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Wow! My mother worked in an office identical to this. She worked for a firm that supplied top shelf liquors to high end department stores ie: Broadway, Bullocks etc. What a different world we live in today. Don’t see any department stores with liqour departments, nor do you see offices like this one. Sadly it time marched on.
04.17.14 — David Timm
Hi!
I was searching for some vintage office photos and I came across your vintage SteelCase picture. That is my mother in the black dress with red hair. She used to model for
SteelCase when she was around 19 or 20. She has a few catalogs that she was in and they are fantastic. I’m hoping to frame them one day.
My cousin Brian Miller has been the photographer for SteelCase for years as well.
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Wow! My mother worked in an office identical to this. She worked for a firm that supplied top shelf liquors to high end department stores ie: Broadway, Bullocks etc. What a different world we live in today. Don’t see any department stores with liqour departments, nor do you see offices like this one. Sadly it time marched on.
Hi!
I was searching for some vintage office photos and I came across your vintage SteelCase picture. That is my mother in the black dress with red hair. She used to model for
SteelCase when she was around 19 or 20. She has a few catalogs that she was in and they are fantastic. I’m hoping to frame them one day.
My cousin Brian Miller has been the photographer for SteelCase for years as well.
Great to see this.
Take care,
David Jon Timm