Communication Collection (page 11)

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Poster, Air Mail, designed by Lee-Elliott. 20th century

Poster, Christmas Greetings to Ships at Sea. 20th century

Poster, Telegrams, in black, grey and beige. 20th century

Poster, Mails for East and South Africa, India, Malaya etc. 20th century

Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, USA
Interior, Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

Pigeons for message-carrying WWI
Going going gone! During the First World War, homing pigeons were used extensively to transport messages back to their home coop behind the lines. 1917

Naval Signals - Commercial Code Signalling - How are you?
Naval Code Signals - Signalling Flags - How are you? Commercial Code Flags (1857-1900). How are you is signalled (apprently) by the code letters D, W and F. Date: circa 1900

Find the Fault card No. 5 -- telephone kiosk. circa 1930s

Rowland Hill (1795-1879). Engraving. Colored
Rowland Hill (1795-1879). British teacher and creator of the first postage stamp, the Penny Black. Engraving by Capuz in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1879. Colored

Quadrant telegraph by Breguet
Quadrant telegraph by Louis Francois Clement Breguet (1804-1883). Nineteenth century colored engraving

Petroglyph National Monument. Petroglyphs. New Mexico. USA
Prehistoric Art. USA. Petroglyph National Monument. Petroglyphs made A?a?A?a?by American Indian people and some of them, by settlers. Boca Negra Canyon. Near Albuquerque. New Mexico

Radio-receiver with superheterodyne circuit, 4 valves, only AM reception, model G175. 1952. Gelosa, Italy. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Automatic central battery telephone. Model 27. Siemens. 1927. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Carborundum radio-receiver. 1917. Officine Marconi, Genova. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Egypt. The Spanish frigate Berenguela by the Suez Canal, the first large-scale ship that carried out A?a?A?a?the voyage. Colored engraving from 1870

Telephone service in Madrid. Central office. Colored engraving, 1886

Experiments on the phone from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), to transmit the human voice over long distances. Boston, 1877. United States. 19th-century colored engraving

Telephone central office. Switching room and telephonists. Milan. Italy. Engraving. Coloured

World War I. Telephone in a trench
FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918). Telephone set in a trench. (France, 1915)

Postal censorship during World War I
Photograph showing condemned goods taken from the mail and stored to await the decision of the Prize Court. Date: 1917

Postal censorship during World War 1
Photograph taken in the Censors Museum which shows attempts which used to be made to smuggle food into Germany through the newspaper post

The campaign against Evil Communications
Page showing a series of photographs depicting the elaborate work of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain: the laboratory where suspicius matter is chemically examined

The postal censorship: sorting mails and examining letters
Page showing a series of photographs which depict aspects of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain. The first two photographs show preliminary distribution of mail bags

The postal censorship: deciphering languages
Page showing a series of photos depicting some medals intercepted from Germany, as well as letters marked as photographs which contained rubber and leather instead

Little girl on the telephone on a Valentine card -- Hello! Yes I ll be your Valentine. Date: early 20th century

The Newsman, delivery a news sheet to a house. 19th century

Christmas card, Robins posting Christmas Greetings. 20th century

Boy Posting Letter - Hope this reaches you. early 20th century

Police officers at work in communications room
Police officers, male and female, at work in a Met Police communications room. Date: circa early 1970s

Woman police officer at work in communications room
Woman police officer at work in front of a computer screen in a Met Police communications room. Date: circa late 1970s

Two women police officers working at Kingston police station. One of them is looking after a little girl, while the other is on the telephone. Date: circa early 1970s

Alexandria, Egypt - The Semaphore - Fort Mex. Date: circa 1905

Male and female police officers in Westminster, London
Male and female police officers (Sue Maudsley on the left) in Westminster, central London, with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background

Woman police officer on telephone in a London street
Woman police officer on the telephone of a police public call post in a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Two women police officers on duty in London
Two women police officers on duty in a London street, one of them on a police telephone reading from a notebook, the other one (Annette Payne) in the background with a member of the public

Obituary notice form, Daily Express newspaper, London
Blank obituary notice form, Daily Express newspaper, Fleet Street, London EC4. Date: circa 1930s

Germans / Forest 1940
German officers dictating reports in the forest of Campiegne, France Date: 21 June 1940

Great railway strike, newspapers by aeroplane 1919
Railway strike brought aerial transport even more to the front than usual, daily newspapers and mail were delivered, even at the very beginning of the strike, almost at normal times. October 1919

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