Off Ice Collection (page 12)

Mail Sorting Office
Postal workers at the General Post Office (Britain), manually sorting mail into pigeon holes

At a Printing Office
A force of Communards prepare to requisition a printing- office, to produce posters and handbills in the Communard cause

The London Office of the Society for the relief of the sick
A sketch of volunteers sorting and packing linen bandages for the sick

Scotland Yard / Convicts
The Convict Office

GPO EXETER
The self-service section of the General Post Office at Exeter offering change, postal orders and stamped stationery

Lost Property Office 1 / 2
Two ladies in 1920s fashion of cloche hats and furs check through the New Scotland Yard Lost Property Office racks for their missing umbrellas. Metropolitan Police

Lost Property Office 2 / 2
An employee of the New Scotland Yard Lost Property Office examines a childs toy wooden horse amid the myriad abandoned and forgotten items, from suitcases to a pair of antlers

Criminal Record Offce
Checking fingerprints on the computer at the Criminal Record Office of New Scotland Yard. Metropolitan Police

Criminal Record Office
Examining fingerprints at the Criminal Record Office looking through a microscope at New Scotland Yard. Metropolitan Police

Fire Brigade Office 40S
An emergency call comes in to Durham County Fire Brigade

The Central Post Office Telegraph Establishment
Series of sketches showing different departments of the Central Telegraph Establishment at the General Post Office in London

Instrument gallery of the Central Telegraph Office
Telegraphists at work in the instrument gallery of the Central Telegraph Office in Newgate Street, London, 1874

Autographic telegraphy
D Arlincourts autographic telegraph, able to transmit a copy of handwriting by electric currents. Several versions based on a similar principle were in circulation during the mid-19th century

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; Fly clot
Illustration showing protective clothing for horses and other animals to prevent them being bothered by flies and other insects

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; More wet
Illustration showing ideas for protective rain wear in the form of various rain shades and capes worn on the head and body

Sketches at the Central Telegraph Establishment
Sketches showing scenes and different types of apparatus used at the Central Telegraph Establishment at the General Post Office, including the type printing telegraph

Dunstan, Archbishop
Saint DUNSTAN, archbishop of Canterbury Beside his regular staff of office, he is depicted holding the tongs with which he tweaked the Devils nose

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; A marine
A sketch showing an example of a curious design sent to the Patent Office in 1920, of a marine life saving apparatus which was also submersible

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; Curious
Sketch of a cross section of a curious apparatus for securing oysters. Two men work in a submarine-like pod at the bottom of the sea, scooping up oysters with a rake

Vigil outside the C. P. R, relatives and friend awaiting news
At the Liverpool office of the C.P.R. Relatives and friends of passengers on the Empress of Ireland making inquiries at the Canadian Pacific Railway offices in Cockspur Steet

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; A boat d
An illustration showing a cross-section of a boat propelled by windmills, cruising along a country river

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; An arran
Illustration representing an idea for a piece of machinery that enabled a dog or cat to drive a small machine

Curiosities from the Patent Office; Safety Suit for Aviators
Illustration showing a safety suit for aviators from 1921. The suit takes the form of a parachute attached to the wearer in two parts, one to the torso and one to the head

Curiosities from the Patent Office; Support for cigarettes
Illustration showing a device to be attached to the face for holding a cigar or cigarette adjacent to the mouth, which apparently prevented a careless smoker from laying down a lighted cigarette

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; Helmet w
An illustration of a curious design sent to the Patent Office in 1920, showing a man wearing a hat with a gun mounted on it

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; A person
An illustration showing a curious design sent to the Patent Office in 1920, of a bizarre head covering with design features such as a window and ventilation

Police Careers Team
The Metropolitan Police Careers Team opposite the Houses on Parliament with their mobile office van preparing for their tour of N.E. Scotland

Sir Reginald Hanson
SIR REGINALD HANSON Lord Mayor Elect of London in 1886

England / Philadelphia
The corner Post Office in Philadelphia, not the Philadelphia in the U.S.A. the small mining village in Tyne and Wear, Newcastle

England / Albury
A glimpse of Albury, a Surrey hamlet with a delightful valley. Note the fine, intricate details on the various chimney stacks

Phone Message
A secretary writes down a phone message

Taking Dictation / 1960S
A secretary taking dictation

Rail / Liverpool / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The railway office in Liverpool at Crown Street station

Aertex telephone user
Advertisement from 1924 for Aertex underwear showing a businessman or office worker taking a telephone call at his desk

The Motor in Mail Service
A new delivery-car for the Post Office

Trans-atlantic telephone service opening
The official opening of the radio telephone service between London and New York. Mr Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, speaking to Sir Evelyn Murray

Conscription / Russia 1941
Young men register to join the Russian army. Conscription was introduced on 23 June 1941

Office Mail Distributed
A clerk distributes the morning mail to individual office desks

London Telegraph Office
The Instrument Gallery at the Central Telegraph Office, London

Scarborough P. O
The Post Office at Scarborough, Yorkshire (England)

Carriages Taken by Train
A fascinating picture showing the arrival at a countryside terminus of a steam train transporting two stagecoaches which are unloaded to depart onward by road

Something Wrong Somewher
SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE A shopkeeper and his wife can t get their books to balance

Comms / Telegraph Office
A telegraph office in Berlin

TYPIST & BOSS, 1890
A lady typist and her employer

Kitchener / War Office
HORATIO, LORD KITCHENER Kitchener as Secretary for War receiving the late Lord Roberts in his room at the War Office

Sliding Partitions
These sliding partitions are being used to subdivide a schoolroom, but they could be used in a private home or an office

Gresham College 18C
Gresham College as it appeared before it was taken down to build an Excise Office

Slack Day in Office
A slack day in the office

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