Photograph of Workers at the Advocate Printing Office

Greenville, Local Business, newspaper, office, Office Workers, press, Printing

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A photograph of an interior of a building with six men and one woman inside an office separated by a a half wall from the rest of the building. In the center there is a large desk with a man dressed in business attire reading a paper, there are three men standing behind him, one wearing a suit, and two men in work clothes leaning against the desk. On the left of the photograph there is a woman at a type writer. There are two light fixtures with bulbs hanging from the ceiling and various clutter around the office. There is a calendar on the wall that suggests that the month is February on a leap year possibly 1868, 1896, or earlier or later.

• SIUE Archives

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• industry

Unknown

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

8.9 x 10 [inches]

• 1890s-1920s
• Greenville, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-040