Post Collection (page 49)

Sydney Charles Buxton / Vf
SYDNEY CHARLES BUXTON The Post-Master General enjoying a spot of fly fishing

Social / Romania Postman
A Romanian postman delivers the post on his bicycle

The Betting Post
A crowd of punters at the betting post

Swimwear / Women / 1918
Pre-war & post-war fashions creating a skirmish on the sea front

Traffic Control Centre
Traffic Control Post

Man-Made Satellite
Space Satellite Serving as a Staging Post for Interplanetary Travel

Taking on Mail / Port Said
Taking on the mail, Port Said, Egypt

German Pigeon Post 1915
Carrier pigeons used by the German army during the First World War

RATION BOOK 1953 - 1954
A Ministry of Food Ration Book, proving that rationing lasted in Britain for several years after World War Two ended in 1945

Airmail Project 1930
An American airmail project

French Dolls C1805
Two French dolls of the post- revolutionary period (Empire)

St Pauls Precincts
The Precincts development around St. Pauls Cathedral, including Paternoster Square. Later deemed to be yet another ugly example of post World War Two architectural modernism

London / Cries / Bellman
The bellman, or postman, rings his bell to let you know that the letters are about to go

Parisian Group Smoking
Smoking in mixed company, Paris

Washington / Polish Stamp
Polish stamps issued to commemorate the bicentenary of the Polish patriots Kosciusko and Pulaski, who fought with George Washington in the American War of Independence

Girl Posts Parcel 1880S
A little girl in a huge fruit festooned bonnet, arms full with a doll, umbrella & muff, looks up at the high slot on the red pillar box & wonders how she will ever reach it

Post War Southampton
Above Bar Street, the busy new street in re-built (post World War Two) Southampton, Hampshire, England

Australian Mail-Cart
A postman in his mail-cart in the Australian outback

Postman Early C19
The postman rings his bell - those with a letter to send rush out into the street and pop it into the slit in his bag

The Caledonian Train
The Caledonian steam express locomotive which ran from Glasgow to London, photographed here at Euston station. It set up post war record of 6 hours, June 1957

Factory at Surat
The English factory at Surat is the first European trading post in India, and marks the first fateful step towards the British domination of the peninsula

Johannesburg Post Office
The General Post Office

Alsace Returns to France
After German defeat in the First World War, Strasbourg and Alsace return to become part of France once more

Arrival of War Post
The arrival of the post orderly on horseback, the soldier in charge of the management of the post, to deliver letters and parcels to the men at the front

Swedish Postman C1900
The Swedish postman makes use of a steam ferry to get from one part of Stockholm to another

Korean Postman
A Korean postman kneels on the ground as he takes his mail from the basket on his back and hands it to a high official

Italian Postman
Am Italian postman delivers letters to a monastery

Egyptian Postman
The Egyptian postman rides a camel on his delivery round

THREE NEW WOMEN
Three emancipated women of post-WW1 Germany

Costume / Woman, 1790
Frenchwoman in post- revolutionary costume with fan and extragavant headwear

French Incubators-
Dr Tarniers Couveuse pour Enfants (= incubators) in use at La Maternite Hospital, Port Royal, Paris; introduced in 1881, gas heating maintains temperature at 32o Celsius

Postman Rings his Bell
The bellman, or postman, rings his bell to let you know that the letters are about to go

Post Parrish 7
At Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ethel Post Parrish materialises the spirit of Silver Belle picture 7 of 7

Post Parrish 3
At Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Ethel Post Parrish materialises the spirit of Silver Belle picture 3 of 7

Posting a Letter
An American boy goes out with his dog in the snow to the pillar-box to post his final instructions to Santa Claus

Students Dissecting 1880
Young female students at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris dissect a body as part of their practical work

Communications / Courier
An Ethiopian courier carries a message from the Negus : peasants along the route bow their heads in respect

Animals and plants of the post-Jurassic era
Scene and landscape, with animals, during the Cretaceous (post-Jurassic) era in southern England

Futuristic airborne postman
A futuristic airborne postman hands the mail to a man leaning over a balcony

Hudson Trading Post
A trading post of the Hudsons Bay Company, Canada

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