Telephone Collection (page 12)

Home Office-NFS Fire Force mobile telecom unit, WW2
NFS firewoman control officer using the London Fire Brigade Portable Telephone Cabinet (Home Office)

NFS London Region control room, HQ, WW2
Firemen and firewomen of the NFS (London Region) at the telephone switchboard of the control room at Lambeth HQ

Hillmans Airways Essex Airport Poster
Poster, Hillmans Airways, Essex Airport, offering flights from London to Paris (no passports required), Belfast, Liverpool and the Isle of Man, with prices and flight durations. 20th century

By Air Anywhere Poster, Croydon 3421, see London by night. Surrey Flying Services Ltd, Croydon & Plymouth. 20th century

Santa Claus on the telephone
Santa takes a call, 1892 Date: 1892

Talking on the telephone, postcard
" I don t know why ou botherd to send me a postcard, a phone call would have been much quicker!" - the declining post card industry pokes fun at itself in 1915. 1915

An example of an early telephone switchboard

The late Dr and Mrs Alexander Graham Bell. Beinn Bhreagh. Nova Scotia, Canada

View of Broadway and Maiden Lane, New York City

The Signal Corps trains men for telegraph, telephone, radio. There is in your locality a US Army recruiting office. US Army Signal Corps recruiting poster showing a map of the world with lines of

Girls on the telephone
Fabulous illustration showing a number of teenage girls, all wearing 1950s style checked capri pants and boat neck sweaters while lounging around chatting on the phone. Date: 1950s

Butchers van, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A butcher poses beside his new delivery van. Tom Greenwood was a family butcher at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, and clearly took pride in his new mode of transport. circa 1920

Art deco sketch by Fish, 1921. The telephone conversation. Date: 1921

Woman on the telephone
A woman in animated conversation on the telephone Date: 1928

Olivet House Hotel, Jerusalem
Postcard advertising the Olivet House Hotel, Jerusalem, a first class English family hotel, established 1880, managed by Mrs Landrey. Date: early 20th century

Metropolitan Police Information Room, London
General view of the Metropolitan Police Information Room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers busy taking calls. In the foreground are the Inspectors and Sergeants positions. Date: May 1974

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

Switchboard operators
Two female operators by a witchboard of Western Electric system, 1927. Date: 1927

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

Railway Crossing Sign
A railway crossing sign for large vehicles, telling them to stop and telephone for permission to cross! Date: 1960s

Flying Dress
A pilot dressed for a high- altitude flight. Equipped with parachute, harness, oxygen apparatus, telephone, wireless earphones, electrical system for heating clothing. Date: 1920s

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

Australian Signals laying telephone cable, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying telephone cable near Eaucourt l Abbaye, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

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

Your silence is hard to bear
A bear listening to the bottom of the candlestick holder of the telephone, while the receiver is on the floor 1928

Communications Palmin 5
A wife uses the telephone to speak from home to her husband in his office

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

Telephone Operators
Men and women working as telephone operators. Trelleborg

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

Red Telephone Boxes
Two of the distinctive British red telephone boxes. Date: 1978

Stressed Secretary
A stressed-out secretary or typist answers an unpleasant telephone call. Date: 1978

Bansall Village Cross
The tall and slender cross, surmounting many steps at Bansall, near Matlock, Derbyshire, England. Date: late 1930s

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

Oberleutnant Steurer, German army Chief of Staff, WW1
Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant) Steurer, Generalstabschef (Chief of Staff) of a division of the German army, seen here at his desk studying papers during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British soldier checking telephone lines, WW1
British soldier checking telephone lines during the First World War, with low poles high enough to form an air line. Date: 23 October 1917

Indonesia - Jakarta - The Telephone Exchange. Jakarta was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa (3971527), Jayakarta (15271619), Batavia (16191942), and Djakarta (19421972)

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

Female Office Worker
An office worker at her messy desk, surrounded by paperwork typewriters and telephones with wires which would make any Health and Safety departments hair stand on end! Date: 1960s

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

French Lady on Line
A French lady on the line Date: circa 1905

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

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