Communications Collection (#8)

Illumination from the MacDumon Gospel
An illumination from the MacDurnon Gospel, an Irish medieval manuscript

The library of Lucullus, general & statesman, known for his lavish lifestyle

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

Actress Jackie Lane lying in bed naked talking on the telephone March 1959

Untitled, Carl Emile Muecke, 19th century (oil on canvas)
8620094 Untitled, Carl Emile Muecke, 19th century (oil on canvas) by Mucke, Karl (1806-91); Fine arts museum, Sa'd Abad museum complex, Tehran, Iran; (add.info.: Untitled, Carl Emile Muecke)

Unfortunate news, 1882 (oil on canvas)
8620201 Unfortunate news, 1882 (oil on canvas) by Scherer, Giorgio (1831-96); Stuard gallery, Parma, Italy; (add.info.: Infausta notizia, 1882, Giorgio Scherer, oil on canvas, Stuard gallery, Parma)

Arthur Burrows at the microphone (b/w photo)
3786321 Arthur Burrows at the microphone (b/w photo); (add.info.: Arthur Burrows (1882-1947) at the microphone broadcasting for 2LO. Director of Programmes for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

British parcels post -cage for reg. Parcels, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
British parcels post -cage for reg. Parcels, between c1910 and c1915.

British Parcels Post-sorting parcels for foreign mail, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
British Parcels Post-sorting parcels for foreign mail, between c1910 and c1915.

Postmaster Morgan, P.M.G. Hitchcock, & Ovington, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Postmaster Morgan, P.M.G. Hitchcock, & Ovington, 1911.

Christmas Mail, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Christmas Mail, between c1910 and c1915.

Postal Tel. Co. Summer Uniform, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Postal Tel. Co. Summer Uniform, between c1910 and c1915. Young Messenger Boy Poses in Postal Telegraph Company Summer Uniform.

Letter for Santa Claus, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Letter for Santa Claus, between c1910 and c1915.

P.M. Morgan, P.M.G. Hitchcock, & Ovington, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
P.M. Morgan, P.M.G. Hitchcock, & Ovington, 1911. Shows the first official airmail flight in the United States with pilot Earle Lewis Ovington (1879-1936) in a Bleriot XI airplane

Clement Driscoll seated at desk, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Clement Driscoll seated at desk, 1910.

Frank Hitchcock, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Frank Hitchcock, 1910.

C.E.H. Hobhouse, seated, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
C.E.H. Hobhouse, seated, 1915.

John Purroy Mitchel, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
John Purroy Mitchel, 1914. John Purroy Mitchel (1879-1918) who served as mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917.

Pack horse used by U.S. Army Signal Corps, carrying chest of instruments for local outfit..., 1916
Pack horse used by U.S. Army Signal Corps, carrying chest of instruments for local outfit for wireless telegraph, 1916.

A.S. Burleson, Franklin Lane, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
A.S. Burleson, Franklin Lane, between c1910 and c1915.

Sec'y. A.S. Burleson, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Sec'y. A.S. Burleson, 1913. Shows Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General in President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet from 1913 to 1921.

Sec'y. A.S. Burleson, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Sec'y. A.S. Burleson, 1913. Shows Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General in President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet from 1913 to 1921.

Bermocchi & his wireless "iconograph", between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Francesco de Bernocchi & his wireless "iconograph", between c1910 and c1915. Wireless icongraph, a sort of early fax machine will transmit messages, sketches, autographs, shorthand

Bermocchi & his wireless "iconograph", between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Francesco de Bernocchi & his wireless "iconograph", between c1910 and c1915. Wireless icongraph, a sort of early fax machine will transmit messages, sketches, autographs, shorthand

Edward Bannick, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Edward Bannick, between c1910 and c1915.

Signalling from USS Arkansas, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Signalling from USS Arkansas, between c1910 and c1915. Shows sailors semaphore flag signalling.

Belgian Signal post, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Belgian Signal post, between c1915 and 1918. Shows soldiers at a Belgian signal post during World War I.

Geo. J. Meyer, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Geo. J. Meyer, 1916. Shows George J. Meyer, postmaster of Buffalo, New York, politician and brewery owner; and chairman of the Erie County Democratic Committee, 1916.

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the Great Eastern off Brighton on her return home, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the Great Eastern off Brighton on her return home - from a sketch by our special artist, 1865

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: preparing for the final attempt to grapple the lost cable, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: preparing for the final attempt to grapple the lost cable - from a sketch by our special artist, 1865

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the paying-out machinery of the Great Eastern, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the paying-out machinery of the Great Eastern - from a sketch by our special artist, 1865

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the second buoy...where the cable was grappled, Aug. 8, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the second buoy, marking the exact place where the cable was grappled, Aug. 8, 1865. 'Our Special Artist has furnished sketches of the two buoys

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the first buoy...where the cable was grappled, Aug. 3, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the first buoy, marking the supposed place where the cable was grappled, Aug. 3, 1865. 'Our Special Artist has furnished sketches of the two buoys

Meeting of the British Association at Birmingham: the Reception-Room, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of the British Association at Birmingham: the Reception-Room, 1865. 'We present [a] view of the interior of the Reception-room (the Exchange Assembly-room, New-street)

The Indo-European Telegraph: Landing The Cable in the mud at Fao, Persian Gulf, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Indo-European Telegraph: Landing The Cable in the mud at Fao, Persian Gulf, 1865. 'When some four miles of cable had been paid out

Telegraph map of the Eastern World, 1865. Creator: John Dower
Telegraph map of the Eastern World, 1865. Map showing '...the progress of telegraphic communication from England in the directions of India, China

Examining the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, after raising it, on board the Great Eastern, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Examining the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, after raising it, on board the Great Eastern, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley '...of the anxious group of men...handling

The Indo-European Telegraph: Mussendom Station, Elphinstone Inlet, Persian Gulf, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Indo-European Telegraph: Mussendom Station, Elphinstone Inlet, Persian Gulf, 1865. From a sketch by Lieut. Hewett, of the gun-boat Clyde

The breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board the Great Eastern, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board the Great Eastern, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley. '...the galvanometer detected a flaw of electricity which indicated a

The late Earl Canning, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The late Earl Canning, 1862. Engraving from a photograph. Charles John Canning held the positions of Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing bystanders...at Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing the bystanders after the taking of the shore end of the cable to the Telegraph House at Valencia, 1865

The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Late Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph, 1865. Portrait of '...a most able

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: watching the Caroline going out to sea..., 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: watching the Caroline going out to sea with the shore end of the cable, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: landing the shore end of the cable...Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: landing the shore end of the cable from the Caroline at Foilhommerum, Valencia, 1865

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: receiving messages from the Great Eastern...Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: receiving messages from the Great Eastern in the instrument-room of the Telegraph House at Foilhommerum, Valencia, 1865

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable:...workmen on the road between Killarney and Valencia, 1865 Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: encampment of workmen on the road between Killarney and Valencia, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Robert Dudley

The Indo-European Telegraph: Elphinstone Inlet, Persian Gulf, with a view of the Fort, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Indo-European Telegraph: Elphinstone Inlet, Persian Gulf, with a view of the Fort, 1865. From a sketch by Lieut. Hewett, commanding the gun-boat Clyde

Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Underground works at the junction of Hampstead-Road, Euston-Road, and Tottenham-Court-Road, 1864. View showing '...what extensive subterranean works are being constructed in different parts of

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"Unveiling the Art of Communications: From Flags to Phones and Beyond" Step into a world where messages transcend time and space, as we explore the captivating realm of communications. This poster takes us on a journey through various iconic symbols that have shaped our ability to connect with one another. The Night Mail whispers secrets in the darkness, carrying words across vast distances. Just like the flags used at Nelson's famous signal during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, communication has always been vital for success. In wintry London, a Police Public Call Box stands tall amidst snowflakes, reminding us of simpler times when this humble box served as a lifeline for those seeking help or connection. Meanwhile, bookbinding tools from 1875 symbolize how knowledge was meticulously preserved and shared through written word. The flags proudly displayed by the Royal Navy evoke images of bravery and unity—a visual language understood by sailors across oceans. And who can forget the Bakelite telephone? A revolutionary device that brought voices closer together than ever before. High above RAF Chicksands' circular aerial looms large—an emblematic structure representing an era when communication centers were crucial hubs connecting nations and safeguarding information. Across borders in Paris lies The Palace of Versailles—its opulence reflecting not only power but also intricate networks built upon diplomatic exchanges between nations throughout history. Delving deeper into ancient forms of communication, Codex Troano -1 reveals Mayan wisdom etched onto pages—a testament to humanity's enduring quest for understanding each other across cultures and civilizations. A postman gracefully pedaling his Pennyfarthing bicycle transports letters with care—reminding us that even in an age dominated by technology, human touch remains essential in conveying emotions through handwritten words. Bodinnick captures Fowey's charm circa 1930—a picturesque scene where mailboats once sailed along rivers delivering heartfelt messages from loved ones near and far. Finally, the Ms.