Telephone Collection (page 9)

Phone Exchange / Montreal
The Bell Telephone Exchange in Montreal, Canada Date: 1900

Phone Exchange / Berlin
An unknown German exchange in Berlin Date: circa 1900

Street Telephone
A street telephone at Mantes, France Date: 1929

Four Poster Bed 1930S
The sumptuous principal bedroom of the Mayfair home of City financier Clarence Hatry, with its wooden panelled walls and four-poster bed. Hatry was jailed for fraud. Date: 1930s

Books / Tiger Tim / Phone
Tiger Tim on the telephone. Date: 1925

Videophone or skyping imagined, 1927
Thanks to the videophone, papa(working in a distant country)can not only speak to his loved ones, he can see them also. Date: 1927

Advert / Biscuits
Storekeeper holds a tin of Macfarlane Lang and Co biscuits while he is on the phone Date: 1902

The Kings Christmas Speech, 1933
A page from The Sphere December 1933, entitled, The Kings Christmas Speech - how it will be broadcast to the world". Pictured are engineers

Players cigarette advert featuring female office worker
Advertisement for Players cigarettes featuring a woman sitting at an office desk enjoying a smoke. Date: 1938

Business card, J Lyons & Co Ltd, Mr O Engelsen
Business card, J Lyons & Co Ltd, Private Catering Department, Mr O Engelsen, Trocadero, London W1, telephone Gerrard 1301. Date: early 20th century

Stationery design, Eden Hotel Restaurant Lunes, Florence, Italy. 1923

Reception, Hotel Cuhfus, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Date: circa 1940s

Advertisement for wool - couple on telephone
Advertisement for wool - a young couple on the telephone - Young Hearted Bright Hearted Wool. 1950s

Fashion photo, couple in knitted clothing
Fashion photo, young couple in knitted clothing. 1974

Players cigarettes advertisement by H. M. Bateman
Misunderstood - Marker: " Send up some more PLAYERS please!" Advertisement for Players Navy Cut cigarettes by the great C20th cartoonist H.M

The Kiss Call by Fred Thomson
Promotional postcard for The Kiss Call by Fred Thomson from Le Coup de Telephone, a farce, by Paul Gavault and Georges Beer; music Ivan Caryll. First produced at the Gaiety Theatre, 8th October 1919

RAF recruitment poster, Battle of Britain Show
Recruitment poster, Learn about life in the RAF at the Battle of Britain Show. Date: circa 1950s

Kite Balloon Observers under fire
Victors by telephone: Our kite-balloon observers under fire. Two kite balloon observers on the Western Front relay information by telephone to the British batteries below about the position of enemy

WW1 - Cartoon - General Joffre and Grand Duke Nicholas
WW1 - French General Joseph Jacques C鳡 ire Joffre (1852 - 1931), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856 - 1929), as " men of few words"

Studio portrait, little boy on the phone
Studio portrait of a little boy on the phone. Date: circa 1960s

WW1 - British Horse unmasks a German spy hidden in haystack
WW1 - Behind British lines in a farmstead, a horse from a British cavalry patrol snatched a mouthful of hay from a stack, revealing a German officer

WW2 Christmas card, air raid
WW2 Christmas card, keeping calm in an air raid. Date: circa 1942

Devonshire Arms, Baslow, Peak District
The landlords name is identifiable as Griffiths, and carved onto the outside stonework is the telephone number - 9. A sign also advertises coach trips to local sights. Date: circa 1906

Telephone Cable Repair
The intricate work of repairing and connecting telephone land lines. London, 1998 Date: 1998

Hobart and Telephone buildings, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hobart and Telephone buildings, San Francisco, California, USA, completed in 1914 and 1925 respectively, after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Date: circa 1930

YMCA, Telephone Building, Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA
YMCA, Telephone Building, and Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1916

Chinese telephone office, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese workers at a switchboard in the telephone office, San Francisco, California, USA. The building was destroyed in the earthquake and fire of April 1906. Date: early 20th century

Suffragette Kitchener Mrs. Pankhurst. Lord Kitchener is informed by an officer that the Germans will disembark in Dover. He replies, Telephone Mrs

French military transmitting messages
Relays of French military soldiers continuously day and night operating the telephone exchange somewhere in the Somme district. Date: 1916

Indian troops in Mesopotamia during World War I
Indian sappers laying telephone cables in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Date: 1918

Receiving late news on the tape telegraph at Daily Chronicle
A late news item received on the tape telegraph and telephoned at once down to the machine room at The Daily Chronicle to guarantee inclusion in that days edition. Date: 1914

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Fire safety in the theatre -- a notice in a backstage area: Release for stage lantern, in case of fire pull down lever

Fire safety at bedtime -- a staged photograph for a Safe at Night fire prevention scheme, 28 February 1969. This family have been woken by a smell of smoke

Blitz in London scene in a fire station control room, WW2
Blitz in London -- scene at night in a fire station control room, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940

Street telephone fire alarm with group of children
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with a group of children looking up at it

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box, London
Woman dialling 999 in a public telephone box near the Royal Festival Hall on Londons South Bank, used for a fire service exhibition. Date: 1957

Emergency call button in telephone box
The emergency call button in a public telephone box -- just press the button and ask for Fire, Ambulance or Police. No number or coins required

Firefighter using telephone point in street
Firefighter using a telephone point (marked Ambulance Call) in the street

Two men on switchboard at LFB HQ
Two men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925

LFB Telephone Switchboard - Lambeth HQ, SE1 Date: circa 1930s

Woman operating field telephone van, WW2
Woman operating a field telephone van during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Two women in control room, WW2
Two women taking messages in a fire station control room during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

LCC-London Fire Brigade training in use of telephone
LCC-London Fire Brigade training recruits in taking messages over the telephone, at Lambeth HQ

Man taking a call in a fire station control room, May 1939. Date: 1939

Belgian boy scout in phone box
A Belgian boy scout (or cub) in a phone box

Telephone duty at White Horse Hotel. Through the long night watches. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

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