Mail Collection (#75)

Wm. H. Crane. The Pacific mail by Paul M. Potter. Date c1894

Ozark children getting mail from RFD box, Missouri. Date 1940 May

The limited mail Elmer E. Vances famous railroad play. Date c1899

French Army in the Saarbrucken area, 1939
French soldiers receiving post, with letters being opened on the spot in excitement. Theh French Army depicted here by Sphere special artist, Fortunino Matania in the northern section

Decorative Christmas frieze - coach and horses
Simple but dramatic Christmas scene featuring a silhouette of a coach and horses, with postillion in full flow, dashing through a snowy landscape. c. 1925

Alexandria, Egypt - Steam Packet Docks Date: circa 1910s

Lord Rothermere
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (26 April 1868 26 November 1940), highly successful British newspaper proprietor and owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd

George Lester - Mail Carrier at Cortland Post Office
George Lester - Mail Carrier No.1 at The Cortland Post Office, NY, USA. Date: circa 1915

Mail delivery to ASC workshop behind the lines, WW1
A delivery of mail to men at an ASC (Army Service Corps) travelling workshop, working behind the lines during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

RMSP Alcantara, armed merchant cruiser, WW1
RMSP (Royal Mail Steam Packet) Alcantara, a merchant cruiser which was turned into an armed ship during the First World War

Louis Bleriot with Lord Northcliffe at the Savoy
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Louis Bleriot in London with Lord Northcliffe after Channel
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Daily Mail Home Exhibition - Australian Wines
Daily Mail Home Exhibition - An exhibit promoting the wines of Australia Date: circa 1930s

LNWR - Royal Mail Train at Rugby Station
London and North Western Railway Company - The Scotch Express at Rugby Station. The locomtive is the Invincible. Date: 1904

RMSPC Pier, Barbardos
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Pier, Bridgetown, Barbados Date: circa 1910s

Soldiers of Henry III
Soldiers of the reign of Henry III : on the left a man of arms in full armour; right, a cross-bowman, in a long mail tunic : behind, a peasant, unarmoured, bearing a spear. Date: 1250

Boarding a Coach
Travellers board the mail coach which will carry them over the Saint Gotthard pass, Switzerland. Date: 1877

Britannia Cunarder 2
Cunard passenger liner which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ignominiously ends her career sunk as a target ship. Date: launched 1840

Packet for Balloon Post
An actual envelope for a letter sent by balloon post out of Paris during the Siege. The letters were limited to a weight of 4 grams ! Date: 1870

Taylor Thermometer / 1897
Thermometer by Taylor Bros. Co. a most appropriate Christmas, Wedding or Birthday present !? Date: 1897

German Knights & Lady
German knights & lady Date: 1371 - 1393

Coach Going down Hill
A mail coach descends a hill. Date: circa 1835

Overland - Telegraph
The old pre-electric telegraph signals the abstract of the Indian Mail from Marseille to Paris, or vice versa. Date: 1844

Australian Postman
Gathering the mail from a postbox in Australia

German Knights / 14th C
German knights Date: circa 1370

Old Maids / Postman / Mail
Two unmarried women of a certain age, waiting to see what the postman has for them - could it be Valentines Day? Date: circa 1910

Mail-Coach Leaving
With letters and packets for Brighton, the mail-coach leaves the General Post Office, London Date: circa 1840s

VALENTINEs DAY CARD. Printed in Germany, 1909

Red Royal Mail post box at Wetheringsett, Suffolk

Old postbox by roadside, with melting frost in morning sunshine, looking towards River Barl, Landacre, Exmoor N. P
Old postbox by roadside, with melting frost in morning sunshine, looking towards River Barl, Landacre, Exmoor N.P. Somerset, England, october

MEXICAN EXPEDITION, 1916. Banner for Wells Fargo & Co Express, 1916, promising parcel delivery to troops in the Mexican Expedition against the forces of Pancho Villa

Spam junk mail, computer artwork
Spam junk mail. Computer artwork of multiple envelopes of junk mail surrounding a computer monitor. This could represent spam, the name given to unsolicited mass mailings sent by email

Mobile telephone text messaging (SMS). Conceptual computer artwork of the worldwide use of mobile telephones to send text messages (envelope symbols)

Worldwide mobile telephone use
Worldwide use of mobile (cellular) telephones, conceptual computer artwork

Mobile telephone hate mail. Conceptual computer artwork of snakes and a mobile telephone being used to send text messages (envelope symbols)

Junk mail

AMERICAN EXPRESS SHIPPING. Advertisement for American Express Company shipping, September 1917

Red post box, City Hall Square, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe

Red post boxes and marble church entrance, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe

UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS, 1937. Census directors John D. Biggers, William L. Austin and Frederick A. Gosnell give final instructions to female clerks receiving completed questionnaires from

KOREAN WAR: NAVY MAILBAG. Mailbag sent along the highline from the naval destroyer U. S. S
KOREAN WAR: NAVY MAILBAG. Mailbag sent along the highline from the naval destroyer U.S.S. Cowell off the coast of Korea. Photographed 1953

WORLD WAR I: RED CROSS. American Red Cross workers providing water and mail service at Union Station, Washington, D. C
WORLD WAR I: RED CROSS. American Red Cross workers providing water and mail service at Union Station, Washington, D.C. c1918

Silent Film Still. Clara Bow
SILENT FILM STILL. Clara Bow

STAMP: BICYCLE POST, 1894. California Private Bicycle Post cover, 1894

GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE. The bridge across the Hudson River, opened for traffic in 1931, connecting upper Manhattan with New Jersey

BOSTON: NORTH STATION. North Railroad Station at Boston, Massachusetts. Photopostcard, c1910

NEW YEAR CARD, 1450. A New Years card depicting the Christ Child and the Virgin Mary. The earliest known holdiay greeting. German woodcut, c1450

PANAMA CANAL, c1910. Looking south at middle lock, east chamber, Gatun Locks, on the Panama Canal. Photopostcard, c1910

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