A poster mentioned offhand (standing position) shooting being difficult. To the right of the photo are the stations to acommodate such shooting. We see one place in the picture, but there are certainly more available.

That spotting scope appears to be tied to a Graflex Camera Tripod, probably a number one model.

The lack of eye and ear protection was common years ago and thankfully that has changed. However, everything else appears to be very professional, safe and supervised. A range master and spotting scope is present, slings are in use, at least one shooter is wearing a heavy shooting glove and gauntlet, bolts are visibly open and the target trolleys are retracted indicating no targets, hanging at least, are down range. Certainly some artistic license is taking place by the photographer to get the shot as indicated by some of the off positions. I would say these ladies know exactly what they are doing, and doing it well. I applaud them and I wish this scene were more common.

I was on a smallbore competition rifle team (indoor and outdoor) in the late 1950s to mid 1960s and very few folks used eye or ear protection back then.

Our matches consisted of four different positions...
Prone (as shown in the photo)
Sitting
Kneeling
Offhand (standing)

The Offhand position would be a bit tough on this range as the wood cross member would probably be in the way unless the shooter is really short.

We had similar wheels on our indoor range except the wheels were mounted at a more convenient waist height.

That's the nature of this (basement) space. Used for law enforcement personnel training and practice. The pulleys are to bring the targets to the shooters for examination.

A gun range - the pulley wheels operates the target hanger clotheslines.

DaveB

No eye or hearing protection either.

A Marine gunnery sergeant would be kicking some left elbows here to get them "well under the piece" while yelling about sight alignment and sight picture.

The rifles are clearly unloaded.

Check out the shiny black high-heel pumps on the right hand woman! What a great photo. What kind of building was this, with the pulley wheel-like apparatuses?

All of the rifles have their bolts open. They can't possibly be fired like that.

Either the photographer used a remote-controlled camera, or this violated just about the most basic rules of gun safety.

Just noticing siting and downrange rifle alignment, the young woman in the middle is most likely to be the real marksman.

Some of the gals from that famous 1925 Christmas office party photo that is also from Washington D.C.? At least 3 of them look slightly familiar! Especially the 3 on the floor taking aim.

They don't seem to have any other targets to aim at.