Communications Collection (page 9)

AR1 Aircraft-Radio Receiver installed in a light aircraft
AR1 Aircraft-Radio Receiver installed in a light, privately-owned aircraft. It could be used to receive weather reports and navigational warnings

Telegram congratulations, new baby. 1949

Christmas Card, Puppy with telephone and holly - Hold On. 20th century

The Illustrated London News - publishing office 1843
Saturday scene at The Illustrated London News publishing office. 1843

WWII Post Office reservists, September 1939
Post office reservists of the Royal Corps of Signals arriving in London to augment the telephone and communications staff in government offices in the early days of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Inland revenue envelope, c. 1920s
An prepaid envelope for the collection of income tax, addressed Inverness, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

Sorting the Christmas Mail on Christmas Eve
Sorting the Christmas Mail Christmas Eve at the London General Post Office. 1892

Interior of the General Post Office, London. 19th century

Telephone operator, Mayfair Exchange, London
Telephone operator surrounded by wires at the Mayfair Exchange, London, Ocober 1932. 1932

Photography by wireless radio, taking one hour and three minutes from London to New York. 1926

First transatlantic wireless service, Glace Bay, Canada
First transatlantic wireless service at Glace Bay, Canada - Guglielmo Marconi is third from the left. 1907

Procession of the parcel post round St Pauls Cathedral, City of London. 1847

CS Patrick Stewart, British cable ship, Reshire, Middle East
CS Patrick Stewart, British cable ship, at Reshire, Middle East (Persian Gulf). Date: 1907

Mailomat coin-operated mailbox, USA, for people who have letters to post but no stamps, made by Pitney-Bowes. Date: 1940s

Envelope with stamps sent from Addis Ababa to Paris
Envelope with stamps from the Royal Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to an address in Paris, France. Date: 1932

Handwritten address on a letter with red sealing wax
Handwritten address on a letter to the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth (John Wallop, 1767-1853), 61 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, from Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), British Prime Minister

Handwritten note from R G Ingersoll to R R Conklin, possibly part of a letter, dated 9 December 1890. Robert G Ingersoll (1833-1899) was an American lawyer, politician and freethinker

Letter from The Englishwomans Domestic Magazine
Handwritten letter from The Englishwomans Domestic Magazine, London, a publication of Samuel Orchart Beeton, husband of Isabella Beeton

Envelope sent via British Embassy diplomatic bag in April 1978 (when the Mary Evans Picture Library was located at a different but nearby address in London SE3). Date: 1978

Businessman dictating to secretary 1903
Businessman dictating to secretary. Date: 1903

Advert for Telephone Development Association 1929
Less than a crown a week, to rent a telephone, Paying nothing to be installed and pay nothing for calls or to receive. Date: 1929

Telegraph poles for railway, Tanganyika, East Africa
Men holding up cast iron telegraph poles destined to run along the railway line in Tanganyika, East Africa (then part of the British Empire, now Tanzania). Date: 1922

Base Post Office near fighting lines, WW1
A Base Post Office on the Western Front near fighting lines, 31 October 1914, First World War. 1914

Colonel Ashley with Chelsea Pensioners, WW1
Colonel Ashley explaining modern signal methods to Chelsea Pensioners during the First World War. 1914-1918

Girl at a post box on a Valentine card. Date: circa early 20th century

Santa Claus with list and post on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1950s

Times Office in Basra, Iraq, WW1
Times Office in Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Civil and Telegraph Office, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Civil and Telegraph Office, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Christmas mail going to the Front, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Christmas mail going to the Front, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Early Victorian General Postman. 19th century

Postman cat handing over some letters. Date: circa 1890s

Television magazine cover, April 1932, The Worlds First Television Journal, listing BBC television programmes. 1932

A Wireless Station on the Western Front
A wireless station installed in an old loft on the Western Front. Packing cases and roughly made tables serve as furniture and two operators, wearing the wireless receivers

Naval Signal announcing the Armistice, WW1
Handwritten Naval Signal announcing the Armistice, from the Navy Office at Southend, dated 11 November 1918, marking the end of the First World War. 1918

Naval Signal, surrender of German Fleet, WW1
Naval Signal announcing the surrender of the German Fleet at the end of the First World War, 21 November 1918. 1918

Canadian poster, Send More Men, WW1
Canadian poster, Send More Men -- Won t You Answer the Call, First World War. 1915

British soldiers carrying telegraph wire, WW1
British soldiers carrying telegraph wire for communication purposes, the Battle of the Bridges, Western Front, First World War

Laying Telephone Wire, by Colin Gill, WW1
Laying Telephone Wire, painting by Colin Gill, First World War. circa 1918

Telegraph company, St Vincent Island, Cape Verde Islands
Entrance to Western Telegraph Companys offices and cable station, St Vincent (Sao Vicente) Island, Cape Verde Islands, Atlantic Ocean. 1922

Mailboat at Ceuta, Spanish city in Morocco, North Africa
Mailboat ferry Victoria at Ceuta (operating between Ceuta and Algeciras), Spanish city in Morocco, North Africa. Date: circa 1940

Steamer at Ceuta, Spanish city in Morocco, North Africa
Steamer (mailboat) General Sanjunio at Ceuta, Spanish city in Morocco, North Africa. Date: circa 1930

Central telephone exchange 1903
The post office central telephone exchange, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, England. Date: 1903

Guglielmo Marconi - Radio Project 1930, The Elettra at Genoa
Guglielmo Marconi, Radio Project 1930, The Elettra at Genoa sporting Marconis radio antenna. Date: 1930

Variety of Telegraph machinery including a Single needle telegraph of Cooke Date: circa 1850

Stock Share Certificate - Collins Radio Company, 100 shares. 1967

Moving Post Office in Worcestershire 1909
Ombersley in Worcestershire had a service were a travelling bus with a post box fixed to the rear, when passing two or three times daily you could post your letters

The Secret Office at the General Post Office, 1844
The Secret Office, at the General Post Office in London, 1844. Letters were opened and re-sealed in the Secret Office under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. 1844

Knot porter 1746
Knot porter from London, carrying lots of parcels on his back. 1746

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