Calls Collection

Police Public Call Box in the snow, London
A Police Public Call Box, on a London street on a snowy day. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937

Canadian Call to Women White Star Line poster
Poster produced by the White Star Line shipping company encouraging women to emigrate to Canada

Police Public Call Box, London
A police officer using a Police Public Call Box on a London street. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937

Poster, All the year round the French Riviera calls you
Poster, French National Railways, All the year round the French Riviera calls you. 1949

Advert promoting the Post Office Telephone Service. Date: 1932

The trumpet calls. Poster shows an Australian soldier blowing a trumpet with other soldiers, in a fox hole(?) with guns, are at his feet

Fable / Old Man & Death
THE OLD MAN & DEATH An old man, exhausted gathering sticks, calls for Death to take him; immediately Death appears, and the man regrets what he wished for

Desmoulins, Palais Royal
In the gardens of the Palais Royal, Camille Desmoulins climbs a table at the Cafe Foi, and - brandishing a pair of pistols - calls the Sunday afternoon crowd to action

Woman on the telephone, postcard
" Hello, are you there?" An early example of cold calling by telemarketers

Metropolitan Police operations room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police operations room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers and telephonists busy taking calls

Cottage in Countryside
A man calls at the door of a thatched cottage in the countryside leaving his horse tethered outside Date: 19th century

Valves Used Between London and New York 1927
One of the great valves in which speech was passed by radio between London and New York, America

First Carlist War (1833-1840). Front of Catalonia
History of Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). Front of Catalonia. Carlist troops under the command of General Juan Antonio Guergue besieged the town of Olot between September and October 1835

RMS Titanic - RMS Virginian Christmas card
RMS Titanic - unusual RMS Virginian Christmas card for December 1912. The Virginian was one of the vessels that took Titanic's distress calls

Louise Hampton in Late Night Final
British actress Louise Hampton (1881-1954) in a publicity photograph for the play Late Night Final at the Phoenix Theatre. Date: 1931

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La Patria en peligro llama a su hijo (The Homeland in Danger Calls her Son). Poster with republican border guards (1936)

MEDIUM IN TRANCE
A medium in trance calls up a spirit of the dead - cover of a popular French manual by Schemahni. Date: circa 1900

LIGEIA "I would call aloud upon her name"; the narrator calls for his dead wife. Date: First published: 1838

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Black Out
The caption is Black Out! a play on the need to cover all windows and lighting so that German bombers could not see their targets, and also putting the cat out

Advert, When Romance Calls, Paramount Pictures. 1926

Advert, Holmeswoods Patent Car for children, October 1888. 1888

American recruitment poster, Columbia Calls, WW1
American recruitment poster, poem by Frances Adams Halsted, design by Vincent Aderente, Columbia Calls, Enlist Now for US Army, First World War. circa 1916

Central telephone exchange 1903
The post office central telephone exchange, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, England. Date: 1903

GARIBALDI / TENNYSON
Garibaldi visits England : he calls on the poet Tennyson at Farringford, on the Isle of Wight. Date: April 1864

New Police - Ambulance call for London 1907
In the streets of London emergency boxes were set up, with a direct line to the police and ambulance service. Date: 1907

SELLING SWEETS ON STREET
Woman selling sweets from a basket calls Voila lplaisir Mesdames, voila lplaisir Date: 19th century

FRENCH CHIMNEYSWEEP
A French chimneysweep walks through the streets calling his trade : the caption calls him a type that is disappearing Date: 1907

Australian Postman
An Australian postman catches up with the news and enjoys a refreshing drink when he calls on a farmer in the bush. Date: circa 1900

MIRACLE / MONT ST MICHEL
A French lady, pious but pregnant, is making a pilgrimage to Mont Saint Michel when she is overtaken by the tide : she calls on the Virgin for help, and is saved Date: 15th century

WITCH WRECKING SHIP
A malicious witch of south- west Scotland calls up a storm which sinks a boat

Dustman and cart collecting refuse
The dustman calls out to householders to bring out their refuse, while his mate tips the buckets into the cart. Date: circa 1840

Cartoon, The London Mission -- Loading the Gun at Exeter Hall. Punch mocks evangelical calls for British military intervention in Tahiti

Young boy shouts out Merry Christmas through the snow, full of life and joy that the Great War is finally over

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- More Men
Lord Kitchener Calls For More Men -- God Save the King. Recruitment poster, issued 19 May 1915. One of thirteen printed posters produced in Britain between August 1914 and March 1916. Date: 1915

The watchroom of Southwark Fire Station, London

Recruitment poster, Wake Up America!, WW1
First World War recruitment poster, Wake Up America! Civilization Calls Every Man Woman and Child

Repeating Pattern - Old style telephones - man and woman. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Heath Robinson
Laundry impressions. The collector calls. One of a set of 6 postcards. Date: circa 1920

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

Chippy Norton - Late Victorian era Bookmaker
Mathew Dawson (18201898) - a British racehorse trainer based at Newmarket. In a career which lasted from 1840 until his death in 1898, he trained the winners of twenty-eight British Classic Races

Mahatma Gandhi cartoon
A cartoon on the subject of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, showing him making international calls on a telephone, with bags of money at his side

Women WW1 Bus Conductress
A girl in the uniform of a bus conductress or Clippie, calls Fares Please. An example of women taking on mens roles during WW1. Date: circa 1915

Fashion respond to emergency calls during the General Strike, with practical suggestions, 1926 Date: 1926

WW1 recruitment poster, Columbia Calls
Recruitment poster, Columbia Calls, Enlist Now for US Army. circa 1918

Poster, Finland calls you. circa 1950s

Can-Can or Skirt Dance
The caption calls it THE SKIRT DANCE but to all intents and purposes its the Can-can. Date: circa 1900

New Year Calls
Paying New Year calls, New York - the lady of the house offers her visitors a drink Date: 1872

Japanese Calls
JAPANESE NEW YEAR A ceremonial greeting accompanied by a gift Date: circa 1860

Ceremonial Calls, China
CHINESE NEW YEAR Merchants exchanging ceremonial calls Date: 1881

The Kiss Call by Fred Thomson
Promotional postcard for The Kiss Call by Fred Thomson from Le Coup de Telephone, a farce, by Paul Gavault and Georges Beer; music Ivan Caryll. First produced at the Gaiety Theatre, 8th October 1919

Illustration, A Song of the English, The Sea
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

WWI Poster, Help fill the War Chest
Design by B A Osnis, Help fill the War Chest. Humanity Calls. American war loan poster. Date: circa 1916

Street telephone fire alarm with group of children
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with a group of children looking up at it

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Two men on switchboard at LFB HQ
Two men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925

LFB Telephone Switchboard - Lambeth HQ, SE1 Date: circa 1930s

Transatlantic telephone system by G. H. Davis
A step-by-step diagram demonstrating the new transatlantic telephone system between Britain and the United States in 1927

States General
Now declared to be of age, Louis calls a seance of the Etats-generaux. Date: 28 October 1614

Everard de Espinquess Tristan and Iseult
" Everard de Espinquess " Tristan and Iseult", written by Gassien de Poiters. Page from the third volume, with Jean Du Mas weapons

LCC-LFB Brigade headquarters station watchroom
The watchroom of Southwark Fire Station

LCC-MFB Firemen in switchboard & control room
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

LFB firefighters working on a roof at a warehouse fire
London firefighters working with hose lines on a warehouse roof at the scene of a fire, Carran Wharf in Upper Thames Street. City of London

Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council Fire Brigade
A horse drawn escape cart and a fire officer belonging to Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe, SE London

LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe

When duty calls. Illustration shows a scene at the front door step of a house, with a young man headed for college

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

Help fill the war chest Humanity calls you, May 20-27. Poster showing hands casting money into a trunk. Date 1917

Metropolitan Police Information Room, London
General view of the Metropolitan Police Information Room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers busy taking calls. In the foreground are the Inspectors and Sergeants positions. Date: May 1974

Delage Mouette
The Delage D8:100 Mouette calls itself a saloon but the body by Henri Chapron gives it sleek sporty lines - and a four-figure price tag (L1075). Date: 1937

Poster, Your Waste Paper is Urgently Needed Now
Wartime salvage poster, Your Waste Paper is Urgently Needed Now, save it for the collector when he calls. 1940s

Poster, In Her Hour of Need Your Country Calls for You. circa 1915

Common Snipe (Morris)

The Warriors Return, satirical postcard
A wounded soldier, drawn as a wooden puppet and carrying his own broken-off leg, looks at a WD (War Department) signpost pointing to the workhouse

A sweeper - India
A sweeper calls. Indian man wearing turban carrying traditional basket and hand broom

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

Death & the Woodcutter
DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER A wretched woodman, worn down by lifes woes and the weight of his load of sticks, calls on Death to relieve him of his suffering

MODERN TELEPHONE
A modern office telephone which enables the operator to put calls on hold before tranferring them

Telephone exchange at Kensington
Drawing by Percy Spence of telephone girls answering calls at the new national telephone exchange at Kensington, London in 1902

First Anglo-French telephone
Illustration showing the completion of the first Anglo-French telephone with callers in London speaking to Paris. Insert picture no

Myth / Flora
Queen Flora calls upon the flowers of the garden after their winter sleep

Dusky Petrel (Morris)
Though Morris calls this a DUSKY PETREL, we know of no bird with that name, and it looks more like a Manx Shearwater than anything else

Various Battlefields
Valleys, mountains, woodland, fields, water, ice - each kind of terrain calls for different military strategies, ranging from incendiary cannon-balls to invasion barges

Street Fighting
Street fighting calls for different skills than pitched battles in open country : French infantry advance cautiously through the streets of a town

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