Off Ice Collection (page 9)

Australian Commonwealth celebrations
The inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1st January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia

Mevagissey coastguard
The uniformed coastguard at Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, sits in his office and takes a phone call, perhaps an emergency call

Metropolitan Police fingerprint database
A man sits at a monitor to look at fingerprints on the Metropolitan Police database

Slate used on office building, Slate Wharf, Caernarfon
Terracotta, yellow brick and Caernarfon slate used on an office building on Slate Wharf in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, North Wales

London County Council Night Office, Charing Cross Bridge
Applicants waiting outside the London County Councils Night Office at Charing Cross Bridge, Central London. The Office had telephone links to the citys casual wards, as well as to the Salvation Army

London County Council welfare staff
Staff in an office at a London County Council welfare establishment interview a homeless man

Printing Office at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway
Printing office at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, East London. In 1870, Thomas Barnardo set up a home for destitute boys at 18-26 Stepney Causeway

Manchester Board of Guardians Offices
The Manchester Board of Guardians Offices at All Saints, Manchester

Hull Poor Law Guardians
A Board of Guardians was elected annually by the ratepayers of Hull, Yorkshire, to administer poor relief in the city. This group portrait of the 1912 Board - all men - was taken in front of the main

Shimla, India - The Telegraph Office
The Telegraph Office at Shimla, originally called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India

Calcutta, India - Telegraph Office

Cherat - North West Frontier Province
Post and Telegraph Office at Cherat - a hill station in Nowshera District in the North West Frontier Province (now Pakistan)

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Information Ministry Building. Photo (33/40) from a fold-out set

Port Said, Egypt - Landing Stage
The landing Stage and the Suez Canal Office at Port Said, Egypt

Georgia - Batumi - The Telegraph Office
The Post Telegraph Office at Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 12 miles from the border with Turkey

Street scene in Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand, showing a tram going past a shop building

The Only Man Left by George Ranstead
Original drawing in pen and ink showing an incredibly young boy suggesting to a (much taller) female office worker that they go to the theatre together but to keep it quiet otherwise the other girls

Modern office building, Berlin, Germany
A modern office building at the Potsdamer Platz metro station in Berlin, Germany

A Laugh between friends - Iran
3 Friends sharing a joke at Bushehr (Bushire), Iran

Start of pennyfarthing ride, Lands End
The start of an NSPCC Centenary pennyfarthing ride from Lands End in Cornwall to John o Groats in Scotland, with two intrepid cyclists and the local mayor

Letterbox at Cranmere Pool, Dartmoor
Two women stand in front of the letterbox at Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, Devon. Cranmere Pool is famous for being the first place on Dartmoor to have a letterbox -- it was established there in 1854

Bavarian State Chancellery, Munich, Germany
View of the Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich, Germany. It contains the office of the Bavarian Prime Minister and the State Government of Bavaria

House of the Free Press, Bucharest, Romania
View of the House of the Free Press (or Press Freedom House) in Bucharest, Romania, the headquarters of various newspapers and media publications. It was built between 1952 and 1956

War Office at Wormwood Scrubs
A War Office filing clerk in his temporary office, a cell at the Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. The prison was requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of war in 1939

The Republic of Ireland proclaimed
Eire becomes a republic on the anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916: the General Post Office in O Connell Street, focal point of the rebellion

The Republic of Ireland proclaimed: saluting the GPO
The troops of the new Eire salute as they pass the General Post Office, where the Easter rebels of 1916 proclaimed the Republic, 33 years earlier

New York Subway
Entrance to the New York subway station at 14th street and 6th avenue, downtown, in America

Offices of La Depeche Algerienne
Where Boulevard Laferriere meets Rue D Isly, with the offices of La Depeche Algerienne newspaper and a fantastically-ornate Post Office building (right), Algiers, Algeria

Funny Postcard - Urgency
A superb humourous postcard depicting a young man taking a long time over his telegram, which has a lot to do with the pretty young girl behind the counter

Barrack Room - Dijon, France
The interior of a Police barrack room, with a group of French soldiers (some seated) in the foreground, all bearing swords, engaged in police duty

Post Office Savings Bank
A coal carter opening an account with Her Majesty at the Post Office Savings Bank. In 1861 the Palmerston government set up the Post Office Savings Bank

The Main Post Office, Istanbul. There are different counters for local/ interior post and for International post. A clock above the counter unusually shows the time in two different time zones

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Fishermans Point Cable Office
The Cable Office on a street in Fishermans Bay - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States assumed territorial control over Guantanamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty

Office scene with large angled mirror
A futuristic office with a large angled mirrored screen running along one wall, with up to the minute computer systems visible in the reflection. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A computer technician with data tape
A computer technician stretches out a piece of data recording tape, from the ICT Atlas I computing system. A colleague speaks on the telephone in the background. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

An advertisement for ICT
A wonderful advertising picture taken for International Computers and Tabulators, showing their office building and lines of light left by the passing traffic. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Angel Inn, St Clements 1849
The historic public house in the parish of St Clement Danes in the Strand, London. The Illustrated London News notes in 1849 that " it presents a specimen of the galleried innyard

Piccadilly Circus, London, on Derby Day
Traffic on the morning of Derby Day in Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, London

Buckingham House, Pall Mall, London
Buckingham House, Pall Mall, office of the Minister at War, busy at this time fighting the war in the Crimea

The Monarch 120 Call Connect System
A secretary or receptionist uses a new electronic post office telecommunications device/switchboard unit. A promotional photograph for the Monarch 120 Call Connect System

Turkish Christmas Card
Christmas card sent by Ferdinando de Paruta who was the Director of the International Couriers and Guides Office of Pera, Constantinople. Card produced by Sebah and Joaillier in Constantinople

Dr. Thomas Barnardo - in his office
Dr. Thomas John Barnardo (1845 - 1905) at his offices - 18-26 Stepney Causeway, London

Sorting Mail
Sorting mail at the post office at the turn of the century

Poster advertising the Williams Typewriter, operated by a geisha in traditional dress

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

MAB Headquarters, Carmelite Street, London
Headquarters of the Metropolitan Asylums Board at the corner of Carmelite Street on the Victoria Embankment, Central London

Local Government Board Offices, Whitehall, London
A view of the Local Government Boards headquarters, at the junction of Great George Street and Parliament Street, Central London

Businessman relaxes in his office
A Businessman (possibly a Company Director) sits back in a modern round wicker chair with hands behind his head and wearing a Warriors helmet

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