American Decades
Women in the Office
"Heap of Papers" and "Three Women at Desk"
Photographs
By: Harry Mellon Rhoads
Date: ca. 1920–1930
Source: Rhoads, Harry Mellon. "Three Women at Desk" and "Heap of Papers." ca. 1920–1930. History of the American West, 1860–1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed February 14, 2003).
About the Photographer: Harry Mellon Rhoads (1880 or 1881–1975) was born in Unionville, Pennsylvania, and attended school in Denver, Colorado. He remained there, working as a newspaper photographer for the Denver Republican and the...
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1920's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Women in the Office
- "The Negro Working Woman"
- Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1924
- The Real Estate Boom
- Installment Buying
- Regulating Radio
- "The Shop Chairmen, the Rank and File and the 'Prosanis' Label"
- "No Backward Step in Federal Aid For Road Building Can Be Taken"
- Calvin Coolidge And Nicaragua
- "Open Letter to the Pullman Company"
- "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores"
- Federal Farm Policy
- "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
- "A New Era … an Economic Revolution of the Profoundest Character"
- "Brokers and Suckers"
- The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
