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Delivery Collection (#5)

"Delivering the Past and Shaping the Future: A Journey Through Time" Poster, Night Mail: From vintage posters to modern advertisements

Background imageDelivery Collection: Curtiss Airplane Tests And Demonstrations; Twin Engine Biplane, Potomac Park, 1916

Curtiss Airplane Tests And Demonstrations; Twin Engine Biplane, Potomac Park, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Curtiss Airplane Tests And Demonstrations; Twin Engine Biplane, Potomac Park, 1916

Background imageDelivery Collection: Canal in a city with a turret at a stone bridge, 1788-1846. Creator: Jan Hendrik Verheyen

Canal in a city with a turret at a stone bridge, 1788-1846. Creator: Jan Hendrik Verheyen
Canal in a city with a turret at a stone bridge, 1788-1846

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Mule carts on cobbled street, Spain

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Mule carts on cobbled street, Spain

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938

Background imageDelivery Collection: Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg Packaging, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Egg Packaging, 1915. Labels for sending eggs and empty egg boxes through the post. When Tag is attached from one end the string cancels address not in use; Place Forward Postage Here; Forward

Background imageDelivery Collection: Friendship Charity Fete - Mrs. James Archibald; Miss L. Hancock; Mrs. O. McCammon, 1913

Friendship Charity Fete - Mrs. James Archibald; Miss L. Hancock; Mrs. O. McCammon, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Friendship Charity Fete - Mrs. James Archibald; Miss L. Hancock; Mrs. O. McCammon, 1913. Women in a cardboard post office

Background imageDelivery Collection: Woodward & Lothrop's Department Store, Washington, D.C. Trucks, 1912. Creator: Unknown

Woodward & Lothrop's Department Store, Washington, D.C. Trucks, 1912. Creator: Unknown
Woodward & Lothrop's Department Store, Washington, D.C. Trucks, 1912. Goods waiting for despatch by delivery van

Background imageDelivery Collection: Woodward & Lothrop's Department Store, Washington, D.C. Trucks, 1912. Creator: Unknown

Woodward & Lothrop's Department Store, Washington, D.C. Trucks, 1912. Creator: Unknown
Woodward & Lothrop's Department Store, Washington, D.C. Trucks, 1912

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Europe, between 1904 and 1938

Background imageDelivery Collection: Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Cuba and Guatemala, between 1899 and 1926

Background imageDelivery Collection: A Young Girl Asks the Mailman to Deliver a Letter, 1858. Creator: Christen Dalsgaard

A Young Girl Asks the Mailman to Deliver a Letter, 1858. Creator: Christen Dalsgaard
En ung pige beder landsbyens gamle postbud besorge et brev;A Young Girl Asks the Mailman to Deliver a Letter, 1858

Background imageDelivery Collection: Old Point Comfort, Va. - Wharf, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Old Point Comfort, Va. - Wharf, 1914

Old Point Comfort, Va. - Wharf, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Old Point Comfort, Va. - Wharf, 1914
Old Point Comfort, Virginia - Wharf, 1914. Parcels of currant jelly in Swift & Company crates

Background imageDelivery Collection: Post Office Department Mail Wagons, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Post Office Department Mail Wagons, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Post Office Department Mail Wagons, 1916
Post Office Department Mail Wagons, 1916. Save Time - Get a Mail Box

Background imageDelivery Collection: A number of Martin Ferguson's delivery wagons and horses, Jacksonville, Fla. 1902. Creator: Unknown

A number of Martin Ferguson's delivery wagons and horses, Jacksonville, Fla. 1902. Creator: Unknown
A number of Martin Ferguson's delivery wagons and horses, Jacksonville, Fla. 1902

Background imageDelivery Collection: Post Office Department - Parcel Post. Rural Free Delivery, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Post Office Department - Parcel Post. Rural Free Delivery, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Post Office Department - Parcel Post. Rural Free Delivery, 1914

Background imageDelivery Collection: Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914
Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914

Background imageDelivery Collection: Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914
Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914

Background imageDelivery Collection: Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914
Post Office Department - Parcel Post, 1914

Background imageDelivery Collection: Portrait of Nat King Cole, New York, N.Y.(?), 1938. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb

Portrait of Nat King Cole, New York, N.Y.(?), 1938. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Nat King Cole, New York, N.Y.(?), 1938

Background imageDelivery Collection: United States Express Company truck, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

United States Express Company truck, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
United States Express Company truck, between 1910 and 1917

Background imageDelivery Collection: Bureau Of Printing And Engraving truck, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Bureau Of Printing And Engraving truck, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Bureau Of Printing And Engraving truck, between 1910 and 1917

Background imageDelivery Collection: Three trucks: S.M. Frazier, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Three trucks: S.M

Three trucks: S.M. Frazier, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Three trucks: S.M
Three trucks: S.M. Frazier, between 1909 and 1914. USA. Your Credit is Good at Grogan's'. S.M. Frazier, Building Materials, Anacostia, [Washington] D.C

Background imageDelivery Collection: L'Arrivée du Courrier. Creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet

L'Arrivée du Courrier. Creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet
L'Arrivee du Courrier

Background imageDelivery Collection: Le Départ du Courrier. Creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet

Le Départ du Courrier. Creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet
Le Depart du Courrier

Background imageDelivery Collection: Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg box, between 1909 and 1923

Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Egg box, between 1909 and 1923. Labels for sending eggs and empty egg boxes through the post. When Tag is attached from one end the string cancels address not in use; Place Forward Postage Here;

Background imageDelivery Collection: Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés : Psyché livrée... 1883

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés : Psyché livrée... 1883
Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie de Saint-Maur-des-Fosses : Psyche livree a l'amour, 1883

Background imageDelivery Collection: Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917

Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Camp Meade #2, Maryland, 1917

Background imageDelivery Collection: Post office Department, Hupp Auto Railway Service, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Post office Department, Hupp Auto Railway Service, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Post office Department, Hupp Auto Railway Service, 1912. [USA. Mail is dropped from a passing train. This system was used between the 1870s and the 1930s]

Background imageDelivery Collection: Porteurs de farine, scène parisienne, 1885. Creator: Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse

Porteurs de farine, scène parisienne, 1885. Creator: Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse
Porteurs de farine, scene parisienne, 1885

Background imageDelivery Collection: Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo), 1870-71. Creator: Luigi Crosio

Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo), 1870-71. Creator: Luigi Crosio
Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo), 1870-71

Background imageDelivery Collection: The tip of the Ile de la Cite, seen from Port Saint-Nicolas, c1780. Creator: Alexandre Jean Noel

The tip of the Ile de la Cite, seen from Port Saint-Nicolas, c1780. Creator: Alexandre Jean Noel
The tip of the Ile de la Cite, seen from Port Saint-Nicolas, c1780

Background imageDelivery Collection: Delivery of locomotives to Batignolles, 1891. Creator: Ernest Jean Delahaye

Delivery of locomotives to Batignolles, 1891. Creator: Ernest Jean Delahaye
Delivery of locomotives to Batignolles, 1891

Background imageDelivery Collection: Tomato packing shed for packing and shipment north, Hazelhurst, Mississippi, 1937

Tomato packing shed for packing and shipment north, Hazelhurst, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tomato packing shed for packing and shipment north. Hazelhurst, Mississippi

Background imageDelivery Collection: Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Porters unloading Christmas parcels at a station. Illustration to a poem by D

Background imageDelivery Collection: John Irwin grocers, Pensby Road, Heswall, Merseyside

John Irwin grocers, Pensby Road, Heswall, Merseyside
John Irwin Sons & Co Ltd, cash grocers, Pensby Road, Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, with delivery van and staff posing in a group outside. Date: circa 1920

Background imageDelivery Collection: Space Donut

Space Donut
Creative food flat lay with space donut, macaron stars and orbits, falling sprinkles and tea splash. Dina Belenko

Background imageDelivery Collection: de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 3X-GAY

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter 3X-GAY (msn 553) of Republic de Guinee at London Heathrow Airport, on delivery to Guinee via Reykjavik, Iceland - London-Heathrow, UK - Lisbon, Portugal

Background imageDelivery Collection: 1962 Wales & Edwards electric milk float. Creator: Unknown

1962 Wales & Edwards electric milk float. Creator: Unknown
1962 Wales & Edwards electric milk float

Background imageDelivery Collection: 1967 Ford Transit milk float. Creator: Unknown

1967 Ford Transit milk float. Creator: Unknown
1967 Ford Transit milk float

Background imageDelivery Collection: Erick Johnson with U.S. mail team, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown

Erick Johnson with U.S. mail team, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown
Erick Johnson with U.S. mail team, between c1900 and 1927

Background imageDelivery Collection: Dog team ready to start with provisions, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown

Dog team ready to start with provisions, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown
Dog team ready to start with provisions, between c1900 and 1927

Background imageDelivery Collection: Dog team used to deliver laundry, between c1900 and 1923. Creator: Unknown

Dog team used to deliver laundry, between c1900 and 1923. Creator: Unknown
Dog team used to deliver laundry, between c1900 and 1923

Background imageDelivery Collection: Dog team carrying mail, between c1900 and 1923. Creator: Unknown

Dog team carrying mail, between c1900 and 1923. Creator: Unknown
Dog team carrying mail, between c1900 and 1923. Dog team resting near sled, with driver, in snow-covered fields

Background imageDelivery Collection: Taking a government load to Copper Center, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Hunt, Phinney S

Taking a government load to Copper Center, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Hunt, Phinney S
Taking a government load to Copper Center, between c1900 and c1930

Background imageDelivery Collection: Taking a government load to Copper Center, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Hunt, Phinney S

Taking a government load to Copper Center, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Hunt, Phinney S
Taking a government load to Copper Center, between c1900 and 1927




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"Delivering the Past and Shaping the Future: A Journey Through Time" Poster, Night Mail: From vintage posters to modern advertisements, it has always been a vital part of our lives. High Street, Ayr: The bustling streets of Ayr witness countless deliveries every day, ensuring that goods reach their destinations promptly. Workers unloading sacks of flour from a Bedford truck belonging to Pledge & Son Ltd in Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire: Dedicated workers have tirelessly unloaded deliveries for generations, keeping communities nourished and businesses thriving. The Arrival of the First Thor Ballistic Missile to RAF Bom: Delivering more than just packages, this historic event marked a new era in military technology and strategic capabilities. Traffic congestion in Covent Garden, London WC2: Amidst the chaos of congested streets lies an intricate web services working relentlessly to meet demands in one of the world's busiest cities. Records of first UK aerial mail service: Taking flight above land and sea, aerial mail revolutionized how we deliver messages across vast distances with unprecedented speed. Fleet Street 1960s: As journalists raced against deadlines on Fleet Street during its heyday, couriers ensured that breaking news reached readers' doorsteps without delay. Childbirth in 1513: Delivery takes on a whole new meaning as we reflect on centuries-old practices when midwives played an essential role in safely bringing new life into this world. Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916: In times of war and separation from loved ones, special deliveries brought hope and joy to soldiers fighting far away from home during World War I. Cuba - First Pan American Airways service: Connecting nations through air travel transformed global commerce by expediting international trade routes like never before imagined. Seaplane carrier pigeon WW1 .