Communication Collection (page 13)

Strike / Wireless Bulletin
Writing down the wireless bulletin so it may be displayed Date: 1926

Communication / Newspapers
THE CHURCH MISSIONARY GLEANER Title page. Date: 1880

Perambulate library 1857
A Gentleman travelling from village to village, wheeling a large box containing a supply of books to rural people. Once they had received their books he would take the next set that they had used to

Transporting the obelisk: Cleopatras needle at sea
The cylinder ship " Cleopatra", with the obelisk at sea, displaying the notice " you can go faster". Date: 1878

Changing horses at the Pony Express Date: circa 1860

The Kings Christmas Speech, 1933
A page from The Sphere December 1933, entitled, The Kings Christmas Speech - how it will be broadcast to the world". Pictured are engineers

Greetings telegram, happy birthday
Greetings telegram with a patriotic design, happy birthday. Date: 1942

Greetings telegram, wedding anniversary, with a border design by C J Bouttell. Date: 1952

Greetings telegram, Golden Wedding anniversary, with a border design by Eric Fraser. Date: circa 1950s

National Flags and international code of signals flags circa 1910

Newspaper rotary printing machine 1908
Newspaper rotary printing machine, by Walter Scott & Co, Plainfield Date: 1908

Envelope, Westminster Foreign Bank Limited, Paris
Envelope, Westminster Foreign Bank Limited, 22 Place Vendome, Paris. France, addressed to The Manager, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. Date: early 1920s

British troops in Palestine patrolling near Jerusalem, 1947
British troops in Palestine keep ceaseless watch against terrorist activities of every description. Men of the 1st Battalion The Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry are here seen patrolling the railway

Telegraph lines crossing the American Great Plains
Telegraph lines running alongside a railway line, crossing the American Great Plains. Date: circa 1880

Advertisement for wool - couple on telephone
Advertisement for wool - a young couple on the telephone - Young Hearted Bright Hearted Wool. 1950s

Music cover, Postmans Holiday Ragtime (Le facteur en ballade), composed by Ezra Read. circa 1895

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

Post Office building, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Post Office building in typical Spanish style, Santa Barbara, California, USA. 1940

V for Victory Brooch - Morse Code for V
V for Victory Brooch in worked (carved) plastic - a red letter V with a bar bearing the Morse Code for V. Date: circa 1941

Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California, USA
Wireless telegraph station on Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California, USA. circa 1910

Example of an early postcard, Argentina, South America
Example of an early postcard from Argentina, South America, postmarked October 1887, addressed with lovely cursive handwriting. Date: 1887

Bell on an envelope with a message -- Will you ring me? For I can tell that you are longing for a [bell]. Date: circa 1890s

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall

Red pillar box on a Christmas card
Red pillar box with robin, holly and mistletoe on a Christmas card. The box opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Winged postman with letters on a New Year card -- May New Year bring from lovers true, Lots of Valentines for you! Date: circa 1890s

Two kittens with letters on a Christmas card
Two kittens with letters and envelopes on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Kitten with letters on a New Year card
Kitten with letters, envelopes and an inkpot on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian Scrap, red pillar box. circa 1880s

A Kite Balloon car over the Western Front, WW1
Two observers in the basket of a kite balloon pictured spotting activity on the ground below. The Kite Balloon section (often known as the balloonatics)

Cartoon, Delivering a letter, WW1
Cartoon, showing a French gendarme rather officiously delivering a letter to a colonel, feeling rather self-important to be part of the war effort. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The tall story, WW1
Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase

Main lobby, Park Hotel, Warren, Ohio, USA
Main lobby of the Park Hotel, Warren, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1905

Major Richardsons war dogs - bringing in a dispatch
Major Richardson, the renowned dog trainer, with two of his messenger dogs. During the Great War, Richardson was commandant of the British War Dog School at Shoeburyness

Post Office building, Mexico City, Mexico
The impressive Post Office building in Mexico City, Mexico. Date: circa 1940

The Dogs of War - trained animals at work at the front
Messenger dogs, trained at the British War Dog School at Shoeburyness, pictured in action delivering messages at the front in a page from the Illustrated London News. Date: 1918

The Red Cross for the Russo-Japanese War
An ambulance dog supplied by Major Edwin Richardson, the renowned dog trainer to the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese war in 1904

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

Pigeons and their motor lorry home at the front, WWI
H.M. " Air" Service - Petrol and Pigeons at the Front. A motor lorry behind the lines, converted into a home for carrier pigeons, used to carry message at the front

Lady conversing with a parrot by Fortunino Matania
A woman in fashionable Victorian dress seated near a window conversing with a pet parrot. A spinning wheel and grandfather clock form part of the backdrop. Date: 20th century

French Pigeon Trainer, Illustrated War News, WW1
A French pigeon trainer with his avian pupils during the First World War. Pigeons, possessing a natural homing instinct, were used extensively as messengers during the conflict. Date: 1917

Satellite at Goonhilly Earth Station, Cornwall
The worlds first parabolic satellite communications antenna, nicknamed Arthur, at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, Goonhilly Downs, near Helston, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Telegraph equipment, alphabet, and machinery, 19th century.. Telegraph equipment, alphabet, and machinery. 19th century communication technology. Copperplate engraving by W

WW2 Christmas card, Good Voyage, Churchill. The message inside the card reads: The Prime Minister, on his passage home in RMS Prince of Wales after the signing of the Atlantic Charter with President

WW2 Christmas card, Victorys Signal. The flaghoist signal used by Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), England expects that every man will do his duty

WW1 - Eastern Front - Soldiers Board train for the front Date: 1917

WW2 greetings card, ATS woman on phone
WW2 pop-up greetings card, ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) woman on the phone. Date: circa 1942

Maintaining lines of communication (roads) - on Aisne Front
WW1 - Maintaining lines of communication (roads) - on Aisne Front Date: 1918

WW1 - The German Ambassador to France delivers ultimatum
Baron Wilhelm von Schoen, German ambassador in Paris at the beginning of World War I assuring interim for Foreign Affairs M

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