Mail Collection (#17)

Thanks awfully for telling us! Cartoon by H. M. Bateman
Thanks awfully for telling us! Knowledge as it is purveyed: dedicated to the " Daily ___" Bateman here pours scorn on the Daily Mail for its journalistic technique of stating the obvious

Ideal Home Exhibition advert
Advertisement for the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, London. Date: 16th April1932

Woman in newspaper kiosk with magazines on display all around her. Date: circa 1930s

De Havilland DH4 Mailplane loading mail

De Havilland Express G-ADYJ British Airways 1939
De Havilland Express G-ADYJ of British Airways (with Royal Mail logo) in1939 Date: 1939

Biplane - First Aerial Post from Hendon to Windsor, Hendon, London, County of London, England. Showing Mrs De Beauvoir Stocks (Second ever female pilot)

Mail Train at Summit, Kingussie, Inverness-shire
Mail Train at Summit, Kingussie, near Newtonmore, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Highland Railway Date: 1900s

Postman pixie delivering mail to a flower
A pixie postman carrying a big sack of mail, delivers a letter to a large yellow primula flower. Date: c. 1930

Embroidered Signatures Tabor House
Guests at the Tabor House signed a table cloth which was then embroidered during winter evenings

Inside of a post office-wagon (1854). Illustration published in the magazine La Ilustraci󮧮 Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Dutch doll postmen
Edwardian Xmas card depicting Dutch dolls delivering mail.Date: circa 1905

Plus Ultra steamer, Canary Islands
Plus Ultra steamer, serving the Canary Islands. Date: 20th century

Emmeline Pankhurst Daily Mail 1913
A newspaper placard advertising the Daily Mail dated Monday December 8th, 1913, with the headline, Mrs. Pankhurst Last Nights Decision

Recruitment poster on post box, WW1
The Call to Arms - a recruitment poster pasted to a post box reminding Britains men that their King and Country needed them in 1914. Date: 1914

Suffragette Militants Broken Windows. The scene in Cockspur Street, London following a campaign of window smashing by militant members of the W.S.P.U

Suffragette Publicity Newspaper Placards. Newspaper placards outside a newsagents shop show the headlines from the Daily Mail - Suffragettes Routed

Britannia, Royal Naval & Military Tournament, Olympia
A young woman dressed as Britannia, at the Royal Naval & Military Tournament, Olympia, London. Date: 1910

Suffragette Pillar Box Outrage. Well-dressed man, possibly drunk has slipped on pavement next to a red pillar (post) box, losing his top hat. Caption reads, Another Pillar Box Outrage

Suffragette Attacks Soldier, Not Letter Box. A short-sighted suffragette mistakes a soldier in a red uniform for a letter box and splatters ink intended for the mail all over his uniform

Christmas parcels for Tommy at the front
Army postmen dealing with hundreds of letters and parcels sent from home to active soldiers abroad, showing them that they are not forgotten during the festive season. Date: 1916

Tabor House Leadville Colorado
The home of Horace Tabor, who made and lost a vast fortune in mining silver at the Matchless Mine. The kitchen and fittings came by mail order from as far as New York and San Francisco

The night mail train. Men loading sacks of mail to be despatched around the country. Date: 1904

Departure of mail to British Soldiers
The regular despatch of soldierss letters and parcels throughout World War One. Several million letters and cards are sent weekly to different fronts

Two foldout Daily Mail Military Maps Numbers - WWI era
Two foldout Daily Mail Military Maps Numbers 1 and 2. No. 1 - The Franco-Belgian & German Frontiers, Scale 12 Miles to the Inch. No. 2 - Austro-German & Russian Frontiers, Scale 24 Miles to the Inch

Number One - when they yell, the mail is in. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Number Two - when there is nothing in the mail for you. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Daily Mail coloured map of part of the Western Front
Daily Mail coloured print of a map of part of the Western Front from Bethune and La Bassee in the North to Albert and Peronne in the South with Arras in the centre of the map

Children making mail bags for sending parcels to the front
Farnborough children making mail-bags for sending Christmas presents to the men in the trenches during the First World War. Date: 1915

Soldiers sorting military post, WW1
Men of the Royal Engineers sorting out letters at the G.P.O in 1915. The ever-increasing volume of letters and parcels to troops in various parts of the world necessitated experienced men who

Tommys Letter Bag, Arrival of Post at the Front, WW1
The arrival of mail at a British outpost station in France during the First World War. Date: 1915

Royal Mail Line advertisement
Advertisement for cruises de luxe to the Mediterranean and to Norway and the Baltic wwith Royal Mail Line ocean cruising steamers, where the pyramids at Giza

Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies shirts
Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies tailor-made shirts, made by expert tailors in the mens shirt department. Materials available are spun silk, taffeta silk, spunella

Advert for Shoolbreds blouses 1914
Advertisement for Shoolbreds blouses, illustrating three examples: a smart black fancy net blouse, a dainty ecru net blouse, and a smart ecru net blouse. 1914

Daily Mail newspaper artists office
Photograph of the art department of the Daily Mail, with illustrators working on pictures at large tables in the days when illustration was still as important as photography in newspapers

New Tube Railway for Mail by G H Davis
A diagram giving the details of the post office tube between Paddington and Whitechapel, built at the time at a cost of 1, 500, 000

Write to Harrods for it, 1909
A page from a 1909 Harrods mail order catalogue, advising country customers of the availability of goods listed in the catalogue and carriage costs. Date: 1909

British soldiers helmet with chainmail, WW1
A British soldiers helmet with protective chainmail, used during the First World War. Seen here on display, probably in a museum. Date: 1914-1918

Maeterlinck Photo
MAURICE MAETERLINCK Belgian writer, author of Pelleas et Melisande etc. photographed receiving his morning mail in 1915. Date: 1862-1949

Carrying Mail Sacks
Trusty workers at the General Post Office, lugging huge sacks of heavy mail over their shoulders. Date: early 1930s

Madame Loubet (His Maman
MADAME LOUBET mother of the French president receiving her morning mail from the postman. Date: 1899

Snow Mail Van
An ingenious mail van, fitted with skis to cope with winter snow and adverse weather conditions! Date: early 1930s

P & O Express Mail Steamer strathmore
P & O Express Mail Steamer Strathmore. Shoesmith, Kenneth Denton 1890 - 1939

The Knight by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov
The Knight - a painting by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926). Date: 15th century

Postal Sack Label - Royal Mail - postage from London (SW1) to Aberdeen Date: circa 1970s

Ukbekistan - Mail Carrier distributing newspapers
Ukbekistan (former Soviet Central Asia) - A horseback Mail Carrier distributing newspapers in the native language. Date: 1933

Picking up the mail! A photo taken in July 1929 between Boston and New York. Date: 1929

Beardmore WBIIB, G-EARX, air-mail transport

The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail prize
The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail 1, 000 prize for the first flight of one mile in a closed circuit by a British pilot in an all-British in September 1909. Horace Short is on the right

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