Postal Collection (page 10)

Official postcard of the Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg - reverse of one of the cards Date: 1936

Turkey - Venerable Turks surrounded by postage stamps
Turkey - Venerable Turks (Anatolian Farm workers - now retired!) surrounded by Turkish postage stamps Date: circa 1903

European Gentleman delivering a letter to a Soon-Tah-Burdar or Silver Baton-Bearer. (Plate 6 of 20) Date: 1813

The Wreck of the Titanic - Honour to the Brave
Page from the Sphere honouring the brave men who were part of the Titanics crew who were lost with the ship when it sank, including all the engineers (36), the band (8), the postal clerks (5)

Postman with post from Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Postman with Post from Tunbridge Wells. His mail sack folds out to reveal small photographic views of this charming town in Kent. Date: 1913

Stamps of Romania
Stamps and the Crest of Romania of 1906 and a small map showing the location of the country on the Black Sea, bordering Russia, Austria-Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria (at the time). Date: 1906

Post sorting office
Postman sorting the post in the post office, Landskrona 1940. Date: 1940

New Post Office, Flint, Michigan, USA Date: circa 1910s

Romania - Bucharest - Postal Palace (Central Post Office?) Date: circa 1902

King George Post Box
A King George (V or VI?) country letter box. Date: 1950s

Victorian Pillar Box
An old Victorial postal pillar box at Mudsford, near Christchurch, England. It has a vertical slit for posting letters into it. Date: 1855

Red Post Boxes
Two typical British red post boxes. Date: 1979

Serbia - Card issued by the National Post Office, showing a postman and the varied means of conveying ones letter around the globe - by train, by plane or by sea. Date: 1936

Woman and dog in photographers studio
A woman and her dog posing in the photographers studio. The dog is holding some parcels in its mouth. Date: early 20th century

George Lester - Mail Carrier at Cortland Post Office
George Lester - Mail Carrier No.1 at The Cortland Post Office, NY, USA. Date: circa 1915

Kenya, Africa - General Post Office Nairobi Date: circa 1910s

The Old Post Office - Tintagel, Cornwall Date: early 1940s

Children posting their Christmas cards
Posting letters at Xmas - illustration by Charles Robinson. circa 1910

Inauguration of Postal Union Statue
A postcard from 1909 to commemorate the inauguration the monument " Around the World", by French sculptor RenÚáñe Saint-Marceaux, on October 4, 1909, in the Kleine Schanze park

Two Post Office workers waiting for the mail train at a lineside mailbag collection and drop-off point. In the background are railway lines, signals, and a goods train

Argentina - Buenos Aires - The Postal Palace
Argentina - Buenos Aires - The Palacio Correos (Postal Palace). Photo (28/40) from a fold-out set

Postal Service Jubilee card - Prague, Czechoslovakia
A card celebrating the 40th anniversary (1887 - 1927) of the start of the Prague postal and telegraph service, by land and now by air too!

Mountain Postal Service, Switzerland
The Mountain Postal Service in Switzerland. The post is transported in a variety of panniers and boxes on the backs/flanks of mules

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

Gustav Hamel leaving Hendon for Windsor
The aviator Gustav Hamel leaving Hendon Aerodrome for Windsor on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor and back again

Turkish Postman
A Turkish postman with satchel and long stick checks a signpost to make sure he is delivering to the correct address!

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

The Postal Team at a regional depot
Royal Mail employees, from the directors to postmen, pose for a group photograph at a regional post depot, alongside a post box and a fleet of postal vans. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Sir Rowland Hill - Postal Reformer
Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879) - English postal reformer - introduced the penny post

Italian Airmail Warehouse
View of an Italian Airmail Warehouse (Aero Espresso Italiana) with a British seaplane. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

India - Pigeon Post envelope
A Pigeon Post envelope used to send a message to Vice Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert CB C.M.G from Kalyan to Bombay (a distance of thirty miles)

St Johns Square - Malta, showing Arab influence on the architecture, a small florists booth/kiosk and a traditional British letterbox, bearing the insignia of Queen Victoria

Selection of French Stamps

Womens Volunteer Reserve 1916
Womens Volunteer Reserve driving the Royal Mail during World War I. Here being given engine instruction in November 1916

Charleville, Queensland, 1908
Country Mail Stagecoach leaving the Charleville Post Office in Queensland, Australia

Sorting mail on a train
Illustration by Ernest Prater showing male postal workers aboard a London and North-Western train sorting mail

The Crew of the Pandora Recovering Mail from the Cairn on
Engraving showing the crew of the ship Pandora recovering mail, left by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875, from the cairn on top of Carey Island

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

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

The Post in the Snow
Three engravings to illustrate the changing modes of postal delivery through the nineteenth century. The top illustration shows a post boy with his horse, lost in the snow

Girl at Vending Machine
A vending machine in an Exeter Post Office selling postal orders amongst other things

C17 Dutch Courier
Dutch Postal courier

Swiss Courier, C15
A Swiss courier

Bruce Castle, 1787
Bruce Castle in Middlesex, the seat of James Townsend. Later it will become a museum, and our Library will act as agent for its collection, notably of postal items

Mr Wolf in a Hurry
Mr Wolf, a postal courier in a hurry, can t stop to pick up the tortoises letter

Us Postal Dog Sleigh
Three dogs haul a sleigh of the United States postal service

AIR MAIL
Postal services will be revolutionised - flying postmen will collect the mail even from country villages without even needing to make a landing !

Telephone Kiosk in Snow
A night study after a fall of snow, showing a telephone kiosk and a (postal) pillar box, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England

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