Mail Collection (page 3)

The first aerial mail is posted

Air Mail to Africa Poster
Poster, Air Mail to Africa, showing two Africans looking up at airliner G-ABPI. 20th century

Poster advertising Royal Mail Line Mediterranean Cruises, with Venice and gondolas. 20th century

Ballon-Poste 1871
A Ballon-Poste loaded with mail leaves the place Saint- Pierre, Montmartre Date: January 1871

Stagecoach stop in a town along the post road
Village stagecoach stop to change horses, early 1800s. Color halftone reproduction of an S.M. Arthurs illustration

Texas to Pacific Coast stagecoach schedule and price list, 1838
Schedule and ticket prices for the San Antonio & San Diego Mail-Line, circa 1838. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Royal Mail Line Poster
Striking poster for the Royal Mail Shipping Line to South America, depicting a large ship or passenger liner nearing a harbour

Royal Mail Lines L Amerique du Sud
Royal Mail Lines poster for the French office in Paris advertising travel to South America, to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The ocean liner advertised is the Andes

Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor with the airmail
The aviator Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor from Hendon on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor

West Indies by Royal Mail Steam Packet Company poster
Poster advertising the service to the West Indies by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company ship RMSP Atlantis. The poster features a colourful and cheery man sitting on a donkey

RMS Empress of Britain, ocean liner
The RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Empress of Britain, an ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931, owned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company

SS Orsova, 1909
Photograph of the Orient Steam Navigation Companys Australian Mail Liner SS Orsova at sea, 1909. Built in 1909 by John Brown and Co

The Arrival of the Indian Mail at Folkestone, 1844
Engraving showing the Mail ship entering Folkestone Harbour, with the Express Train standing by to receive the mail and take it to London

Londons new telephone-post kiosk
A new telephone kiosk in use in a London street, showing a caller inside, postage stamps being bought from the machine outside, and a postman collecting mail from the letterbox

Gustav Hamels plane ready to leave Hendon for Windsor
Gustav Hamels aeroplane ready to leave Hendon Aerodrome for Windsor on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Knights Templar / Effigy
A effigy of Geoffrey de Magnaville Earl of Essex & Templar Knight

Rocket Mail to I O Wight
Gerard Zucker demonstrates his rocket system for a postal service between the English mainland and the Isle of Wight, but his rocket travels only three kilometres

Robert, Comte D artois
ROBERT DE FRANCE, comte d ARTOIS brother of Louis IX, military leader

Womens Hats 1916
What the well-dressed American female is wearing on her head in 1916 - from a mail order catalog by Bellas Hess

Futuristic airmail airship
A futuristic airmail airship with a vast array of wings

Portrait of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu, detail (oil on canvas
LRI4670294 Portrait of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu, detail (oil on canvas, 17th century) by Champaigne, Philippe de (1602-74) (studio of)

Beatles Fan Club Office, 10th April 1964. Anne Collingham (18) and Bettina Rose (20), joint national secretaries to The Beatles Fan Club

Sunlight filters through the roof of St. Pancras station London England during the war. Mail bags are piled up at the edge of the platform awaiting the mail train

Steamships - Asturias
Turbine passenger liner of the Royal Mail Lines employed on the South American run Date: 1934

RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Elizabeth, . 1940s

Post Office
25th January 1963: The Post Office at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Bristol
Two postmen stroll down Royal York Crescent in Bristol, 29th May 1954. Original Publication : Picture Post - 7170 - The Best and Worst of British Cities 5: Bristol, Straight Faced City - pub

The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADVE
The Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, leaving Southampton with the first Empire Mail for South Africa, 29 June 1937. [See also 56005474] Date: 1937

Alcock and Brown are presented with the Daily Mail prize of 10, 000 by Winston Churchill

Departure from Ratmanala Aerodrome Colombo
Departure from Ratmanala Aerodrome, Colombo, of the first Empire Air Mail service, 28 February 1938. Carried by a Waco YQC-6 biplane operated by Tata Air Lines, the 1

U. S. mail steam ship Arctic: Collins line builders, hull by
U.S. mail steam ship Arctic: Collins line builders, hull by Wm. H. Brown N.Y. engines by Stillman Allen & Co. Novelty Works N.Y. Date c1850. U.S

A midnight race on the Mississippi. Date c1890

S Teerwood. The mail van
A red mail van stops at a remote village in the Scottish Highlands to collect and deliver post

Old post box, Jodhpur, Rajasthan state, India, Asia

Journalists Type Copy
Journalists at the Daily Mail type up copy

William the Conqueror
WILLIAM I THE CONQUEROR dressed for conquest in his suit of mail, with broadsword and shield

Advertisement for the Daily Mail newspaper, superimposed on a black and white photograph of a busy street. early 20th century

RMS Moldavia - P&O Line - in harbour at Dover. Date: circa 1910s

P&O RMS Straithaird
India and Australia Mail and Passenger Service - the P&O vessel RMS Straithaird - 22, 500 tonnes. Date: circa 1910s

Taking aboard the first Empire Air Mail (Great Britain to South Africa) to be transported by Imperial Airways S23 C-Class flying boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, Southampton, 29 June 1937

Cover design, Pan American Airways timetable
Cover design, Pan American Airways System Atlantic Service timetable, serving Bermuda, America and Europe. July 1939

Tournament joust
They rode at full gallop till they met

Advert for Royal Mail Line cruises, 1927, London Date: 1927

Horse mail, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Delivery of the mail by horse to the Post Office in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

RMS Carnarvon Castle Passing the Needles, 1927
Illustration of the Union-Castle Line Royal Mail Motorship Carnarvon Castle passing the Needles, Isle of Wight, on its way to South Africa

Photo Equipment Rust
The Daily Mail photographer Frank Rust with an array of photographic equipment

Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter
The aviator Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter which he himself will transport by air to Windsor. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, Hendon
The aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight

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