Communication Collection (#3)

Prince Albert, Dover to Ostend mail boat Date: 1950s

Orient, Australian Mail Steamer, cross-section

Ordering rooms by wireless, The Savoy Hotel, London
Remote booking, ordering rooms by wireless, The Savoy Hotel, London Date: 1911

British smaller Inland Postcard
This replaced the earlier larger card and is an early example of how advertisers and merchants were making use of this cheap and efficient form of communication

The World's First Postcard
The idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865. Later that year

The Village Postman Date: 1907

Edison Telephones and Phonographs, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Edison Telephones and Phonographs, United States Section of Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Advert, W Blenheim & Co, electrical engineers, Egham, Surrey
Advert for W Blenheim & Co, electrical engineers, Egham, Surrey - electric telephones and apparatus. Date: 1893

Communications During the British Advance 1916
A shell-stricken tree as a telegraph pole in the Western Front. Date: 1916

Telephoning Australia by Short-Wave Wireless 1924
Diagram showing the possibility of extensive new development in long-distance communication using short-wave wireless telephone to Australia. Date: 1924

British soldiers on field telephones, WW1
British soldiers on field telephones in a concrete dugout, transmitting orders for battery ranges, Western Front, First World War. 1914-1918

New Paper the Daily Mirror 1903
A scene at 3 a.m. outside the Daily Mirror office. Where proprietors of the Daily Mail issued the first penny paper for gentlewomen for which the demand was unprecedented. Date: November 1903

Woman wearing morning dress 1875
Widow wearing elegant Victorian mourning dress, with tassel edge, tails and long train. Hair dressed high at the back with complicated twists and rolls with flat cap. Date: 1875

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London. The 1, 250 tons of telegraphic cable being laid out in five coils to go on-board the H.M.S

New tunnels for the Post Office Railway. 70ft beneath the ground near Oxford Street the nearly completed, double track line

Photograph taken by the corner of the Strand and the Aldwych. Showing Inveresk House, (on the left), formerly known as Borthwick House when it held the offices of the Morning Post, became, in 1928

Senufo mask (Burkina Fasso). It combines features of animals and humans. Senufo masks have the power to help communication between the living and their dead ancestors. African art. Decorative Arts

Spanish Civil War. Communication soldier of the Aragonese front

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). El receptor de radio (The radio receiver). Poster dited in Valencia. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Victory lies in fortify and resist. Poster by V. Martin. Editions of the Eastern Army. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

The wireless warfare: How the Admiralty's wireless installation that spook to any Britsih warships within 1600 miles of Whitehall

Prepare for the Holidays by William Heath Robinson
A man learning how to swim without water by correspondence from a college by letter. Date: 1919

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

French Soldiers Cutting Dead Horses Franco Prussian
french, soldiers, cutting, dead, horses, franco, prussian, war, 1871, meat, failure, la, grande, sortie, november, 1870, generals, break, lines, end, siege, paris, turning, point, communication

Officers and signallers have stationed themselves in a loft or attic in the upper storey of a damaged building, whose windows command a view the enermy's postion

Gunners are unable to see the targets at which they are firing, they depend on the information from the aircraft, this is a typical photograph taken during the great Allied advance on the Western

Exterior of the General Post Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand. Date: 1899

Monument raising above the other buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Date: 1897

Some of the modern linotype machines which set the type for The Daily Mail in Northcliffe House in Kensington London. (Centre)

Rising at four o'clock in the morning everyday, the lone worker goes to the newspaper office to procure a few of the first morning papers allotted to him, at extra charges

The first sign of convalescence. Date: 1892

The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON Dr Cavor tries to communicate with the Selenites Date: 1900

The art of pleasing in conversation - treatise by Ortigues de Vannoniere of Paris ; title page Date: 1695

General Post Office - St Martin s-le-Grand, London. This was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910. Photograph showing the room devoted to sorting of newspapers

Avro Anson C. 19 Series 1 TX209
Royal Air Force - Avro Anson C.19 Series 1 TX209, of the Western Communication Squadron, at RAF Wattisham on 5 April 1968. Date: 1968

Comic postcard, Gloomy businessman - Ups and Downs Date: 20th century

Postcard design artwork - Posting Birthday wishes
Postcard design artwork - With lots of love, my wish I send - For a Happy Birthday Little Friend! A child posting a letter into a tall red postbox. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Woman on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Used up writing pad Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with violin on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Honourable intentions Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man on the phone to the doctor Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl running to post a letter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl running to post a card Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl posting a card Date: 20th century

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