Curator's note | The man in the foreground is using a then common piece of office machinery - the dictation machine or 'dictaphone'. These machines were used by office managers to record speech for later playback or transcription into print by stenographers. |
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Title | Office Workers at the John East Iron Works, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Date | [1940] |
Physical extent | 1 photograph ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm |
Scope and content | A photograph of the interior of the John East Iron Works in Saskatoon, SK. Men and women can be seen working at desks within a large office area. |
Repository | Saskatoon Public Library Local History Room |
Fonds/collection | Hillyard Photographs Collection | Credits | Hillyard, Leonard |
Retrieval information | John East Iron Works, A-803 |
Theme(s) |
The Office |
Database ID | 36399 |