Communications Collection (page 11)

Young Jockey on a rocking horse posting a letter
D you know that you owe me a letter? I fear you re an awful forgetter, or are you a jockey to boast how often you re passing the post? 1934

Botanical Book Date: 1880

Technicians Hands Date: 1954

Using Dictation Machine Date: 1954

Rotary Press Date: 1941

Old Woman Reads Letter Date: 1941

Radio Broadcaster Date: 1941

Nurse on Telephone Date: 1948

Woman Amazed by Phone Date: 1948

Reel-to-Reel Recorder Date: 1950

Daughter at Work Day Date: 1950

Pilot Talks To Tower Date: 1947

Early Recording Machine

Telephone Technician

Mauritius - Port Louis - General Post Office - now the Mauritius Postal Museum Date: circa 1909

French Commander directing operations from tree top 1917
Birds-eye view of the battle behind the lines, showing two French Commanders with periscope and map, directing operations and sending their strategy back to the front lines. Date: 1917

Gibbs Happy Families - Mrs Pipe the Plumbers wife. Date: 20th century

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (1874 - 1937), Irish-Italian inventor and electrical engineer. Marconi photographed with his wireless invention, telegraphy instrument. Date: 1901

Baby Scouts -- telegraph wire
Baby Scouts -- While Tiny, aged just ten months and a half, brings scouting messages by telegraph. Date: 1900

Advert for Carters reading stands 1906
Holding a book, writing pad, lamp in any position. Date: 1906

USE THE AIR MAIL POSTER
Poster advertising air mail saying Use the Air Mail, The Fastest Mail. Date: 1933

That School-Girl Complexion! by Topham 1926
A picture of a girl with pen ink on her face and fingers. Date: 1926

First regular air mail, England to Australia 1934
First regular air mail from England to Brisbane in Australia, Sir Kingsley Wood making his speech. Leaving from Croydon, London in Imperial Airways liner. Date: 8 December 1934

Air mail leaving Croydon for Karachi, India 1929
The first air mail service between Croydon, England and Karachi, India. Inaugurated by Armstrong-Siddeley Argosy air liner of Imperial Airways, arriving on 6 April. Date: 30 March 1929

New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846
New Inland department of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand in London. Date: 1846

Daily Chronicle newspaper 1900
Making curved plates for offset printing, on cylinders. Date: 1900

Waiting for the mail train 1890s
Two officers of the Post Office fixing the mail-bag to the post outside Bletchley station on for the London and North Western Railway

Travelling rail post office 1890s
Her Majestys mail-carriers, sorting letters on the London and North Western railway with speeds of sixty miles an hour. Date: circa 1890s

News of Franco-Prussian War 1870
London street scene of the news of Franco-Prussian War. Date: July 1870

General Post Office London 1890s
Women at work in the General Post Office tube room at St Martins-le-Grand in the City of London. The room had pneumatic tube connections to post office establishments. Date: circa 1890s

Shrewsbury Grammer School - library 1861
Library was erected in 1595, but underwent considerable alterations in 1815. Square-headed windows at the ends were replaced by the pointed windows seen in the engraving. Date: 1861

New public pillar post box 1857
New freestanding public post box of 1857, set up in the streets of Metropolis, designed by A. Copper, C.E. of Great George Street and Mr. W. J Wills superintended the ornamentation. Date: 1857

DEAF / DUMB LANGUAGE
The sign language for the hands, devised by the Abbe lEpee for the benefit of the deaf and dumb. Date: circa 1770

DEAF-DUMB SIGN LANGUAGE
The Dumb Alphabet - a girl demonstrates the art of communicating with the deaf and dumb. Date: 1801

TELEPHONE ENGINEERS
Three G.P.O. engineers, happy in their work, think nothing of sorting out a mind-boggling mess of telephone wires and cables. Date: early 1930s

WOMAN ON PHONE / 1970S
A woman using the telephone, hopefully to book a hair appointment. Date: 1960s

MAN ON PHONE / 1970S
A man on the telephone Date: 1970s

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

LADY WRITES LETTER
A lady sits and thinks about what to write in her letter. Date: 1960s

Woman reading letters
A dark haired lady sits on a sofa reading through a bundle of old letters. Date: 1960s

GIRL IN PHONE BOX
A young woman puts 1/- (a shilling) into a public pay phone in a telephone box. Only 6d (sixpence) or 1/- coins accepted. Dial 100 for the operator. Those were the days. Date: 1960s

DEVON POSTMAN 1938
At Hartland Quay, Devon, at 16 miles (the furthest in England) from the nearest railway station, the postman delivers the afternoon, and only daily mail. Date: 1938

GIRL ON TELEPHONE
A little business woman: A little girls sits at a desk and takes a telephone call. Date: 1930s

ROYAL TYPEWRITER
A typist using a Royal manual typewriter. Date: 1930s

BELLS TELEPHONE / BOSTON
Bells Salem-Boston demonstration. Date: late 19th century

BELLS PHOTOPHONE / C19TH
Bells photophone. Date: late 19th century

1930S GIRL ON THE PHONE
A handsome young woman smiles as she enjoys a telephone conversation with a friend. Date: 1930s

TELEPHONE BOX / C19TH
Telephone kiosk at Marseille Bourse. Date: 19th century

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