1920's Business and the Economy | 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...