Telephone Collection (page 2)

Converting a London telephone exchange
Front cover photograph of the stupendous task of converting a London telephone exchange to the new Automatic Principle. Date: October 1926

Listening to an early Telephone Receiver
Listening to an early telephone receiver. " A Word to the Wise is Sufficient." Date: circa 1903

Rabbiting on the Phone
A clever rabbit makes a telephone call on his new- fangled phone! Date: early 1930s

Gibson Girl - Kate (on the telephone) Date: circa 1910s

David Wright woman in black negligee on red telephone
Elegant woman with red hair, wearing a black negligee. She is lying on a furry white rug, speaking on her red telephone. David Wright (1912 - 1967)

Metropolitan Police Telephone Box System instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Telephone Box System, published by Peckham Sub-Division

New dial operated telephone system
Series of three photographs showing a new automatic system of telephoning introduced in Britain in 1911. The movement of a dial operated electrical switches and magnets in the telephone exchange

Telegraph Parrot
No one told this poor parrot on a telegraph pole that it would need to buy a telephone before it could chat to its mates

Lines of Communication by David Wright, showing a woman on the telephone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Hands-Free Telephone Set
A telephone receptionist (possibly working for the emergency services) uses a rather cumbersome hands-free telephone, worn around the neck

Mays Stores / Shepherd Mkt
Shepherd Market, Mayfair, previously the site of the May Fair from which the district takes its name. It was laid out in c.1735 by architect Edward Shepherd

Swallow / Cig. Card / 1915
Swallow - latin name: Hirundo rustica

Danish Lady on the Line
A Danish lady in an extremely long dress uses a wall-mounted phone

STRING TELEPHONE 1880
Two boys talk to each other by using cans connected by a piece of string. Date: 1880

Shoot for Kamella children's clothes brand
Client: Stonehouse Advertising - shoot for Kamella children's clothes brand - little girl's padded dressing gown and slippers Date: circa 1967

Comic postcard, Woman on the phone - reducing diet Date: 20th century

Early telephones, Verity Electrical Supplies
Early telephones from Verity Electrical Supplies, Aston, Birmingham. 1903

YWCA Poster, Back our girls over there, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Clarence F Underwood, Back our girls over there, United War Work Campaign, First World War. 1918

Birthday Card design - Glamour, Pin-Up, Woman on Telephone. Date: circa 1950

The Mall, Westport, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom talks on the telephone t?
Astronaut Virgil ?Gus? Grissom talks on the telephone to the US President, John F. Kennedy, from the aircraft carrier USS Randolph, after his sub-orbital flight

Post Office at East Chinnock, Somerset, England
Post Office and T Bowyer General Stores at East Chinnock, Somerset, England Date: 1920s

Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London
Shepherds Market, Mayfair, London. G Ruggeri Restaurant (now Le Dondin Blanc). A Street girl (prostitute) standing on the corner of Trebeck Street and Shepherd Market Date: 1950s

Africa Johannesburg Synagogue and Telephone Exchange pre-1900

Three steam engines clearing a snow drift in Scotland and a man fixing the telephone wires, probably 1930s

Port Sunlight - telephone switchboard - early 1900s

Weymoor Post Office and Hall's Newsagents Shop, Harborne, south-west Birmingham. Note the K3 telephone box/booth/kiosk (right) - the K3, introduced in 1929, again by Giles Gilbert Scott

Woman on the Telephone - Illustration of a woman on the telephone. Date: 1911

A telephone box in Winter in the 1940s

Mercury telephones and card vending machine, London, late 1980s

Mercurycard telephone and vending machine London 1980s

WW2 - A. R. P. Spy
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, A.R.P. Spy, written by Capt. A. O. Pollard, V.C. M.C. D.C.M. The image portrays a young woman, bound on the floor, speaking into a telephone

Wartime Railway Operators
A photograph of some British railway telephone and map operators. Date: circa 1944

High Street, Winchelsea, Sussex - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

WW2, Where And When?
An illustration of a little girl portraying an older woman, speaking on the telephone to a relative who is serving for the Royal Navy during WW2, he has 10 days leave. Date: circa 1940s

Woman Using Telephone
A photograph used for advertisement purposes, portraying a young woman wearing a tilted black hat, using a telephone. Date: circa 1939

General Post Office Advertisement
An interesting advertisement illustration for the General Post Office, showing a repetition of a hand clutching a telephone, at your service!, as it were

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ho Chi Minh's Campaign
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Ho Chi Minh takes every step and every advance alongside his troops, even if he is not physically by their side'. Date: circa mid-1970s

Gas?
An illustration, as part of the back page to Colour Magazine, portraying a woman busy speaking on the telephone, while leaning on a chair, upon which a black cat is laid. Date: circa 1917

Bovril Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Bovril, featuring the image of a young girl on the telephone, with a happy smile on her face, with the phrase, It must be Bovril, Mummy says so. Date: circa 1917

Post Office Radio Telephone Services and Fisheries
A wonderful, original, poster map showing Post Office Radio Telephone Services commissioned by the General Post Office and designed by Leslie MacDonald Gill, 1935

Arima Road, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Sannomiya Dori, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Main Street, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Onoyecho-dori, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Yoshidamachi, Yokohama. Date: circa 1910s

Snow scene - Yokohama Custom House, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Kaminarimon ('Thunder Gate') - Asakusa, Tokyo
The Kaminarimon ('Thunder Gate') - the outer of two large entrance gates that ultimately leads to the Senso-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping