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Avoid Sending ... Telegrams After 7pm Art.IWMPST10026

Avoid Sending ... Telegrams After 7pm Art.IWMPST10026

Avoid Sending ... Telegrams After 7pm whole: the text is in banner form, set within a white border against deep red background. image: text only. text: GPO Avoid sending, if you can, telegrams after 7 pm, espec... More

Be Brief Art.IWMPST10044

Be Brief Art.IWMPST10044

Be Brief whole: the title is positioned at the centre, set against an airbrushed grey background. The image is placed to the left of the title. image: a raised grey telephone receiver with a red cord, facing le... More

Greetings Telegrams Suspended Art.IWMPST10024

Greetings Telegrams Suspended Art.IWMPST10024

Greetings Telegrams Suspended whole: the title is arranged in banner form covering 75 percent of the poster area. The text is placed below in a black block, tilted upwards on the left. image: text only. text:GR... More

If You Must Telephone be Brief Art.IWMPST10028

If You Must Telephone be Brief Art.IWMPST10028

If You Must Telephone be Brief whole: the text is in banner form, set against grey background and held within a white border. image: red outlined hand symbol pointing to the beginning of the text. text: If you ... More

Letters for the Forces and Merchant Navy Art.IWMPST3616

Letters for the Forces and Merchant Navy Art.IWMPST3616

Letters for the Forces and Merchant Navy whole: the title is arranged in banner form at the top, with a dark blue text box below. Both are set against a roughly rendered grey background. image: text only. text:... More

Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond Art.IWMPST10003

Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond Art.IWMPST10003

Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond whole: the title and subtitle are placed at the top and bottom. Other text is integrated into the design. image: three overlapping coloured squares laid diag... More

Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond Art.IWMPST10005

Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond Art.IWMPST10005

Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond whole: the main title is positioned on the left-hand side within an horizontally pinstriped border. Three main text blocks are positioned on the right-hand s... More

Letters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy Art.IWMPST10029

Letters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy Art.IWMPST10029

Letters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy whole: the title and main text are arranged in banner form and held within a frame, the top left of which transforms into clouds. image: three stylized clouds top lef... More

National Assets Art.IWMPST10006

National Assets Art.IWMPST10006

National Assets whole: the main heading and the majority of the text are incorporated into a large telegraph image set against a deep blue sky. image: a telegraph curled in a 'S' shape around telephone wires, w... More

Post Office Telegram Art.IWMPST10025

Post Office Telegram Art.IWMPST10025

Post Office Telegram whole: the image occupies the top half, with the text positioned below. image: a post office telegram takes the form of a postman on a speeding bicycle through the application of a simple ... More

Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST10059

Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST10059

Telegraph Less whole: the title covers the whole, set against air-brushed grey background, with the word 'less' roughly circled in blue. image: text only. text: Telegraph LESS GPO AUSTIN COOPER PRD.346. PRINTE... More

Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST4040 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST4040 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Telegraph Less whole: the image is positioned centrally, occupying three-quarters of the poster area, with the title and text positioned below. image: a three-quarter length view of a female telegraphist positi... More

Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST4041

Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST4041

Telegraph Less whole: the image is positioned to the left, with the text placed upper right and the title lower right. image: two telegraphists sitting in profile, side-by-side. The nearer one types telegrams o... More

Telegraph Less, Telephone Less and Travel Less Art.IWMPST3617

Telegraph Less, Telephone Less and Travel Less Art.IWMPST3617

Telegraph Less, Telephone Less and Travel Less whole: the title is arranged in banner form, covering the entire poster and held within six coloured circles. All set against a grey background with mottled edges.... More

Telegraph Less, Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10007

Telegraph Less, Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10007

Telegraph Less, Telephone Less whole: the main heading is palced across the bottom half, with the main text across the top half, and a thick vertical blue band to the right. image: text only. text: The telegrap... More

Telegraph less, Telephone less Art.IWMPST10011

Telegraph less, Telephone less Art.IWMPST10011

Telegraph less, Telephone less whole: the title is positioned in the lower half, below the main text which is held within a blue square. image: text only. text: EFFECTIVE USE OF MAN-POWER IS THE KEY TO VICTORY ... More

Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10045 - Public domain banknote scan

Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10045 - Public domain banknote scan

Telephone Less whole: the title covers most of the poster area, running left to right, divided by the centrally positioned image. image: a two-tone image of a raised telephone receiver facing right. text: telep... More

Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10056 - Public domain banknote scan

Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10056 - Public domain banknote scan

Telephone Less whole: the title covers the whole and is set over a background of red and blue diagonal stripes. image: text only. text: GPO TELEPHONE LESS PRD. 348. PRINTED FOR H.M STATIONERY OFFICE BY ST. MIC... More

Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10057 - Public domain banknote scan

Telephone Less Art.IWMPST10057 - Public domain banknote scan

Telephone Less whole: the title covers the whole and is set against a green background. The word 'telephone' is held within a lozenge shaped frame and the word 'less' is set over an airbrushed horizontal band. ... More

Telephone Line Time is Precious Art.IWMPST10013

Telephone Line Time is Precious Art.IWMPST10013

Telephone Line Time is Precious whole: the main title is placed across the top, the letter 'P' in telephone extending to form an image of a telegraph insulator. The subtitle is placed across the bottom. image: ... More

Telephone Line Time is Precious Art.IWMPST4037

Telephone Line Time is Precious Art.IWMPST4037

Telephone Line Time is Precious whole: the main title is placed across the top, the subtitle across the bottom, and the images positioned left and right. image: linear representation of switchboard operator pos... More

The Telegraph Service gets Busier Every Day Art.IWMPST10023

The Telegraph Service gets Busier Every Day Art.IWMPST10023

The Telegraph Service gets Busier Every Day whole: the title and text are arranged in banner form and set within a bracket design against a mid-green background. image: text only. text:The TELEGRAPH SERVICE get... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6420

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6420

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A wide view of the Emergency Telephone Bureau which has been set up to provide telephone facilities for those who have had their supply damaged or destroye... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6421

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6421

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 At the Emergency Telephone Bureau, an attendant gives change to a member of the public so that he can use one of the coin-operated public telephones at the... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6422

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6422

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 Incoming messages for bombed out subscribers to the telephone service are received by a team of people on special telephones at the Emergency Telephone Bur... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6423

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6423

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A messenger boy (centre) runs down a London street in order to deliver the message received by staff at the Emergency Telephone Bureau on behalf of a telep... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6424

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6424

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A messenger boy delivers a message to the office of a telephone subscriber whose own telephone system has been damaged following an air raid. The subscrib... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6425

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6425

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 After delivering a message, the messenger boy accompanies the telephone subscriber to the Emergency Telephone Bureau, where this business man can make a te... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6426

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6426

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 Upon arrival at the Emergency Telephone Bureau, this businessman is able to make a telephone call in response to a message he received from the messenger s... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6427

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6427

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A wide view of a busy 'auto-manual' switchboard at a London telephone exchange. In the foreground, telephonists connect TOL calls, whilst assistance and e... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6431

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6431

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 Men at work at the telephone exchange. When a fault is reported, dockets are passed to these men at the test boards, who then test the line to find the pr... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6432

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6432

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A view of men and women at work in the busy Central Control Room. It is in this underground room that reports of damage to plant are received and recorded... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6436

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6436

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A telephone engineer at work on part of the Main Frame. This photograph shows the protective fuses which are connected in every circuit.

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6437

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6437

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 An engineer at work to localise a fault on a telephone line between two exchanges (a junction) or on a subscriber's line. Parts of the Main Frame circuit ... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6440

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6440

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 In the yard at the Repair Depot, repair lorries are already loaded and ready to start. Members of repair crews hurry to their vehicles, some of them still... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6442

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6442

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A large roll of cable is loaded onto a truck at the repair deport for transport to the location of the damaged cables. These huge reels of cable, a stock ... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6443

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6443

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 A large roll of cable is loaded onto a truck at the repair deport for transport to the location of the damaged cables. These huge reels of cable always st... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6445

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6445

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 At the scene of the 'incident', telephone repair crews unroll new cables on a bomb damaged London street in order to breach the gap in telephone supply cau... More

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6450

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 D6450

The Telephone Service Carries On, London, January 1942 Back at the telephone repair depot after having laid new cables somewhere in London, members of this repair crew are now on Home Guard duty. One Home Guar... More

The Telephonist Art.IWMPST10014

The Telephonist Art.IWMPST10014

The Telephonist whole: the image is positioned left, with the text on the right and arranged in banner form. The title is placed top right. image: black and white photographic image of female telephonist, seen... More

Think Ahead Art.IWMPST8414

Think Ahead Art.IWMPST8414

Think Ahead whole: the title and image are integrated, set against a black background and held within an irregular rectangular frame. image: two stylized heads, positioned at right angles to one another, with o... More

Think Twice Art.IWMPST10042

Think Twice Art.IWMPST10042

Think Twice whole: the main title is integrated into the image, running diagonally from the left foreground to the right midground, passing through a telephone image. image: two flattened, stylized figures, one... More

Think Twice Art.IWMPST10043

Think Twice Art.IWMPST10043

Think Twice whole: the main title is integrated into the image, running from the left foreground to the right mid-ground, forming a 'T' shape. The image bisects the title, with the subtitle positioned bottom ri... More

Think Twice Art.IWMPST3638

Think Twice Art.IWMPST3638

Think Twice whole: the title and image are integrated, set against a brick-red background, and held within an irregular rectangular frame. image: two stylised figures situated in a featureless landscape. Both p... More

Trunk Telephone Service Art.IWMPST10053

Trunk Telephone Service Art.IWMPST10053

Trunk Telephone Service whole: the text and title are arranged in banner form with the main title across the top, and the subtitles and text arranged below. image: large red circle placed right of centre and ov... More

Unseen but Unceasing Art.IWMPST10009

Unseen but Unceasing Art.IWMPST10009

Unseen but Unceasing whole: the main title extends from the lower left and is incorporated into a photo-montage image. image: photographic image of female telecommunications worker set within panel extending fr... More

Wireless War Art.IWMPST4039 during World War I

Wireless War Art.IWMPST4039 during World War I

Wireless War whole: the main title and subtitle are situated below the image. image: a silhouetted wireless operator held within a sphere, which radiates circular radio waves towards scenes of tanks, ships and ... More