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Description: | A fascinating reminder of the large number of clerical workers employed by Huntley & Palmers. Typists are seated at the right, by the window. The scenes, with its rows of tables, each with a diligent (and presumably silent) clerk, has the air of an exam room. The clock shows the photograph was taken at 11.30 - not long to go before dinner-hour! The date of the photograph is uncertain - Walton Adams died in 1934, but his photography business continued under his name after he retired in 1922 and continues to trade to this day. It is possible that this photograph may date from as late as the 1950s. The airy office would seem to be part of the new buildings dating from 1937 - compare this image with the cramped 'Office at Huntley & Palmers, around 1930' also on this website. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | interior social history trade working life table people | Temporal: | start=1937-01-01; end=1950-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Adams, Walton | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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