Mail Collection (#21)

Royal Mail Atlantis Cruises poster
Poster advertising a cruise on the RMSP Atlantis with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, featuring a smiling young woman in what looks like a North African location, carrying a water urn

Italian Airmail Warehouse
View of an Italian Airmail Warehouse (Aero Espresso Italiana) with a British seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Grahame-White and Lady Northcliffe at Hendon
The aviator Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959) with Lady Northcliffe at Hendon before the Great Air Race (probably the air race sponsored by the Daily Mail in 1910)

Coaling a Royal Mail steam packet at Kingston, Jamaica
Scene at the harbour in Kingston, Jamaica, showing lines a women carrying baskets of coal on their heads on board a Royal Mail steam packet ship

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

Foundering of the Union Companys Mail Steam-Ship American
This image depicts the loss of the steam ship American which sunk near Cape Palmas on 23rd April 1880

Womens Volunteer Reserve 1916
Womens Volunteer Reserve driving the Royal Mail during World War I. Here being given engine instruction in November 1916

Constantinople - RMS Carinthia
RMS Carinthia was first laid down in Barrow-in-Furness in 1924 with the yard number Hull 586. Originally she had the name Servia but was renamed at the time of her launching on 24 February 1925

Charleville, Queensland, 1908
Country Mail Stagecoach leaving the Charleville Post Office in Queensland, Australia

Accomplishments on the Mail Order System
A promising young studend of the Correspondence College for Skating taking the first course. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Christmas mail arriving in the trenches 1916
Front cover photograph from The Sphere, December 1916 showing a joyful soldier in a trench laden with Christmas parcels

Quarantine Precautions
passengers washing their clothes on board the royal Mail companys steamer Neva, off Buenos Aires, by order of the health officer

Bombed Train
Polish insurgents raid a mail- train at Rogoff on the Vienna- Warsaw railway, seizing money from the border customs tolls

The Sea Messenger, 1870
Engraving of the Sea Messenger, a lifeboat designed for ships letters and papers, invented by J.A.R. Vandenbergh. As many ships carried mail and state papers

West Country mail carriages in Piccadilly
Horse-drawn carriages from the West Country bringing mail to the Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly, London

SS Ireland, 1885
Engraving of the City of Dubin Steam-Packet Companys Mail Paddle Steamship Ireland, shortly after its launch, 1885. This ship, built in the Laird Shipyard at Birkenhead

Sorting mail on a train
Illustration by Ernest Prater showing male postal workers aboard a London and North-Western train sorting mail

Royal Mail departure from the General Post Office
Colour illustration showing horse-drawn Royal Mail carriages departing from the General Post Office, London

The Crew of the Pandora Recovering Mail from the Cairn on
Engraving showing the crew of the ship Pandora recovering mail, left by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875, from the cairn on top of Carey Island

After-Deck of the RMS Asia, 1850
Engraving of the after-deck of Cunard Line Royal Mail Paddle-steamer Asia at sea, 1850. Asia was the largest steamship yet built on the River Clyde

Last horse-drawn mail van
The last horse drawn mail van, Peter, leaving K.E.B on Saturday 24th September 1949. In the background are the still bomb-damaged streets of the St. Pauls area of London. Date: 24th September 1949

Deck of a Mail Steamer in the Red Sea, 1872
Engraving showing the forecastle of a mail steamer at night, in the Red Sea, 1872. The oppressive heat of the area has driven some of the crew and passengers to sleep on the front deck of the ship

The First Penny Post from England to America, 1908
Photographs and Illustrations showing the first mail service to operate between England and America for the price of a penny. At top left, photograph of the Royal Mail Van at Waterloo Station

Sorting room at the General Post Office
Engraving from 1875, showing the sorting room of the General Post Office with workers (all male) stamping and sorting mail

SS Great Western in a Heavy Gale, North Atlantic, 1846
Engraving showing the Steamship Great Western being struck amidships in a gale during a crossing from Liverpool to New York in 1846

RMS Forth, 1849
Engraving of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Companys paddle-steamer Forth. Built in Leith in 1841, the Forth went missing between Southampton and the West Indies early in 1841

Putting the Mail on the Viceroy, Galway, 1850
Engraving showing sacks of mail leaving Galway in rowing boats to be put aboard the Viceroy, on its maiden voyage to New York, 1850

First dispatch of mail-bags by pneumatic tube
First dispatch of mail-bags in 1863 through the pneumatic tube from the district office in Eversholt Street, London to Euston Station

Classical Myth / Athena
A colossal head of Minerva, the Roman Goddess of Wisdom. She is often represneted as grave, wearing a helmet and with drapery over a coat of mail

De Montfort at Evesham
The last stand of Simon De Montfort at the Battle of Evesham

Changing Horses
The Mail Change - at a posting inn, four fresh horses are brought out to replace those of the approaching mail coach

Mail Wagon Moldavia
Carrying the mail in Moldavia, eastern Europe

A Friend in Need
Humorous illustration showing a little girl helping a small terrier dog to reach up to post a letter

Mongol Warrior in Armour
A Mongol warrior in chain armour, carrying a scimitar and some sort of polearm

Reindeer Used for Mail
In the Ural mountains of Russia, reindeer are used by the postmen who must deliver mail in remote places under arduous conditions

Mail Sorting Office
Postal workers at the General Post Office (Britain), manually sorting mail into pigeon holes

A Bath-room on the R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of a bathroom aboard Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

The Childrens Playroom, R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of the Childrens Playroom aboard Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

The Express Mail Train, 1844
Engraving showing the Mail train from Folkestone to London, with three lights on the front to indicate that its the Express train, carrying post from India and the Far East

English Mail Coach
English stagecoach and mail coach

GPO EXETER
The self-service section of the General Post Office at Exeter offering change, postal orders and stamped stationery

Royal Mail Turbine Steamer Viper, 1906
Photograph of the Royal Mail Turbine steamer Viper, built in 1906 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. for the Ardrossan-Belfast daylight service of Messrs. G. and J. Burns, Glasgow

The Mouth and Carriage of the Pneumatic Letter and Parcel Co
Engraving showing the mouth of the despatch-tube and a carriage, carrying mail, of the Pneumatic Despatch Company, Battersea, London

American Mail Plane 1927
An American mail plane lands at night, guided by beams from the airfield below

Racial Type / Austria Post
This lucky Austrian postman, delivering mails on a rainy day, has met two pretty girls who invite him to share their umbrella

The Motor in Mail Service
A new delivery-car for the Post Office

The Post in the Snow
Three engravings to illustrate the changing modes of postal delivery through the nineteenth century. The top illustration shows a post boy with his horse, lost in the snow

Knight & Squire / 11th C
A knight & his squire from the period of the first crusade

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