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Series: Working women until World War I

Headline: Women at the telephone exchange, around 1900

Date: 01.01.1900

Image text: The connection of telephone lines were made by the "switchboard operators", as shown in the photo.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822310
Women at the telephone exchange, around 1900

The connection of telephone lines were made by the "switchboard operators", as shown in the photo.
Headline: Workers in a cigar factory, 1908

Date: 01.01.1908

Image text: Female workers in a German cigar factory in 1908.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00161146
Workers in a cigar factory, 1908

Female workers in a German cigar factory in 1908.
Headline: Telephone exchange in Berlin, 1906

Date: 01.01.1906

Image text: Telephone operators work at a long table in a telephone exchange in Berlin, known as a table department.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00039928
Telephone exchange in Berlin, 1906

Telephone operators work at a long table in a telephone exchange in Berlin, known as a table department.
Headline: The first honorary master craftswoman in carpentry, 1905

Date: 01.01.1905

Image text: Cenzi Geyer from Nesselheim was the first woman to be awarded the title of honorary master in recognition of her services to the German crafts.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822316
The first honorary master craftswoman in carpentry, 1905

Cenzi Geyer from Nesselheim was the first woman to be awarded the title of honorary master in recognition of her services to the German crafts.
Headline: Women looking for work at a railway station, around 1914

Date: 01.01.1913

Image text: In the large cities and industrial conurbations there were also many young women and girls from the countryside looking for work. In the stations and waiting rooms, these job-seeking women were often to be found individually or in small groups. Many of them were picked up by traffickers and pimps and ended up in brothels or on the streets.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822315
Women looking for work at a railway station, around 1914

In the large cities and industrial conurbations there were also many young women and girls from the countryside looking for work. In the stations and waiting rooms, these job-seeking women were often to be found individually or in small groups. Many of them were picked up by traffickers and pimps and ended up in brothels or on the streets.
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822314
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Street worker in Munich, around 1910

Date: 01.01.1910

Image text: Two ladies of the better society request a donation for the collection box even from the hard working street sweeper on the so-called "Heckenroeschentag" (Hedge Rose Day). The photo is undated.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822313
Street worker in Munich, around 1910

Two ladies of the better society request a donation for the collection box even from the hard working street sweeper on the so-called "Heckenroeschentag" (Hedge Rose Day). The photo is undated.
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822312
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Unskilled female workers in a hat factory, 1905

Date: 01.01.1905

Image text: Female employees decorating fashionable straw hats for men from Panama in a hat factory under low working conditions and poor pay.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822311
Unskilled female workers in a hat factory, 1905

Female employees decorating fashionable straw hats for men from Panama in a hat factory under low working conditions and poor pay.
Headline: Female pilot, 1911

Date: 01.01.1911

Image text: From the very beginning of aviation there were also daring, young women who wanted to fly on their own. The picture shows one of these women, the American Margaret Perry, on her own monoplane at Bork airfield.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822309
Female pilot, 1911

From the very beginning of aviation there were also daring, young women who wanted to fly on their own. The picture shows one of these women, the American Margaret Perry, on her own monoplane at Bork airfield.
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822308
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822307
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Street sweepers in Munich, around 1906

Date: 01.01.1905

Image text: Street cleaners in Munich.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822306
Street sweepers in Munich, around 1906

Street cleaners in Munich.
Headline: Women in the telephone exchange, 1881

Date: 01.01.1881

Image text: The first public telephone exchange in the German Reich was opened in Berlin in 1881. The photo shows the Telephone Office I., in which almost exclusively women are employed and male postal workers are the supervisors.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822305
Women in the telephone exchange, 1881

The first public telephone exchange in the German Reich was opened in Berlin in 1881. The photo shows the Telephone Office I., in which almost exclusively women are employed and male postal workers are the supervisors.
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822304
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822303
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: Ulrich Frodien

Image number: 00822302
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Women in the telephone exchange in Chemnitz, 1905

Date: 01.01.1905

Image text: Women at work in the telephone exchange. With the so-called desk system, the lines were plugged for the first 10,000 subscribers.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822301
Women in the telephone exchange in Chemnitz, 1905

Women at work in the telephone exchange. With the so-called desk system, the lines were plugged for the first 10,000 subscribers.
Headline: Butcher's shop in Berlin, 1913

Date: 01.01.1913

Image text: A butcher's shop that was considered the most modern and newest retail store in Berlin at that time. Mostly women work there, left at the cash desk, right as sales assistants.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822300
Butcher's shop in Berlin, 1913

A butcher's shop that was considered the most modern and newest retail store in Berlin at that time. Mostly women work there, left at the cash desk, right as sales assistants.
Headline: Office from the turn of the century, around 1900

Date: 01.01.1900

Image text: An office where a secretary is working at the typewriter.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822299
Office from the turn of the century, around 1900

An office where a secretary is working at the typewriter.
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822298
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822296
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822295
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Tram conductors in Berlin, 1915

Date: 01.01.1915

Image text: What the sufragettes had failed to achieve in their decades of struggle, the First World War achieved in a few months. Due to the rapidly increasing number of men killed on the front lines, women were employed in professions previously reserved for men only. The picture shows two female tram conductors in Berlin.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00822294
Tram conductors in Berlin, 1915

What the sufragettes had failed to achieve in their decades of struggle, the First World War achieved in a few months. Due to the rapidly increasing number of men killed on the front lines, women were employed in professions previously reserved for men only. The picture shows two female tram conductors in Berlin.
Headline: Melli Beese, c. 1914

Date: 01.01.1914

Image text: The first German aviator Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese, called Melli Besse and wife of the French aircraft designer Charles Boutard.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822293
Melli Beese, c. 1914

The first German aviator Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese, called Melli Besse and wife of the French aircraft designer Charles Boutard.
Headline: Nurse in field equipment, 1914

Date: 01.08.1914

Image text: A nurse in field equipment from the Bavarian Women's Association.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822292
Nurse in field equipment, 1914

A nurse in field equipment from the Bavarian Women's Association.
Headline: Women in business until 1914

Image text: Women in business until 1914

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822291
Women in business until 1914

Women in business until 1914
Headline: Newspaper packers in Berlin, 1912

Date: 01.01.1912

Image text: The August-Schwer-Verlag in Berlin had employed not only male but also female staff.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822290
Newspaper packers in Berlin, 1912

The August-Schwer-Verlag in Berlin had employed not only male but also female staff.
Headline: Milliners in the hat salon, 1906

Date: 01.01.1906

Image text: Milliners garnish hats with real flowers in a hat salon.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00834755
Milliners in the hat salon, 1906

Milliners garnish hats with real flowers in a hat salon.
Headline: Issuing office of an amber factory, 1913

Date: 01.01.1913

Image text: Workers of the Palmnicken amber factory in East Prussia / Germany hand in the amber stones they processed at home.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 00300980
Issuing office of an amber factory, 1913

Workers of the Palmnicken amber factory in East Prussia / Germany hand in the amber stones they processed at home.
Headline: Workers in a cable factory, 1895

Date: 01.01.1895

Image text: Industrial workers in a large cable factory are working on their machines at the wire mill.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00131634
Workers in a cable factory, 1895

Industrial workers in a large cable factory are working on their machines at the wire mill.
Headline: Kindergarten teachers with children, 1899

Date: 01.01.1899

Image text: Kindergarten teachers with children in the nursery of the Pestalozzi-Froebelhaus in Berlin. Women give bottles to the nursing infants.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00096985
Kindergarten teachers with children, 1899

Kindergarten teachers with children in the nursery of the Pestalozzi-Froebelhaus in Berlin. Women give bottles to the nursing infants.
Headline: Female bicycle couriers in Berlin, 1913

Date: 14.09.1913

Image text: Female couriers in uniform with their bicycles. Following the pattern of the Messenger boy Institutes in Berlin, a new express messengers service has been established that uses only female bicycle messenger.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00091690
Female bicycle couriers in Berlin, 1913

Female couriers in uniform with their bicycles. Following the pattern of the Messenger boy Institutes in Berlin, a new express messengers service has been established that uses only female bicycle messenger.
Headline: Blacksmith at work, 1913

Date: 19.09.1913

Image text: A female blacksmith while soldering.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00091686
Blacksmith at work, 1913

A female blacksmith while soldering.
Headline: Woman filling bullets in a shrapnel

Date: 01.01.1914

Image text: Woman fills in bullets in shrapnel shells during the First World War. Equipped with a timed detonator, the shrapnel shell exploded in the air and released the bullets. Grenades with shrapnel shells were used to combat infantry.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00048060
Woman filling bullets in a shrapnel

Woman fills in bullets in shrapnel shells during the First World War. Equipped with a timed detonator, the shrapnel shell exploded in the air and released the bullets. Grenades with shrapnel shells were used to combat infantry.
Headline: Nurse on the pediatric ward of the Empress Auguste-Viktoria Hospital, 1914

Date: 01.01.1914

Image text: A nurse at the bed-side of an infant on the quarantine station in the children's section of the Empress Auguste-Viktoria Hospital in Berlin-Schoeneberg.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00032649
Nurse on the pediatric ward of the Empress Auguste-Viktoria Hospital, 1914

A nurse at the bed-side of an infant on the quarantine station in the children's section of the Empress Auguste-Viktoria Hospital in Berlin-Schoeneberg.
Headline: Female goldsmith at work, 1913

Date: 01.01.1913

Image text: Female goldsmith at work with a drill.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00027210
Female goldsmith at work, 1913

Female goldsmith at work with a drill.
Headline: Nurses in an office, (1914)

Date: 01.01.1914

Image text: Nurses in an office.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00027209
Nurses in an office, (1914)

Nurses in an office.
Headline: Telephone exchange in Berlin, 1910

Date: 01.01.1910

Image text: Telephone operators at their jobs in a telephone exchange.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00015338
Telephone exchange in Berlin, 1910

Telephone operators at their jobs in a telephone exchange.
Headline: Telephone operators in the exchange

Date: 01.01.1900

Image text: Telephone operators at the switchboards of a telephone exchange.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00015334
Telephone operators in the exchange

Telephone operators at the switchboards of a telephone exchange.
Headline: Telephone operators in the central office Chemnitz, 1905

Date: 01.01.1905

Image text: Women at the exchange of Chemnitz at a so-called "table system" for up to 10,000 participants.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00015333
Telephone operators in the central office Chemnitz, 1905

Women at the exchange of Chemnitz at a so-called "table system" for up to 10,000 participants.
Headline: Factory workers

Date: 01.01.1890

Image text: Factory workers in Bad Cannstatt.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00049934
Factory workers

Factory workers in Bad Cannstatt.
Headline: Office, circa 1905

Date: 01.01.1900

Image text: Reconstruction of a pre-1914 trade office furnished in the office style of the time with a high chair, high desk and a typewriter on which the female office worker is typing. On the wall hangs a map of the German Reich.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 02308183
Office, circa 1905

Reconstruction of a pre-1914 trade office furnished in the office style of the time with a high chair, high desk and a typewriter on which the female office worker is typing. On the wall hangs a map of the German Reich.
Headline: Office worker with typewriter, around 1905

Date: 01.01.1900

Image text: An office worker holding a book in her hand, beside her is a typewriter standing on a small table. Undated picture.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 02307999
Office worker with typewriter, around 1905

An office worker holding a book in her hand, beside her is a typewriter standing on a small table. Undated picture.
Headline: Secretary at the typewriter, around 1900

Date: 01.01.1900

Image text: The picture shows a secretary working at a typewriter. After an advertisement drawing from around 1900.

Photo: SZ Photo

Image number: 02308002
Secretary at the typewriter, around 1900

The picture shows a secretary working at a typewriter. After an advertisement drawing from around 1900.
Headline: Silesian linen dealers, 1906

Date: 01.01.1906

Image text: Silesian linen merchants on their sales tour through a village in Lower Silesia. At the beginning of the 19th century, the textile industry flourished through homework, but was gradually abandoned due to the use of mechanical looms.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 01124843
Silesian linen dealers, 1906

Silesian linen merchants on their sales tour through a village in Lower Silesia. At the beginning of the 19th century, the textile industry flourished through homework, but was gradually abandoned due to the use of mechanical looms.
Headline: Women in a cigar factory, 1908

Date: 01.01.1908

Image text: Women working on machines in a German cigar factory.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 02265869
Women in a cigar factory, 1908

Women working on machines in a German cigar factory.
Headline: Toy factory

Date: 01.01.1910

Image text: Young girls manufacturing dolls in a toy factory (undated image).

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00652608
Toy factory

Young girls manufacturing dolls in a toy factory (undated image).
Headline: Female luggage carrier, 1911

Date: 01.01.1911

Image text: Luggage carrier runs with her cart full of suitcases and baskets over Karolinenplatz in Munich.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00052036
Female luggage carrier, 1911

Luggage carrier runs with her cart full of suitcases and baskets over Karolinenplatz in Munich.
Headline: Sailor, 1911

Date: 01.01.1911

Image text: A sailor during the Imperial Era.

Photo: Scherl

Image number: 00822466
Sailor, 1911

A sailor during the Imperial Era.