No, not that kind of working girl. These are the young women who spent their days as clerks more than 100 years ago, filling out forms and filing papers in the new office culture of the 20th century.
They sit at desks instead of cubicles, rely on pens and paper rather than computers, and wear the same tidy outfit and hairstyle. They don’t appear much different than the office workers of today.
This image comes from a postcard of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company actuary office. Perhaps it’s a floor in the lovely tower on 23rd Street that still stands today.
Tags: Career Girls 1900, Inside of an office 1910, Met Life Tower, vintage New York postcards, vintage working women, Women in offices 1900, Working girls 1910, working women of 1900
Ephemeral New York 
September 5, 2013 at 9:56 am |
Reblogged this on KREUZBERG´D and commented:
Meanwhile in New York…
September 5, 2013 at 11:05 pm |
With windows on three sides of this room it seems a little narrow to be the Met Life Tower. Nice picture anyway.
September 6, 2013 at 2:28 pm |
Good point. I wonder where then?
September 10, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Could be windows into a hallway on one side?
September 5, 2013 at 11:45 pm |
Cool. Lovely painting. They all look like office Gibson girls.
September 17, 2013 at 6:27 pm |
Fabulous painting.
just thinking, pretty much the same–just PA’s now. 😀