London

Great Eastern Railways Locomotive works at Stratford
A view along the north side of the Great Eastern Railway?s Locomotive works at Stratford (East London) May 1864 with William Henry Maw, then Head of the Drawing office

Medical Fund Society Offices, c. 1930
Behind the scenes at Swindons GWR Medical Fund, a range of work was undertaken including record keeping in the Societys offices on Milton Road

Dickenss Dombey and Son - pain and amazement
Vintage engraving of a scene from Charles Dickens Dombey and Son. During this conversation, Walter had looked from one brother to the other with pain and amazement

Platform of Post Office (St. Paul s) Underground Station
Central Line Series. A smart lady, exhausted messenger boy and down-on-his-luck punter seated on a bench on the platform of St

Loelia Ponsonby and the Duke of Westminster
Hugh ( Bendor ) Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, with Loelia Ponsonby who he would marry at Princes Row Register Office in London, 20th February 1930

Copper Miners Strike - Calumet, Michigan, USA. Industrial action by Copper Miners of the Western Federation of Miners. Workers were concerned of being displaced to a lower-paying job or of losing

Royal Liver Building
The Royal Liver Building was built in 1911, and is still the head office for the Royal Liver Friendly Society. A pair of liver bird statues sit atop each clock tower. Date: 1960s

Australia Sydney Central Business District landmarks around Sydney Harbour view from Waverton
Sydney, Australia. Amazing skyline on morning

Panoramic view of St Kilda Pier Melbourne
Several Boats docked in front of the Melbourne Skyline

View Of Hillbrow Tower & City Skyline, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa

New York City skyline with illuminated skyscrapers seen from above during sunrise, New York State, USA

Sunrise over Foggy Portland Oregon
Sunrise over City of Portland Oregon and Mount Hood Covered in Low Fog Banks

COLONIAL PLANTER. A tobacco planter relaxing at his estate in colonial Virginia, early 18th century. Illustration, 1896, after Howard Pyle

The Taipei 101 skyscraper tower, Taipei, Taiwan

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Redcar Steelworks, South Bank Coke Ovens, South Bank, Redcar and Cleveland, Teesside, North Yorkshire. Detail of filing cabinets in the archives office on the first floor of the coke oven offices at

Platform at Rugby railway station, Warwickshire, England
Down platform at Rugby railway station, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1894

Arthur Russell, who retires from the Liverpool Echo today, outside the newspapers office. 27th April 1990

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vietnam, ho chi minh city, post office interior depicting glass canopy and iron framed roof

Nelsons Pillar and The General Post Office O Connell St, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Saigon, Vietnam - The Hotel des Postes (Central Post Office) - designed by Architect Marie-Alfred Foulhoux (1840-1892). Date: circa 1910s

The Hudson Motor Company - Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: 1910s

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"Unveiling the Power of the Office: A Historical Journey through Posters and Landscapes" Step into the captivating world of offices as we explore their significance throughout history. From a Royal Navy recruitment poster to a German propaganda poster during WW1, these hints offer glimpses into the diverse roles that offices have played in society. Intriguingly, an inter-war period British military poster reminds us of how offices were crucial hubs for strategic planning and coordination. Meanwhile, a geological map of the British Islands highlights how scientific knowledge was harnessed within office walls to understand our natural surroundings. Shifting our focus to politics, we encounter Vladimir Ilich Lenin in his Kremlin office in Moscow during October 1918. This snapshot captures the intensity and determination that often emanated from political leaders working behind closed doors. During World War II, an eye-catching poster questions whether every journey taken is truly necessary - reminding us that even mundane tasks can be essential when executed efficiently from within an office setting. Similarly, Dublin's O'Connell Street showcases bustling city life with its array of shops and offices serving as vital economic centers. Examining another inter-war period Territorial Army poster reveals how individuals were encouraged to serve their country by joining this reserve force - highlighting yet another facet of office-based operations within military structures. Nature enthusiasts will appreciate Windmill Hill in Ballyholme; its serene landscape serves as a reminder that even amidst urbanization, pockets of tranquility exist where one can escape from daily office routines. Fast-forwarding to the 1960s brings us face-to-face with an army recruitment poster capturing both adventure and camaraderie associated with military service - emphasizing how offices served as gateways for young men seeking purposeful careers beyond civilian life. Haymarket in Sheffield transports us back to 1937; bustling streets lined with shops and businesses remind us that vibrant commercial districts are at heart extensions of countless interconnected offices.