Phone Collection (page 7)

Woman on telephone reporting something suspicious
A woman seen through the front window of her house, speaking on the telephone to report something suspicious, possibly an attempted burglary

Advertisement for Home & Colonial Stores Ltd, 268-270 Edgware Road, London W2, offering Xmas Fare. An apprehensive-looking turkey stands in a snowy village landscape

Metropolitan Police communications room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police communications room, showing three officers sitting at desks on the right. There are several push button telephones

Metropolitan Police telephone operator
A Metropolitan Police telephone operator at the controls, which link him with Police Boxes in the London area. He is wearing a combination microphone and headphones. Date: circa 1930s

Allied soldier on field telephone, WW1
An Allied soldier speaking on a field telephone while sitting at a small table in the open air during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American soldiers on manoeuvres in France, WW1
American soldiers on manoeuvres in France during the First World War. Some of them are using communications equipment. Date: early 1918

Policeman on the Phone
A young policeman makes a telephone call. Date: 1960s

OH REALLY?
Blonde woman on the telephone. Date: 1960s

Woman wearing telephonic fancy dress
A woman wearing telephonic fancy dress. The telephone is balanced on her head, and her closely-fitting dress is made up of draped telephone cables. Date: circa 1895

B. T. Phone Bill
A B.T. (British Telecom) phone bill. Date: 1980s

Lovers chat using a string telephone
A courting couple chat over the telephone, while cupid listens in. The dapper gentleman attributes his robust health to the taking of Enos fruit salt

Three American soldiers near St Mihiel, France, WW1
Three American soldiers using an abandoned German field telephone near St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1918

David Wright woman with red telephone
Elegant woman in a low-cut yellow dress, speaking on a red telephone. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Copenhagen Phone Exchang
Telefonselskabets Centralbureau - the central telephone exchange, Copenhagen - note the operator with the long plaits ! Date: 1888

French Lady on Phone
Allo ! Allo ! A French lady sends kisses over the phone to a friend. Date: 1910

Editor Using Phone
A Belgian editor takes down a story dictated to him by a reporter over the telephone Date: 1905

NY Phone Exchange 1910
Section of a typical New York City telephone exchange : working here is evidently an exclusively female preserve Date: 1910

Lady on the Phone
Lady Listening on Phone Date: 1925

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1939
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman engrossed in a telephone conversation, wearing a dark-blue puffed-shoulder dress

David Wright woman in black evening dress and white fur
Elegant woman with blonde hair, wearing a slinky black evening dress and a white fur stole. She is speaking on her red telephone, no doubt making arrangements to go out

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

Nurse and matron at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a matron sitting at her desk while a nurse stands respectfully behind her

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

Two Men at Work
Two men working at a telephone switchboard desk in a factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Right Number by Pierrot
Illustration of an elegant flapper girl, dressed seemingly only in lingerie speaking on the telephone

Universal Exhibition, Paris
Members of the public testing out telephones and phonographs at the L Exposition Universelle in Paris

A Live Wire - Mutoscope postcard featuring an evocatively posed young woman on the telephone to her beau. She lies on some colourful plump cushions and the telephone sits atop a fine period table

Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder
A photograph of Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder, able to automatically transmit and print messages through a phone line, while callers were still conversing

Phone Message
A secretary writes down a phone message

Man on Phone C1905
A man telephones his beloved and imagines her in the room with him, answering his call

Man at Desk on Phone
A man in a suit sits at his desk and talks on the telephone as he points to some photographs in the Ad Lib Catalogue

Hand Holds a Telephone
A hand with manicured finger nails hold up a white telephone handset

Lovers Linked by Phone
Arrivederci presto ! (See you soon !) Lovers linked by phone

Hand Held Model
I wish you were at this end of the phone !

Female Type / Phone
Five foot two, Eyes of blue, Has anybody seen my girl ? An attractive young woman of the 1920s on the telephone

Cover of Britannia and Eve, February 1936
Front cover illustration for Britannia & Eve magazine showing a fashionable young woman smoking while talking on the telephone. Issue dated 1st February 1936

Man Using Early Phone
A gentleman using an early instrument

Ericsson Table Phone - 1
A table instrument by the Ericsson Company, Sweden. Two generator magnets support the instrument and the induction coil is contained in the pedestal. Note the handle

Santa Phones
Santa Claus receives a phone call from a young admirer

Paris Phone Exchange
Paris Telephone Exchange : les demoiselles du telephone

Lovers Plan on Phone
Two lovers make plans on the phone

Children & Simple Phone
Two children use a toy telephone : in the margin, batteries and headphones for an electrical appliance

Marconi on Phone
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian inventor, in the cabin of the Electra, establishing the radio link to Australia, 1930

Bathing / Nothing on C1910
Lady gets out of the bath to answer the phone: " If you ve got nothing on, I should like to see you!"

Advert. Bells Phone
Baxendales specialitites: Blacks patent Bell signalling speaking tube apparatus

Phone Box in Shop
Before the introduction of telephone kiosks, instruments were frequently made access- -ible to the public in shops such as this pharmacy where an assistant assist a customer

Yvonne LA Bois
Yvonne La Bois, American starlet, reclining languidly on her bed as she makes a phone call, surrounded by photographs of her men friends

Lady on Phone 1919
Lady uses a candlestick telephone to receive congratulations on her husbands knighthood which she thinks will raise their status with the servants

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