Phone Collection (page 4)

The Right Way to Speak to Maids - TMC house telephones
Advertisement for TMC House Telephones, particularly useful when your house is so vast you need to dole out instructions to the servants from another wing. Date: 1923

I ve only got to put my hat on! by Bevan Petman. circa 1920s

Somebody on the wire - A Romantic Telephone conversation
New York, USA - Somebody on the wire - A couple share a romantic Telephone conversation - The Line is engaged ! Date: 1907

Poster, Man with telephone and aeroplanes
Poster, Man on the telephone, apparently booking to fly on an aeroplane, published in Rotterdam, Netherlands. 20th century

Poster, The Speaking Clock
Poster, The Correct Time by the Speaking Clock. 20th century

Poster, Come on the Telephone, designed by E McKnight Kauffer. 1934

Poster, The Way to the Complete Home, advertising the need for a telephone. (2 of 2) 20th century

A pair of old phone boxes in Eccles Date: circa 1977

Poster, Use the Transatlantic Telephone, Europe Welcomes You, designed by Eric C Owen. 1937

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Scene at Gatwick Airport, Sussex, January 1970, with passengers and staff at the General Enquiries desk. Date: 1970

People at work, The London Gazette
People at work in the offices of The London Gazette, near Fleet Street, London. The publication has been described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper

Underwater house telephone equipment, Malta
Telephone equipment connected with an underwater, inflatable house, being used on a beach in Malta. The house was anchored to the seabed, some 50 feet deep, in Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta

Find the Fault card No. 5 -- telephone kiosk. circa 1930s

Man photographing a painting

Automatic central battery telephone. Model 27. Siemens. 1927. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Telephone service in Madrid. Central office. Colored engraving, 1886

Experiments on the phone from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), to transmit the human voice over long distances. Boston, 1877. United States. 19th-century colored engraving

Telephone central office. Switching room and telephonists. Milan. Italy. Engraving. Coloured

World War I. Telephone in a trench
FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918). Telephone set in a trench. (France, 1915)

Little girl on the telephone on a Valentine card -- Hello! Yes I ll be your Valentine. Date: early 20th century

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mrs Pill. circa 1935

Two women police officers working at Kingston police station. One of them is looking after a little girl, while the other is on the telephone. Date: circa early 1970s

Woman police officer on telephone in a London street
Woman police officer on the telephone of a police public call post in a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Two women police officers on duty in London
Two women police officers on duty in a London street, one of them on a police telephone reading from a notebook, the other one (Annette Payne) in the background with a member of the public

Businessman and Phone
Businessman and phone - the Honourables Coleridge Date: 1910

Phone Exchange / Montreal
The Bell Telephone Exchange in Montreal, Canada Date: 1900

Phone Exchange / Berlin
An unknown German exchange in Berlin Date: circa 1900

Books / Tiger Tim / Phone
Tiger Tim on the telephone. Date: 1925

Advert / Biscuits
Storekeeper holds a tin of Macfarlane Lang and Co biscuits while he is on the phone Date: 1902

Business card, J Lyons & Co Ltd, Mr O Engelsen
Business card, J Lyons & Co Ltd, Private Catering Department, Mr O Engelsen, Trocadero, London W1, telephone Gerrard 1301. Date: early 20th century

Reception, Hotel Cuhfus, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Date: circa 1940s

Advertisement for wool - couple on telephone
Advertisement for wool - a young couple on the telephone - Young Hearted Bright Hearted Wool. 1950s

Fashion photo, couple in knitted clothing
Fashion photo, young couple in knitted clothing. 1974

RAF recruitment poster, Battle of Britain Show
Recruitment poster, Learn about life in the RAF at the Battle of Britain Show. Date: circa 1950s

Studio portrait, little boy on the phone
Studio portrait of a little boy on the phone. Date: circa 1960s

WW2 Christmas card, air raid
WW2 Christmas card, keeping calm in an air raid. Date: circa 1942

Telephone Cable Repair
The intricate work of repairing and connecting telephone land lines. London, 1998 Date: 1998

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Fire safety in the theatre -- a notice in a backstage area: Release for stage lantern, in case of fire pull down lever

Fire safety at bedtime -- a staged photograph for a Safe at Night fire prevention scheme, 28 February 1969. This family have been woken by a smell of smoke

Blitz in London scene in a fire station control room, WW2
Blitz in London -- scene at night in a fire station control room, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940

Street telephone fire alarm with group of children
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with a group of children looking up at it

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box, London
Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box near the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank, used for a fire service exhibition. Date: 1957

Emergency call button in telephone box
The emergency call button in a public telephone box -- just press the button and ask for Fire, Ambulance or Police. No number or coins required

Firefighter using telephone point in street
Firefighter using a telephone point (marked Ambulance Call) in the street

Two men on switchboard at LFB HQ
Two men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925

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