Communications 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 Palace of Versailles, Paris, France, early 20th century

Bodinnick. Fowey, c1930. From Six Latest Views of Fowey. [Harvey Barton, Aberdeen and Bristol, c1930]

Twixt Love and Duty, 1914. World War I postcard, showing a British officer saying farewell to a loved one and answering the call to duty

The Bridge of Sighs, Hertford College, Oxford University, Oxford, early 20th century

Miss Lily Elsie, (1886-1962), The Merry Widow. c1930. Creator: Unknown
Miss Lily Elsie, (1886-1962), The Merry Widow". c1930. English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. [Foulsham & Banfield, London]

The New Magic: Sending Pictures by Wireless and the Unescapable Telephone, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

French Foreign Legion, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria, 1910. French postcard

The Rhodes Colossus, 1892 Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
The Rhodes Colossus, 1892. Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), English-born South African businessman and statesman, shown striding across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo with a telegraph wire

The Brighton Mail on Christmas Day, 1836 (1905). Artist: Henry Thomas Alken
The Brighton Mail on Christmas Day, 1836 (1905). From The Connoisseur (January 1905)

The Santos Dumont Air-ship rounding the Eiffel Tower, on October 19th 1901, (c1910). Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) in his airship (dirigible)

Wireless officer sending a message by Morse Code from on board a ship, 1916
Wireless officer sending a message by morse code from on board a ship, 1916. Wireless telegraphy at sea was made possible by the type of sending

An Essex Village: Ongar High Street, 1943. Creator: E. Eason
An Essex Village: Ongar High Street, 1943. From " Womens Institutes, by Cicely McCall. [Collins, London, 1943]

The Parade, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, early 20th century. Artist: Photochrom Co Ltd of London
The Parade, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, early 20th century

The National Gallery and St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, c1910. The National Gallery, established in 1824, houses an internationally important art collection

Train driver on an intercom, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist: Michael Walters
Train driver on an intercom, South Yorkshire, 1964. A loco driver from the Park Gate Iron and Steel Company in Rotherham on an intercom in the cab of his diesel loco

Chiswick Empire, Chiswick, London, early 20th century. Artist: W F Seymour
Chiswick Empire, Chiswick, London, early 20th century

The port from Mont Boron, Nice, France, early 20th century. Postcard showing the famous resort on the Riviera

Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable, 1865

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865, 1865

Sender of the S. O. S. Signal for Help, (April 20), 1912. Creator: Unknown
Sender of the " S. O. S." Signal for Help, (April 20), 1912. John George Phillips (nicknamed Jack, 1887-1912) was the ships senior wireless operator who tried to save the Titanic

The Penny Red postage stamp, 1841. Artist: Perkins, Bacon & Co
The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main postage stamp in the United Kingdom until 1879

Droxford, Hampshire, 1905

Rozelle Gates, on the road to Burns Cottage, Ayr, Ayrshire, 1913. From the Caledonia series of postcards

A Trial Spin of the Cornell Crews on Cayuga Lake, 1906

High Street, Fremantle, Australia, c1900s. Published by P. Falk & Co. Ltd

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

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

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