Mail Collection (page 69)

SAN FRANCISCO: POST OFFICE. Lithograph, c1849

MAIL SERVICE, 1799. Woodcut advertisement from The Northern Budget, Troy, New York, 1799

CALIFORNIA MINING SCENE. Cover illustrated with a mining scene, postmarked from Jacksonville, California, and addressed to a recipient in Calais, Maine, c1851

PONY EXPRESS. The Pony Express Rider. Oil on canvas, 1920, by Edward J. Hoslag

GPO
28th May 1918: The General Post Office in O Connell Street, Dublin. Two years earlier it had served as the headquarters of the leaders of the Easter rising

Parcel Delivery
19th October 1918: Parcels piled high in a South Western Railways horse-drawn wagon, ready for delivery from Nine Elms goods yard, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Post Bus
May 1913: A motorised passenger mail vehicle in Kent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The First Air Mail
9th September 1911: The first air mail leaves Hendon on its way to Windsor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mail Vans
July 1912: Lines of identical mail vans in a garage in Shoreditch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Letter Box
circa 1910: An elderly lady reaches to post a letter in a postbox fixed to a lamppost. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Post Vans
1909: Horse-drawn Postal Vans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Postal Vans
June 1911: A row of General Post Office Mail Motor Vans and a steam traction engine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

US Mail
American Mail Vans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Underground Mail
9th February 1928: Mail in containers are loaded into trains at Mount Pleasant depot in London. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Passenger Mail Van
1st May 1913: A passenger motor mail van, at Ashford in Kent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Christmas Mail
22nd December 1916: Sacks of Christmas mail piled up at Waterloo Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Telegraph Car
1st July 1907: A special travelling Post Office telegraph van in use at Lords cricket ground, London, for the international between England and South Africa

Post Office barrel, Galapagos Islands
Famous Post Office barrel. In continuous use since the 18th century. Floreana Island, Post Office Bay, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Post Office barrel, Galapagos Islands
Famous Post Office barrel. In continuous use since the 18th century. Floreana Island, Post Office Bay, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Balloon Post
A balloon leaves Paris by night, carrying mail out of the city during the siege by Prussian forces, December 1870. Original publication: Illustrated London News

General Post Office
circa 1915: Exterior view of the General Post Office on 8th Avenue at 34th Street, New York City, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1913

The Knight by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov
The Knight - a painting by Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926). Date: 15th century

Postal Sack Label - Royal Mail - postage from London (SW1) to Aberdeen Date: circa 1970s

Ukbekistan - Mail Carrier distributing newspapers
Ukbekistan (former Soviet Central Asia) - A horseback Mail Carrier distributing newspapers in the native language. Date: 1933

A postman trying to deliver in the heavy snow in Bough Beech, Kent. 28th December 1962

Europe, Ireland, Kilkenny. Green mail drop in stone wall. Credit as: Dennis Flaherty
Ireland, Kilkenny. Green mail drop in stone wall. Credit as: Dennis Flaherty / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont(RF)

mailbox
Europe, Germany, Warnemunde, mailbox

mail box, Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice
Mail box, Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice

Postman and Postbox - June 1940
No letters, but birds nesting inside a rural postbox. George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref. No. Garland N19498

A United States Mail car delivering mail to an airplane. Photograph, c1918
U.S. AIR MAIL, c1918. A United States Mail car delivering mail to an airplane. Photograph, c1918

Paul Roliers mail carrying balloon falling into the North Sea, on its way from Paris to Norway during
MAIL BALLOON CRASH, 1870. Paul Roliers mail carrying balloon falling into the North Sea, on its way from Paris to Norway during the Franco-Prussian War, 1870. American newspaper engraving

Only surviving piece of mail carried on John Wises Jupiter balloon flight, Indiana, 1859
JUPITER BALLOON, 1859. Only surviving piece of mail carried on John Wises Jupiter balloon flight, Indiana, 1859

Picking up the mail! A photo taken in July 1929 between Boston and New York. Date: 1929

Beardmore WBIIB, G-EARX, air-mail transport

The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail prize
The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail 1, 000 prize for the first flight of one mile in a closed circuit by a British pilot in an all-British in September 1909. Horace Short is on the right

Most northern post office in world, Ny-Alesund, Oscar II Land, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, August

Picture No. 10863259
Helicopter and outback letterbox - aerial image.Twice a week the train will stop to deliver and pick up the mail for this station. Bushy Park Cattle Station, North Queensland, Australia Date:

Picture No. 10863211
Bushy Park Cattle Stationճ letterbox.the train will stop to deliver mail. 60km south of Mount Isa, Queensland,.Australia Date:

Picture No. 10767586
Oceanic Blue Shark - Diver testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit (Prionace glauca) Date:

Picture No. 10767880
Whitetip / white-tip Reef Shark - Shark swimming very close to diver in Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit. Diver has not yet sighted shark (Triaenodon obesus) Date:

Picture No. 10767734
Whitetip / white-tip reef SHARK - Valerie Taylor testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit against the bite of a Whitetip Reef shark. (Triaenodon obesus) Date:

Picture No. 10767735
Blue SHARK - Valerie Taylor testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit in open ocean, 72 miles off the Californian Coast. (Prionace glauca) Date:

Picture No. 10767733
Blue SHARK - Biting Valerie Taylor who is testing the protection of a Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit, Bait is used to attract the shark. (Prionace glauca) Date:

Picture No. 10767584
Oceanic Blue Shark - Diver testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit (Prionace glauca) Date:

Picture No. 10767585
Oceanic Blue Shark - Diver testing Chain Mail / Stainless Steel mesh protective Suit (Prionace glauca) Date:

American poster warning that careless communication may be harmful to the war effort. Silkscreen, 1943
WWII: CARELESS TALK POSTER. American poster warning that careless communication may be harmful to the war effort. Silkscreen, 1943

RSR 2 / 6th Battalion, At Tank (return journey), 1917
Royal Sussex Regiment Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: RSR Uncat Acc 3284 Vol 1 2/6th Batt/126 1917 Postcard. W.F.F. " Letters for John Bull Only", " Who shall hang"

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