Series 168: Office equipment

PXE 731/1331-1352

series

1950s

Graphic Materials, Photographs

412301

22 photographic prints - 21 x 26 cm or smaller - silver gelatin

Depicts women learning secretarial skills and in the workplace engaged in various clerical duties including filing, typing, dictation and also operating different types of machinery such as tabulating and sorting machines. Some images are taken in the Clearing Department Sydney Office of the Commonwealth Bank.

1331. The control clock
1332. Telephone switchboard
1333. Operating a tabulating machine
1334. A clerk operating a comptometer
1335. Accounting machine, Commonwealth Bank
1336. Telephonist using radio telephone
1337. A switchboard
1338. Tape recorder
1339. Opening the mail
1340. Machinists School
1341. Machinists School
1342. Machinists School
1343. Machinists School
1344. A stenographer typing a letter
1345. Miss Gloria Thornton
1346. Commonwealth Bank typist
1347. Clearing Department Sydney Office, Commonwealth Bank, 1 June 1954, Miss Dorrie Smythe
1348. Commonwealth Bank
1349. A ledger clerk
1350. A ledger clerk
1351. Filing cabinets
1352. Putting letter in a file

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Titled from accompanying envelope.

Similar images can be found at PXE 731/490-543.

'Phil Ward Studio, 296 Pitt Street, Sydney' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1335, PXE 731/1345-1348. 'Sydney County Council Photographic Section, Queen Victoria Bldg.' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1336 and PXE 731/1337.

Tear at top left at PXE 731/1339