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- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
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Desk Set: 1925
Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Bureau of Identification, Department of Justice." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Feng Shui
Seems to me that if they just turned those two desks 90 degrees, everyone would be a lot happier.
P-Men
You know it happened more than once. The poor guy in the rear left begging to be let out to use the bathroom, while the others laugh. "I'm busy Earl- use the window!" The image of him climbing up and around the cabinets makes me smile.
Sidesaddle
They can't even turn their office chairs forward - the fellow in the front left has to sit sidesaddle!
They're wasting all that space on top of the filing cabinets. The Mad Stamper guy could crawl up there with his papers and pretend it's a loft. He'd be a lot more comfortable.
Office Space
It looks like the proto-FBI was growing fast, they were jamming people in wherever space could be found. This was an era when the 'bullpen' office was still standard, everyone except the bigwigs would have their desks together in the middle of an open floor.
Drunk Woodworker
The left desk is half an inch taller than the right! Sacrilege! Oh, never mind—they're different models or manufacturers.
What, no "Brazil" comments yet?
Did you get the memo?
"Hey guys, this interoffice memo I just opened says they are moving two more desks and four more guys into our office tomorrow." Does anyone know if deodorant existed in 1925?
Agility Required
I can't even figure out how the guy in the left foreground gets in and out of his own seat, let alone what he has to go through to liberate his coworker.
Inefficient!
How do they ever get any files out of the cabinets?
Justice, indeed.
Justice, indeed. This seating arrangement is a weight control program. Perhaps the Bureau of Weights and Measures would be more apt.
Bureau of Cramped Quarters
That guy in the far seat would have to get his buddy to move if he had to go to the bathroom. Somebody MUST have jammed these two desks into that end of the room just for the photo. They can't even open the lower file drawers without moving furniture.
These guys look serious!
Geez, at least we have casual Fridays and foot room in our ubiquitous cubicles, eh what! I can't imagine being stuffed into those suits for eight hours and no wiggle room. No matter, these guys were replaced by a computer. Heh.
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