Desk Collection

The Letter, 20th century. Artist: Rex Whistler
The Letter, 20th century. From The Studio Volume 120 [The Studio Ltd. London & New York, 1940]

Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance, c1935. The circular Reading Room of the British Museum in central London was designed by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877)

The Tax Collectors, 1520s. Artist: Massys, Quentin (1466?1530)
The Tax Collectors, 1520s. Found in the collection of the Liechtenstein Museum

The Writing Desk, 1915. Creator: Frederick Childe Hassam
The Writing Desk, 1915

Desk and Bookcase, 1893. Creator: Ladislaus Zdzieblowski
Desk and Bookcase, 1893. Decorative carved roof, and panels with portraits

Police Bacteriological Laboratory, 1914. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray Bell. [William Heinemann, London, 1914]

Mr Sandow Attending To His Days Correspondence, c1898. Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) was a German pioneering bodybuilder known as the father of modern bodybuilding

"John Bunyan Reciting 'The Pilgrim's Progress'...in Bedford Gaol,...by G. F. Folingsby..., 1864
"John Bunyan Reciting 'The Pilgrim's Progress' to his friends in Bedford Gaol", by G. F. Folingsby, of Munich, in the exhibition of Fine Arts at Melbourne, Australia, 1864

Pussyfoot Johnson, between 1919 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Pussyfoot Johnson, between 1919 and c1920. Shows William Eugene "Pussyfoot" Johnson (1862-1945) who was an supporter of Prohibition and law enforcement officer

Louis L. Klotz, Minister of Finance, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Louis L. Klotz, Minister of Finance, between c1910 and c1915.

Heink, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Heink, between c1915 and c1920. Shows German American opera singer Ernestine (Ro¨ssler) Schumann-Heink (1861-1936).

Iva Shuster -- Judge F.B. House, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Iva Shuster -- Judge F.B. House, 1917. Shows Iva Shuster who was appointed as official stenographer for the City Magistrates' courts in New York City in January 1917

R.W. Wooley, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
R.W. Wooley, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Robert Wickliffe Woolley (1871-1958) who served as Director of the U.S. Mint (1915-1916).

The Great Schools of England: Christ's Hospital - the Grammar-School, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Great Schools of England: Christ's Hospital - the Grammar-School, 1862. Founded in the 16th century, Christ's Hospital is one of the oldest boarding schools in England

Helen Kenyon, 13 Apr 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Helen Kenyon, 13 Apr 1918. Helen Kenyon (1884-1978) who helped organize the Vassar Training Camp for Nurses during World War I.

Maj. Chester P. Barnett, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Maj. Chester P. Barnett, 1917 or 1918. Chester Piersol Barnett (b. 1887) who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War I. Barnett is probably in his office at the U.S

Col. W.A. Simpson, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Col. W.A. Simpson, 1917 or 1918. Adjutant General William A. Simpson of the U.S. Army in his office during World War I at the U.S

Maj. Hunter S. Marston, 10 Sept 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Maj. Hunter S. Marston, 10 Sept 1917 (date created or published later). Banker Hunter S. Marston (1885-1979) who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War I

Maj. Walter D. Rogers, 1917 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Maj. Walter D. Rogers, 1917 and 1918. Major Walter D. Rogers who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War I. Rogers is probably in his office at the U.S

Maj. Willard D. Straight, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Maj. Willard D. Straight, 1917 or 1918. Banker and publisher Willard Dickerman Straight (1880-1918) who served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Straight is probably in his office at the U.S

Gen. E.D. Hoyle, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Gen. E.D. Hoyle, 1917 or 1918. Eli DuBose Hoyle (1851-1921) who served as U.S. Army Brigadier General and Commander of the Port of Embarkation at Governors Island, New York City during World War I

Censoring prisoners' mail, Doeberitz, 23 Sept 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Censoring prisoners' mail, Doeberitz, 23 Sept 1915 (date created or published later). Soldiers checking the mail of prisoners at a prisoner of war camp at Do¨beritz (now Dallgow-Do¨beritz)

The moneylenders, c.1520. Creator: Massys, Quentin
The moneylenders, c.1520. Found in the Collection of the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rom.

Farmers pay tithes, Early 18th century. Creator: Bossche, Balthasar van den (1681-1715)
Farmers pay tithes, Early 18th century. Private Collection

The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill...Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill, Lower Mosley-street, Manchester, 1862. Literacy classes for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

Interior of a doctor's waiting room at the resort of Lake Shira, 1900-1909. Creator: LI Vonago
Interior of a doctor's waiting room at the resort of Lake Shira, 1900-1909. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Helen Kenyon, 13 Apr 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Helen Kenyon, 13 Apr 1918. Helen Kenyon (1884-1978) who helped organize the Vassar Training Camp for Nurses during World War I.

At German Consulate, New York, 1914 April or May. Creator: Bain News Service
At German Consulate, New York, 1914 April or May. German Americans at the German Consulate in New York City as part of German mobilization before World War I.

Self portrait, 18th century. Creator: Martin van Meytens
Self portrait, 18th century

Unknown man, c18th century. Creator: Francois Dumont
Unknown man, c18th century

Pehr Axel Nystrom, 1793-1868, 1832. Creator: Erik Wahlbergson
Pehr Axel Nystrom, 1793-1868, 1832

Design for secretary desk, 1816. Creator: Unknown
Design for secretary desk, 1816

'Le General Petain dans son Wagon-Salon, 1916 (1924) Creator: Unknown
'Le General Petain dans son Wagon-Salon, 1916. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Asst. Sec'y of the Navy Soley, between 1890 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
Asst. Sec'y of the Navy Soley, between 1890 and 1901

Chief constructor Hichborn, between 1890 and 1901. Creator: Unknown
Chief constructor Hichborn, between 1890 and 1901

Capt. N.H. Farquhar, Bureau of Yards and Docks, between 1890 and 1894. Creator: Unknown
Capt. N.H. Farquhar, Bureau of Yards and Docks, between 1890 and 1894

Still Life with Jar and Fruits, 1942. Creator: Immanuel Ibsen
Still Life with Jar and Fruits, 1942

House of Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, 1933 Oct. 17. Creator: Arnold Genthe
House of Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, 1933 Oct. 17. Address: Sefton Manor, Mill Neck, Long Island, New York. House designed in 1922 by Clinton and Russell for cosmetics executive Lillian Sefton Dodge

Fashion Plate (Morning Dress), 1813. Creator: Rudolph Ackermann
Fashion Plate (Morning Dress), 1813

Monk Instructing a Boy Dressed in a Cassock, c1865. Creator: Otto Brandt
Monk Instructing a Boy Dressed in a Cassock, c1865

Portrait of a Gentleman, c18th century. Creator: Elias Martin
Portrait of a Gentleman, c18th century

Prefecture de police -Vous n'avez pas de médailles? -J'ai cru qu'il n'y avait plus de... 1872
Prefecture de police -Vous n'avez pas de medailles? -J'ai cru qu'il n'y avait plus de decoration pour le civil. 1872

King Gustavus III and Catherine II of Russia in Fredrikshavn 1783, 1784. Creator: Cornelius Hoyer
King Gustavus III and Catherine II of Russia in Fredrikshavn 1783, 1784

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt sitting at his desk in the White House, 1900s, (2023). American politician Theodore Roosevelt Junior (1858-1919)

Letter-Writing, 1912. Creator: Carl Larsson
Letter-Writing, 1912. Additional Info: Here, Ingrid, who was the daughter of one of Carl and Karin Larsson's employees

Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Aminte en son Cabinet, between circa 1678 and circa 1693

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Un bureau de recrutement pour engages volontaires... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Un bureau de recrutement pour engages volontaires a Petrograd, en juillet et aout 1917: tandis que l'armee reguliere se desagregeait

Mr Henry Clay Pierce, 1899. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Mr Henry Clay Pierce, 1899

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