Communications Collection (page 19)

Poster, Come on the Telephone, designed by E McKnight Kauffer. 1934

Poster, Post That Parcel. 20th century

Poster, The Way to the Complete Home, advertising the need for a telephone. (2 of 2) 20th century

Postman with letters on a Victorian Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Postman delivering a letter on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Postman teddy bear delivering a letter, by Lawson Wood. Date: circa 1900s

Poster, Night Telegraph Letters. 20th century

Poster, Use the Transatlantic Telephone, Europe Welcomes You, designed by Eric C Owen. 1937

Poster, Telegrams to Europe at Half Rates. 20th century

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

Toddler with IRA graffiti, Belfast, Northern Ireland
A toddler stands in front of a wall displaying IRA graffiti, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Building in Brook Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, with a helpful offer: Money Lent On Everything. Date: 1969

Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren. The books in this part of the library date from the 8th century AD to 1830. Date: 1967

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

Ancient radio receiver. Brand Invicta

Italy. Rome. Appian Way. 312 BC. Initiated by the censor Appius Claudius and completed by Augustus. Connected Rome with Brindisi

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

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

Ostia Antica. The Decumanus Maximus. Detail of the paving on a roman road. Italy

Rome. The Appian Way
Roman Art. The Appian Way, connecting Rome to Brindisi and Apulia. Republic era. 312 B.C. Rome. Italy

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

Mail-coach entering an inn
A Mail-coach drawn by four horses, ten minutes behind. Date: 19th century

Common printing press, 1811
Common hand printing press in 1811 Date: 1811

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

Japan - Rural Postman delivering the mail by rickshaw
Japan, Rural Postman delivering the mail by rickshaw. Date: 1908

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

Cherubs posting letter on a Christmas card
Cherubs posting a letter on a three-dimensional Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Bedtime Story
Mother (the one in the rather tasteless dressing gown with a bouffant hairdo), reads a bedtime story to her enthralled son. Date: 1960s

Three Interpreters
Men of many words: These three Belgian exhibition guides have helped hundreds of visitors at the Liege Exhibition, being able to speak seven languages! Date: 1930

tapping Telephone Line
French soldiers tapping telephone wires and listening into conversations at Geneva Junction to hear how disarmament proposals will affect them. Date: early 1920s

Pigeon Post
A German soldier with a carrier pigeon, used for delivering messages during warfare. Date: 1930s

Neon Tube Oscillator
A Neon Tube Rhythmic Oscillator, an ingenious instrument to enable testing of telephonic equipment to be carried out direct from the telephone exchange. Date: March 1933

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