Related by Marriage: The Gang at the Office

Chicago Loop, December 1947. Mr. Irene's Mom—with eye glasses and standing to your left of the tree—enjoys the office Christmas party with her bookkeeping-department coworkers. Her boss, wearing a light-colored dress, sits in front of the tree, with her hand on a colleague's shoulder.

Mr. Irene's Mom worked in this office until she married in 1958.