Call Collection (page 6)

Talking on the telephone, postcard
" I don t know why ou botherd to send me a postcard, a phone call would have been much quicker!" - the declining post card industry pokes fun at itself in 1915. 1915

A Glasgow newspaper seller

The greatest mother in the world - Red Cross Christmas roll call Dec. 16-23rd. Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Date c1918

Third Red Cross roll call. Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding out her hands. Date 1918

First call - I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call. Poster showing Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Date c1917

Join the Red Cross - all you need is a heart and a dollar Red Cross Christmas roll call, Dec. 16-23. Poster showing a Red Cross nurse in a cloak, extending her hand. Date 1917

Red Cross Christmas roll call December 16th to 23rd. Poster showing a figure of Columbia holding a pen, and a Red Cross nurse with a scroll, inscribed Where Columbia sets her name

The roll call, a masque of the Red Cross, by Percy MacKaye. Poster showing a draped figure reaching upward toward the insignia of the Red Cross. Date 1918

I summon you to the comradeship - Woodrow Wilson Answer the Red Cross Christmas roll call for universal membership. Poster showing a portrait of Woodrow Wilson. Date 1918

The poor boys friend, the proprietor call himself. Omaha, Nebraska. Date 1938 Nov. The poor boys friend, the proprietor call himself. Omaha, Nebraska. Date 1938 Nov

Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. June 22, 1927. Date 1927 June 22

Good Luck Postcard - WWI era - wishing the recipient a Safe Return from posting to France and Belgium. " When duty caled, you answered and bravely took your stand

Call to prayer - Dobrogea, Romania
Turkish Mullah (Hoja / Hodja) outside a mosque at Dobrogea, Romania calling out the call to prayer from a raised platform. Date: circa 1906

Policeman on the Phone
A young policeman makes a telephone call. Date: 1960s

Shall I Call Him?
A young woman decides who to call, or perhaps shes licking the receiver! Date: 1960s

OH REALLY?
Blonde woman on the telephone. Date: 1960s

Stressed Secretary
A stressed-out secretary or typist answers an unpleasant telephone call. Date: 1978

Good Wives - 4
Jo and Amy pay a call. Date: first published 1869

American army recruit taking aptitude test, WW1
An American army recruit (left) taking an aptitude test during the First World War, fitting wooden shapes into holes. The man on the right is timing him with a stopwatch. Date: 1917-1918

British Nurse off to the Western Front
Our Girls - Answering the Call A Young British girl sets out across the English Channel en route to the horrors of the Western Front

Scout Log Cabin Rockerfeller Centre, New York
A log cabin (with roof and chinks fortified against wind and cold) erected by a Troop of Boy Scouts atop the 70th floor roof of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York

Poster, A Call to Arms, Your Country Needs You Today. circa 1915

Hyena / Sentry Call 1845
An aggressive hyena forces a sentryman to call for help. Date: circa 1845

Racial / Japan / 3 Women
Three Japanese women on an afternoon call Date: early 20th century?

Evening Coat 1913
Wonderfully exotic theatre coat using 2 fabrics - a plain blue & a red & white floral design. The cuffs & hem are trimmed in fur. N.B the unusual feather headdress. Date: 1913

Programme cover for The Kiss Call, 1919
Programme cover for The Kiss Call at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 1919. Artwork by Dolly Tree. Date: 1919

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1939
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman engrossed in a telephone conversation, wearing a dark-blue puffed-shoulder dress

Sir Charles Wyndham (1837 - 1919). English actor, who was born Charles Culverwell."

The Monarch 120 Call Connect System
A secretary or receptionist uses a new electronic post office telecommunications device/switchboard unit. A promotional photograph for the Monarch 120 Call Connect System

Constantinople - Muezzin - Call to prayer in village of Rumeli Hisari

Alpine Strawberries (these are probably what we would call Wild Strawberries)

Tut, Tut! By Bert Thomas
The Driver: My pals call the old bus George Robey ! His Friend: Why? The Driver: Thats easy. Because its in Bits and Pieces

Muezzin - Call to Prayer, Constantinople
A Muezzin - the call to prayer from a Mosque overlooking the Bosphorus (likely to be a Mosque at Kuzguncuk). Visible across the Bosphorus is the European side

Last Port Of Call
Glamorous socialites stopping at a coffee stall to get a night cap

Study in Still Life by Thomas Maybank
Two spinsters sit with their luggage, unaware that a World War One recruitment poster stating " A Call to Arms - Men Wanted" is making them look rather foolish

The London Scottish role call after the charge at Messine

Knock Out at a Boxing Match, c. 1896
Engraving showing the end of a boxing match, c.1896. On the left, the beaten boxer lies on the ground, as the referee, in top hat, enters the ring to call the end of the match

Woman making a telephone call, West Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a female citizen of West Berlin making a call from a public telephone box, August 1948. At that time, the fact that this telephone had a steel cable to secure the handset to

Abd El Qadir
Abd-el Qadir (variously spelt) agrees to support Napoleon as emperor and to call an end to Algerian resistance to French dominion

Taking the Roll Call on an Emigrant Ship, 1850
Engraving showing the passengers of an emigrant ship gathered on the quarterdeck for the roll call, 1850

Travelling telephone in use on a express train
A travelling call office, a telephone in use on an American express train. The train ran from Salt Lake, Utah to the mining camp of Ely, Nevada

Matabele / Call to Arms
A Matabele call to arms

The Shop on board R. M. S. P. Avon, 1921
Illustration of the shop on board the liner Avon, during its passage to South America, 1921. Sketches of local salesmen visiting the ship at its ports of call can be seen at top left and bottom left

Doctor Checks his Diary
A nurse hands the telephone over to a doctor, who checks his appointments diary

Territorials Card C1914
A card celebrating the brave members of the territorial army as they answer the call to war

Fire Brigade Office 40S
An emergency call comes in to Durham County Fire Brigade

Automatic telephone-girls: Operators replaced by machines
A diagram of the mechanical telephone exchange, showing what happens once the number is dialled to when the call is received

Trumpeters Trumpeting
Trumpeters of the Sachsen Armeekorps sound the call for officers to report to divisional headquaters

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