Black and white image of five different women seated at desks. One woman sits at a typewriter, while the woman behind her appears to be working with paper accounting material. The three women on the left side of the image all sit before accounting machines, which performed typewriting, ten-key, and other computational functions necessary for keeping track of banking transactions. Considered early forerunners of the modern computer, machines like this were replaced with business computers in the 1960s and 1970s. Museum records identify these women as employees of Commercial National Bank, which occupied the building where the U. S. Bank is now in downtown Hillsboro, on the corner of 2nd and Main Streets.
Yellowed black and white image of five women standing in a row. All wear dresses of varying styles. Their hair is shorter and curled on the bottom. Three of the women wear glasses. Museum records identify these women as employees of Commercial National Bank, which occupied the building where the U. S. Bank is now in downtown Hillsboro, on the corner of 2nd and Main Streets.
Black and white image of several women manning a telephone switchboard. They wear headsets with microphones that rest on their chest, and the phone calls are connected by cords which plug into the switchboard to make the call. A woman in a dress stands at the end of the row, observing. This images was part of the Herbert McMullen bequest. McMullen was a local photographer who also collected other images of daily life in the area.
