Mail Collection (#22)

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

Office Mail Distributed
A clerk distributes the morning mail to individual office desks

British Mail Van
A van of the Royal Mail, delivering to a rural area

Mail Coach / Cargo of Game
DECEMBER The Norwich to London mail coach transports a large cargo of game, including turkey rabbits, partridge and pheasant

German Mailcoach Driver
A German mailcoach driver from Dresden

Royal Mail Coach
The Royal Mail coach Coming down hill at quite a pace

English Lady & Knights
Woman: mantle, a kirtle with front lacing, girdle & pouch, ornamental fillet, coiled plaits & veil. Knights: mantle, various sleeveless fitted garments

Shipwrecks / Rms Rhone
Wreck of the Royal Mail Companys steam-ship RMS Rhone off St. Peters Island, British Virgin Islands

Steamship Arcadian
passenger liner of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Panama Colon
(aka Aspinwall) The United States Mail Steam- ship Companys offices

Reporters Room / Mail
The reporters room at the Daily Mail showing journalists busy at their typewriters

Racial / Brazil Postman
A smartly dressed Brazilian postman delivers the mail to two native Brazilians who are hardly dressed at all

Rollon of Normandie
ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY Norse invader of France who, preferring the climate to that of the North, establishes himself in France

Postman on Ski
In the French Alps, the postman delivers his mail on ski

Reading Letters
A man in a suit tries to plough his way through an enormous pile of letters

Manservant & Mail
A manservant brings in the mail on a tray

Covered Wagon USA 1934
I don t want a train to go home in, You keep your west- bound mail, Just set me on an old Prairie Schooner, singin down the old home trail

Soviet Troops Mail
Soviet soldiers receive mail and newspapers at the front

L POOL / M CHESTER RAILWAY
LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER RAILWAY Two freight and two passenger trains showing the variety of rolling stock employed on this short but busy line. 1st 2nd and 3rd class carriages shown

Thomas Marlowe, journalist and editor
THOMAS MARLOWE journalist, editor of the Daily Mail from 1899 to 1926

Steamer Poster
Poster for the South American service of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

Horse-Drawn Mail Cart
A man and his horse deliver the mail by cart

STEAMSHIP OHIO
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liner on the New York - Europe run

STEAMSHIP ALMANZORA
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liner on the South American run

Baudouin Ii / Jerusalem
BAUDOUIN II or BALDWIN DU BOURG King of Jerusalem (1118-31), belonging to a family of counts of Flanders

Daily Mail Composing Rm
Anxious moments in the Daily Mail composing room

Train Picks up Mail
North-bound train at speed picking up mail bags : the south-bound one is pretty much the same, only in the other direction

Peruvian Postman
Peruvian postmen keep their heads - and the mail which they carry on them - as they negotiate the rapids which are a hazard of the country

French Mail Train 1909
The wagon-poste of a French mail train : the bureau ambulant (mobile sorting office)

Shopping by Mail Order
Shop the modern way from your easy chair; a mail-order advertisement for Sears, Roebuck & Co

On the Footplate
On the footplate of the Night Mail : the railwayman is preparing to catch the sack of mail suspended beside the line

Moldavia Steamship
Royal Mail steamer of the P&O line to the Far East

Highland Patriot Ship
Motor vessel of the Royal Mail Lines

Britannia Cunarder
Passenger liner of the Cunard Line which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ends her career sunk as a target ship

Airship Mail Project
AIR MAIL : a scheme to pick up mail by airship from a moving train is tested in Illinois, but does not seem to have proved practicable

Postman and Junk Mail
A French postman distributes junk mail on behalf of the Bonnard-Bidault advertising agency, Paris

German Mail Coach
A German mail coach bowls through the countryside : the coachman warns the villagers of his imminent arrival by blowing his post-horn

German Mail Coach Snow
A German mail coach makes its way through heavy snow, the horses slipping on the icy road. Young Bismarck is inside the coach, if you care

Holyhead Mail in Snow
The Holyhead and Chester Mails find themselves in heavy snow at Hockley Hill, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire

Brighton Mail in Snow
The Brighton Mail makes its way through a snowstorm on a seasonal Christmas Day

Catching the Mails
A moving train picks up a sack of mail as it passes through a station : the letters can then be sorted on the train

American Stagecoach C18
A mail coach at a Virginian inn - evidently a pre- revolutionary scene, since the inn is named The Royal George

Social / Haiti Postman
A postman on horseback delivers mail to a servant at the gate of a hacienda in Haiti

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