1925 · Cylinder Transcription · Werk 558 von 1.871

A room of small flat desks, each with a typewriter and a cylinder player beside it, listening tubes hanging over the machines like stethoscopes, each key cap bearing a single capital letter, a rack of cylinders in cardboard tubes with plain round labels on the end wall, typists seen from behind, hair pinned up, dark unlit figures at the far desks, tall windows along the left wall letting in flat grey daylight, electric pendant lamps with white glass shades in a line down the ceiling, steel filing cabinets against the right wall, the desks receding into the depth of the room.
Was die Quellen offenlassen: Dem Jahr 1925 ließ sich keine Quelle zuordnen; belegt sind 1910 (Film), 1935 und 1939 (Fotografien). Das Geschlecht des Bedienpersonals auf dem Londoner Foto von 1939 gibt die Bildunterschrift nicht an.