Communications Collection (#35)

Communications trench WWI
Placing barbed wire over a communications trench on the Oise during World War I

French marine WWII
A French marine in charge of a set of guns waits for the order to fire during World War II

Austrian army messenger dogs
Training Austrian Army messenger dogs

Printing Presses at Daily Mirror Works
A close-up view of one of the printing presses at the Daily Mirror works, where the newspapers were printed (far below ground level). Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works
Part of the Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works, facilitating the delivery of newsprint by day and the despatch of completed newspapers at night. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Children broadcasting WWII
British children broadcasting from New York during World War II. Martin Clemser (2.5 years), son of R. Glemser of the BBC and Josephine Martin (4 years), daughter of William H

Wireless Operator School, WWII
Wireless Operator School, during World War II. Practical telegraphy, receiving and sending on long wire circuits. Preparing for the War Emergency Certificate which means completing the course in

Observer Corps Centre, World War II

Portable recorder, WWII
A portable recorder which is later used to transmit the recording by shortwave, during World War II

Reuter Telegraph Messenger Girl, London
A wonderful card depicting a female employee (Messenger) of the Reuter Telegraph Company

Poster advertising the telephone
Poster designed by E McKnight Kauffer, encouraging people to use the telephone to make contact with the world

Gustav Hamel leaving Hendon for Windsor
The aviator Gustav Hamel leaving Hendon Aerodrome for Windsor on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor and back again

Frost covered telephone wires
Telephone wires weighed down by frost and ice in Albert on the Western Front in France during World War I in February 1918

Battles of Arras 1918
Canadian Signal Service laying cables over newly captured ground at Neuville Vitasse during the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918

Delville Wood 1916
A British communications trench is dug through Delville Wood, which has been devastated by the heavy fighting in the area during the opening months of the Somme campaign

Despatch rider 1917
A motorcycle despatch rider in the snow at St. Pol in France on the British front during World War I in December 1917

Signal Service dugout
An Army Signal Service dugout in Lindhoek on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Raising telegraph poles
A group of workers erect a telegraph pole with the help of a winch on the back of a truck

U. S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road
U.S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road, Lashio, Burma - January / February, 1945. Japanese supply and communications lines were pounded during the battle for the strategic ground north of this

Women Reading Mags 1919
Two fashionable French women read fashionable French magazines

Admiral Sir Henry Jackson / Stamp
SIR HENRY BRADWARDINE JACKSON Admiral of the Fleet and pioneer of wireless telegraphy

The Right Number by Pierrot
Illustration of an elegant flapper girl, dressed seemingly only in lingerie speaking on the telephone

Italian Airmail Warehouse
View of an Italian Airmail Warehouse (Aero Espresso Italiana) with a British seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Eat More Fish by de Rosa
Humorous illustration showing a gentleman relaxing as he bobs in the sea using a rubber ring, reading in his newspaper about eating more fish

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

28 March Iln Page
A page from the Illustrated London news describing the opening of the inland sea ports of Japan on 1 January 1868, including two engravings of Hiogo, near Osaka

London Opinion 1935
A jolly looking woman wearing a party dress and paper hat opens the top of an old wireless set, ready to play some tunes perhaps

Communication between Berlin and Istanbul
The hotline between Constantinople and Berlin (also the railway line/route/connections) during the First World War

Listening In
That aerial vibration. A bird pecking on the aerial of a man using a homemade radio set. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Article on Pantechnicon
A page from the Illustrated London News with an article on the burning of the Belgrave Pantechnicon, a fire that destroyed most of the building

Pantechnicon Fire Report
Page of The Graphic featuring an article on the burning of the Pantechnicon in Belgravia, a fire that destroyed most of the building complex

A THRILLER
A young women, cigarette holder perched artfully between her lips reads a sensational novel, her eyes wide at the contents

A British observation-officer testing his communications equ
A British observation-officer testing the communications equipment which allowed him to speak to the ground when aloft in his kite-balloon

Breakdown Communication
An American couple on their honeymoon bring out the phrase book hoping to understand what the European railway official is trying to tell them

Learning to Type
A young woman learns to type at a secretarial school, on a massive manual machine

Radio in Ww1
A British radio post on the Western Front during World War One

Mail Wagon Moldavia
Carrying the mail in Moldavia, eastern Europe

A Friend in Need
Humorous illustration showing a little girl helping a small terrier dog to reach up to post a letter

Chinese Official
A Chinese official reads a message brought to him by a courier

Egyptian Writing
Egyptian hieroglyphs developed the scope of visual symbols to an extraordinary degree, graphic as well as decorative

Electric Telegraph in US
The electric telegraph in use during the American Civil War: General Ulyssess Grant and his operator

Arabian Script
Apart from its practicality, the Arabs developed the art of calligraphy to supreme heights, using it to ornament buildings and objets d art

Wampum Message
Wampum beadwork is not merely a decorative object, but is a method of recording treaties, agreements, historic events and the like, which it is desired to preserve

Iran / India Mscript
Page from a book of Sunni devotional poetry, scribed in nasta liq script from northern India or eastern Persia. The miniature may show a teacher giving instruction

Language Students
London telephone girls being taught French and German in a classroom

Arthur Rackam, Autograph
The autograph of the English book illustrator Arthur Rackham, with accompanying drawing

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

Secret Library Doorway
A young Edwardian boy discovers a secret doorway in the library, concealed behind the false panel of a bookcase

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