Communication Collection

Flags used for Nelsons famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. The flags used by Lieutenant Pasco aboard HMS Victory to send the message England expects that every man will do his duty

The Bellman of London, 1616. London night-watchman going on his rounds with bell, lantern and pike, with his dog at his heels

Introducing Georges Carpentier, 1921. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
Introducing Georges Carpentier, 1921

Madonna and Child between St Francis and St John the Evangelist, c1320s. Artist: Pietro Lorenzetti
Madonna and Child between St Francis and St John the Evangelist, c1320s. St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) is bearing the stigmata on his left hand, while St John carries a book

Hall Braille Stereotyping Machine, 1919. From The British Printer Vol. XXXII. [Raithby, Lawrence & Co. Ltd, London and Leicester, 1919]

The Charing-Cross Railway: the signal station on the north end of the bridge, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Charing-Cross Railway: the signal station on the north end of the bridge, [London], 1864. 'The signal station...is remarkable for the ingenious character of its arrangements

Reception-room of the Social Science Congress in the Guildhall, New York, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Reception-room of the Social Science Congress in the Guildhall, New York, 1864. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

The War in Schleswig: Prussian field mail on its way from Rendsburg to the front, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The War in Schleswig: Prussian field mail on its way from Rendsburg to the front, 1864. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's new iron mail steam-ship Quito, 1864. 'This beautiful vessel, which left the Mersey on the 27th January with mails and passengers for St

The new screw steam-ship Cuba, of the Cunard Liverpool and New York Line, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The new screw steam-ship Cuba, of the Cunard Liverpool and New York Line, 1864. Engraving from a drawing by Mr. Hugh Aird

Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Two soldiers, amputee veterans of World War I, leaning to use a telegraph at a vocational school for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital

The Jackal tender and boats going to meet the American mail steamer at Roche's Point..., 1864. Creator: Smyth
The Jackal tender and boats going to meet the American mail steamer at Roche's Point, near Queenstown [in Ireland], 1864

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new paddle-wheel steamer Nyanza, 1864. Creator: Smyth
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new paddle-wheel steamer Nyanza, 1864. A ship built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company from designs by Mr. G. C

French field wireless, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
French field wireless, between c1915 and 1918. Wireless equipment in a truck in France during World War I.

Los Angeles [woman] mail carrier, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Los Angeles [woman] mail carrier, between c1915 and c1920. A woman postal worker during World War I in Los Angeles, California.

Soldier records, Camp Upton, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Soldier records, Camp Upton, 1917 or 1918. Soldiers sorting and organizing personnel records at Camp Upton, Yaphank, Long Island, New York State.

Aviators practicing telegraphy, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Aviators practicing telegraphy, 1917.

Junior Naval Scout on U.S.S. Recruit, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Junior Naval Scout on U.S.S. Recruit, 1917. A Junior Naval recruit semaphore flag signalling on the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square

Wig-Wag, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Wig-Wag, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps using signal flags during training at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York during World War I.

Laboratory, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Laboratory, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps training in a laboratory at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, during World War I.

Wireless, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Wireless, Pratt Institute, Oct 1917. Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in telegraph training at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York during World War I.

University of Washington, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
University of Washington, 1917. A trooper from the University of Washington militia using a portable field-telephone in a suitcase.

German field telephone, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
German field telephone, 1914. German soldier talking on telephone which is attached to a tree, next to a brick building, during World War I.

Telegraph messenger, Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Telegraph messenger, Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. A woman telegraph messenger on a bicycle in Berlin, Germany during World War I.

British and French prisoners assorting mail, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
British and French prisoners assorting mail, between 1914 and c1915. British and French soldiers who are prisoners of war, sorting mail during World War I.

Censoring prisoners' mail, Doeberitz, 23 Sept 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Censoring prisoners' mail, Doeberitz, 23 Sept 1915 (date created or published later). Soldiers checking the mail of prisoners at a prisoner of war camp at Do¨beritz (now Dallgow-Do¨beritz)

A Postcard to Zh.Baiskich, 1918. Creator: Unknown
A Postcard to Zh.Baiskich, 1918. To recruit volunteers to work in Siberia, a "Kuzbass Bureau" was opened in the middle of New York City

Baikal. A terrible ford on the Onote River, 180 versts from the village of Golumet, 1902. Creator: Unknown
Baikal. A terrible ford on the Onote River, 180 versts from the village of Golumet, 1902. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk View from the embankment to the Cathedral, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk View from the embankment to the Cathedral, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

Vladivostok. Sloping street. Types of Japanese, 1904-1917. Creator: Unknown
Vladivostok. Sloping street. Types of Japanese, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk The railway track in Glazkovsky suburb, 1904-1917. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk The railway track in Glazkovsky suburb, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Eastern Siberia Irkutsk Church, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Eastern Siberia Irkutsk Church, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Pontoon bridge over the Angara River, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Pontoon bridge over the Angara River, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Crossing the Angara River on a boat, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Crossing the Angara River on a boat, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Railway bridge over the Irkut River, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Railway bridge over the Irkut River, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

Khabarovsk. View of the Boulevard and Amur, 1904-1917. Creator: Unknown
Khabarovsk. View of the Boulevard and Amur, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Khabarovsk. View of the city from Srednaya Gora, 1904. Creator: Unknown
Khabarovsk. View of the city from Srednaya Gora, 1904. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Ivanovskaya street, Vtorov passage, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Ivanovskaya Street, Vtorov Passage, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

Krasnoyarsk The bank of the Yenisei near Skete, 1903. Creator: Unknown
Krasnoyarsk The bank of the Yenisei near Skete, 1903. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk A pontoon across the Angara River, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk A pontoon across the Angara River, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Pontoon bridge over the Angara River, 1902. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Pontoon bridge over the Angara River, 1902. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Orphanage house Elisaveta Medvednikova, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Orphanage house Elisaveta Medvednikova, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Bridge over the Ushakovka River, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Bridge over the Ushakovka River, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Teachers' Seminary, 1904-1914. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Teachers' Seminary, 1904-1914. National Library of Russia

Greetings from the banks of the Lena River. Yakutsk Towers from the time of the..., 1904-1917. Creator: Unknown
Greetings from the banks of the Lena River. Yakutsk Towers from the time of the conquest of the city, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Irkutsk Girls' Institute of Eastern Siberia, 1903. Creator: Unknown
Irkutsk Girls' Institute of Eastern Siberia, 1903. National Library of Russia

Vladivostok. Corner of Svetlanskaya street, 1904. Creator: Unknown
Vladivostok. Corner of Svetlanskaya street, 1904. National Library of Russia

View of the city of Irkutsk from the Irkutsk Bridge. Glazkovskoe suburb, 1900-1904. Creator: Unknown
Eastern Siberia. View of the city of Irkutsk from the Irkutsk Bridge. Glazkovskoe suburb, 1900-1904. National Library of Russia

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