Telegram Collection (page 2)

Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes
THE INFANT HERCULES Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), strangling the twin snakes of Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph with his new Wireless telegraph system

Manufacture of the Atlantic cable
The manufacture of the Atlantic submarine cable at Glass, Elliott and Co.s Works, East Greenwich, London Date: 1857

Fruit Label -- Pedro Monsonis oranges
Fruit Label -- Pedro Monsonis selected oranges, imported from Valencia, Spain, depicting two Greedy Mice pulling a giant orange apart. Date: 20th century

Egyptian Fantasy card - State Telegram and Al-Azhar Mosque
Egyptian Fantasy card - featuring an Egyptian State Telegram and an inset photograph of the Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (founded in 975) all on a faux papyrus background

Turkish Fantasy Postcard - Imperial Ottoman Telegraph - beautiful collage card. Date: 1905

Messenger Boy
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

A strange visitor brings a war telegram to the Czar. Print shows a cossack wearing a conch shell as a disguise bringing a telegram to Tsar Nicholas II. Date 1904 or 1905

The crying sounds of a telegram

Cuba - Havana - Carlos III Street Date: circa 1901

NIPRCC Brochure
Part of a promotional brochure produced by the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control, an organisation privately run by the Rev Harold Burden to house feeble minded children

Fantasy card - Istanbul - Telegram form
Fantasy postcard in the form of a telegram form, featuring a street scene in Constantinople (Kara Koy). The Imperial Ottoman Post and Telegraph Service

Hermann Vezin on his 82nd birthday
Hermann Vezin (1829-1910), American actor, drama teacher and writer, reading a congratulatory telegram on his 82nd birthday

Miss Hensley of Bath on her 103rd birthday
Miss Hensley of Bath, photographed on her 103rd birthday, having received a telegram of congratulations from the King

Selection of Titanic paperwork
A selection of paperwork from the ill-fated SS Titanic: 1. Account of Wages for James Witter, Steward. 2. A letter written on board the RMS Laconia from a survivor, Mary Hewlett, dated 30 May 1912

Stead telegram and brass nameplate
1. One of eight telegrams sent to Miss EK Harper relating to the Titanic disaster and the loss of WT Stead. 2. A cast brass nameplate from Titanic lifeboat no. 12

A Study in Creation
The editor and staff of a daily newspaper use a range of devices to search a censored telegram for news during World War One, a satirical comment on censorship during the period

The Telegram by John Hassall
A clown is temporarily distracted from his performance by the inconvenient arrival of a telegram boy in the big top

Telegram of 1894
A Post Office telegram announcing All well

Bismarck / Rohling / Page 26
Bismarck reads the French reply to the Ems telegram to Wilhelm I at Berlins Potsdams station, giving them the excuse to go to war

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