Messenger Collection (page 4)

Arrival of a messenger to Lenins headquarters. Russian theoretician and communist leader politician Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov LENIN (1870-1924)

Messenger Boy
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers. Location: Waco, Texas. Date 1913 September

Architectural drawing showing elevation, cross section, and plan for a hirondellier militair, a military aviary for swallows used as messenger birds. Date 1889

Military Pigeon Loft and attendants - Kazakhstan Date: 1904

Messenger dogs billeted behind the front line trenches, soldiers stood by kennels with their dogs Date: 20th century

British pilot with messenger pigeon, WW1
A British seaplane pilot in the cockpit, attaching a message to the leg of a messenger pigeon during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Iris Makes Rainbow
In pre-scientific days, rainbows were credited to Iris, the messenger of the gods : the rainbow was the bridge whereby she came down from the heavens

King & Officers C14Th
A King (in white) with officers of his court Date: 14 Century

Cycle messengers
Bicycling, New York Streets. Group of bicycle messengers in front of the New York Herald building

German bombing patrol WWI
German bombing patrol in a shell hole on the Western Front during World War I. Note the Disc grenades being taken from special carrier attached to messenger dog

Austrian army messenger dogs
Training Austrian Army messenger dogs

German soldiers 1932
The regimental signals platoon with their messenger dog during German military manouevres in 1932 Date: 1932

Footman from Sais, Egypt
A Footman from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing a fine patterned waistcoat / jerkin and holding a long thin stick

Two Egyptian Footmen
A hand-tinted card depicting two footmen from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing white tunics, patterned waistcoat and sashes and holding long sticks

Oedipus Tyrannus 5
left, a messenger : right, Oedipus, having blinded himself, embraces his children, before taking to the roads as a wanderer with his daughter Antigone

Oedipus Tyrannus 4
Tiresias, blind soothsayer who foretells gloom and woe : a messenger from Corinth who brings bad news : a herdsman of Laius who has disquieting revelations

Greece Marathon
Site of the battle of 490 BCE when a Greek army (mainly Athenian) defeated the very much larger force of Persian invaders. A messenger ran back to Athens with the news

Deva / Messenger
a Messenger of the Cosmos

DELIVERING WOMANs OWN
This smart young man, dressed in a suit and trilby, is apparently delivering copies of the womens magazine Womans Own

Costume / Men / German 18C
A German messenger of the royal court in red tunic

Messenger Boys / 1913
Messenger boys

Officer in Indian Home
A civilian officer of the Bombay Staff Corps is brought a letter by a messenger - barked at by his dog - while his servant provides a pot of tea

Phonograph Exhibited
The PHONOGRAPH is demonstrated at a London exhibition, attracting the interest of many, including a Post Office messenger boy

Jap Messenger Dogs
During the war between Japan and China, the Japanese use dogs to carry despatches in the siege of Shanghai

Norman Conquest 11 of 16
A messenger tells of Harolds approach, and William prepares for battle, burning down an inconvenient building

Norman Conquest Detail
A messenger tells of Harolds approach

Pigeon with Message
A messenger pigeon with message strapped to foot (Columbidae species)

Lightfoot Given Letter
HEREWARD THE WAKE Martin Lightfoot undertakes to be the bearer of a letter to Earl Leofric

Letter of Attestment
authorising David Fraser, Messenger at Arms, to seize property of 4 members of the Stewart family, to the value of L500, owing to Francis Fraser, trader of Edinburgh

Telegraph / Australia / 1891
Australian Telegraph messenger

Futuristic recorded message
In the year 2000, people will send messages one to another in the form of wax cylinders, recorded on the senders gramophone, delivered by messenger, then played by the recipient

Alice, King, Rabbit
WHITE KING Alice and the White King and Rabbit Messenger

Alice: humpty & Messenger
Humpty-Dumpty screams into the ear of the messenger

Norman Conquest 3 of 16
William, duke of Normandy, told that Guy de Ponthieu is holding Harold captive, sends messengers to order his release Date: 1064

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