1935 Print Office Chicago Illinois Montgomery Ward Retail Women Letters FZ2 XGJ1 Albert Gallatin

Albert Gallatin

Mixed with asphalt and pressed into sheets

Baker was the director at the time

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1935 Print Office Chicago Illinois Montgomery Ward Retail Women Letters FZ2 XGJ1 Albert GallatinThis is an original 1935 halftone print of women at Montgomery Ward opening letters at the Chicago, Illinois store. The orders seen in the middle of the room are on a moving belt, which directly deposits the orders at the warehouse department. The letter opening department had 100 girls working, and each girl would take care of 250 orders in an hour on average. Photography by Margaret Bourke White. Bourke White was born in the Bronx, New York. Her