Telegraph Collection

Entrance to Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada, USA
Entrance to Cal-Neva Lodge, spa resort on Stateline Road, Crystal Bay, Nevada, USA, near Lake Tahoe. circa 1930

Daily Telegraph - printing room 1900
Daily Telegraph, printing room in Fleet Street, London. Date: 1900

Brunels SS Great Eastern, Milford Haven, South Wales
Brunels iron sailing steamship, the SS Great Eastern, berthed at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, during the 1870s. The ship is so large that it runs the length of Hamilton Terrace

Daily Telegraph front pages, 1914, 1918 and 1919, WW1
Daily Telegraph front pages for 3 August 1914 and 11 November 1918, marking the beginning and end of the First World War

Bank and shops, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Wyoming Valley Trust Company and Second National Bank (left) and Jonas Longs Sons department store, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1907

Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1905

Kings Cross station, London, British Railways, c1949-1950
Kings Cross station, London, British Railways. View along the busy platform 10, with the 10.00 service to Edinburgh (the Flying Scotsman) preparing for departure. c1949-50

Great Eastern laying transatlantic telegraph cable
Steamship " Great Eastern" attempting to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Advert / Camp Coffee 1890S
Camp Coffee is still the best

Female telegraph operator, 1910
A female operator can be seen here working the switchboard at the Paddington Telegraph Office in 1910

Orford Ness Lighthouse, Suffolk
View of Orfordness (Orford Ness) Lighthouse, and the station of the submarine electric telegraph linking England and Holland

New Milton, Hampshire - Station Road. I can report that the Coal and Manure Merchants is now a Ladbrokes...! Date: circa 1908

Henfield Village - 1947
View of village lane looking towards the church. Contemporary car on left hand side and another in a garage facing. George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref. No. N28894

Early fire brigade street alarm
Early fire brigade alarm system. Historical artwork of a fireman testing a 19th-century combined telephonic and telegraphic street fire alarm system

View down the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A view down the High Street from the Bear Hotel, in the town centre, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with snow on the ground. Recently installed telegraph wires can be seen above

Sir Francis Ronalds
Portrait of English inventor, Sir Francis Ronalds (1788-1873), inventor of the electric telegraph in 1816

Liverpool / St Nicholas
Liverpool: St Nicholas Church and Telegraph Tower

Telegraph Office 1900
Around a hundred telegraph clerks are employed in this one room alone at the Central Telegraph Office, London

Porthcurno Cable Station
Porthcurno cable terminal in Cornwall, built by the Falmouth Gibraltar Malta Telegraph company

Telegraph Office 1859
The offices of the Electric and International Telegraph Company in Moorgate Street, London

Aerial view, Bunder Road, Karachi, Pakistan
Aerial view, Bunder Road (now M. A. Jinnah Road), Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan, on a busy day. Date: circa 1950

Map of British Empire showing international cable
Map of the British Empire (coloured red), showing the All-British international cable going round the world, enabling telegraphic communication. Date: circa 1902

Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Anglesey, North Wales
View of Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. The underwater Atlantic telegraph came ashore here. Date: early 20th century

Telegram Boys 1930S
A line-up of smart young telegraph boys with immaculate uniforms and highly polished shoes

Sheffield Weekly Telegraph poster: Christmas 1904
From an original at Sheffield Libraries: y12601

Telegram from Queen
The Queen sends a thank-you telegram to the earl of Bessborough, patron of the Chichester Festival. Date: 1962

Telegraph receiver. Historical artwork of a Breguet telegraph receiver. Messages arrived at the receiver in wires as a series of long and short electric pulses

Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroad
Linemen stringing telegraph wire beside the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Telegraph key, 1860s
Civil War telegraph sending-key in working order, living history demonstration, Shiloh National Battlefield, Tennessee. Digital photograph

Ford Thunderbird America

Platform at Rugby railway station, Warwickshire, England
Down platform at Rugby railway station, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1894

Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable, 1865

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline Laying the Earthwire on July 21st, 1865, 1865

Quayside, Padstow, Cornwall
The Quayside, Padstow, Cornwall - in quieter less-foody times... Date: circa 1910s

The Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa
The Harbour Front - Dar-es-Salaam (" Haven of Peace" ), Tanzania, East Africa - showing the Anzani front and the Cathedral. Date: circa 1910s

Calle Comercio (Commercial Road), Concepcion, Chile. Date: 1904

Main Street, Natchez, Mississippi, USA
View of a busy Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Date: circa 1904

Pug Peter -- rabbit riding a kangaroo
Pug Peter -- The High Jump. A rabbit in riding costume on the back of a kangaroo, jumping over a telegraph wire. Date: 1905

Guglielmo Marconi, radio inventor
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor of the radio. Marconi patented his radio system in Britain, established the Marconis Wireless Telegraph Company in London in 1897

Main Street - Yorktown, Virginia, USA Date: circa 1901

Cartoon, Henry Irving and F B Chatterton
Cartoon, Henry Irving (1838-1905), legendary actor-manager, and Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager, with a bust of Shakespeare in the background -- Shakespearian Experimenters

Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906
Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties

Main Street, Colebrook, New Hampshire, USA
Main Street (looking north), Colebrook, New Hampshire, USA. Date: circa 1925

HMS Monarch, British cable ship
The HMS Monarch, a British cable-laying ship. There were three cable ships of this name -- this is probably the third one, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1916. Date: 20th century

The Public Hall at the The Daily Telegraph newspaper
The hall of the Daily Telegraph newspaper looking very handsome with its red granite pillars. The view is taken looking towards Fleet Street. Date: 1914

Atlantic Cable Laying
Illustration of workers on board the Great Eastern passing out cable for the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable in July 1866. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

SALT LAKE CITY, c1861. A telegraph office, liquor store and ambrotype gallery on Main Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photograph, c1861

High Street and Sullivan School, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland Date: circa 1904

Lecture on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity
A lecture at the Charterhouse, London on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity

Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder
A photograph of Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder, able to automatically transmit and print messages through a phone line, while callers were still conversing

Demonstration of the wireless telephone, June 1920. In the 1920s, broadcasting was still in its infancy, with radio transmitters and receivers owned only by amateur enthusiasts

Valentia, Cable Terminal
Valentia, western Ireland, at the time of the laying of the first cable

Broker and Ticker-Tape
An American stockbroker receives market information on ticker-tape by the electric telegraph

CLAUDE CHAPPE 1763-1805
CLAUDE CHAPPE French Engineer. Invented a telegraph system employing visual semaphore signals. With his brother, he erected signals between Paris & Lille

Heliograph used by British army in Africa
Heliograph used in the British army in Africa, probably during the Boer War (1899-1902)

Dog with Daily Telegraph newspaper on a greetings card
Dog with a Daily Telegraph newspaper dated 5 September 1949 in its mouth, part of a greetings card. Date: 1949

Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee telegraphing message
Queen Victoria sending a message to the nation on her Diamond Jubilee. " From my heart I thank my beloved people. May God bless them. V.R and I." 1897

TELEGRAPH OPERATORS, c1912. Telegraph operators copying messages transmitted from ships at sea, at the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company school in New York. Photograph, c1912

Compton & West Marden - October 1948
View of lane through the village with the Victoria Inn on the right and a pond on the left. George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref. No. N30723

Young lady paying calls by personal airship among a maze of telegraph and telephone wires. Robidas idea of world in 1953. From A Robida Le Vingtieme Siecle Paris 1883

LCC- MFB Blackheath fire station
Blackheath fire station, located at Brigade Street, Tranquil Vale, SE3 (very near the Mary Evans Picture Library), with the escape ladder stored at the side

The HMS Collingwood and seaplane
The HMS Collingwood with a seaplane flying overhead. A St Vincent Class Dreadnought Battleship, launched in 1908, commissioned in 1910 and scrapped in 1922

Bennet Burleigh(c.1840-1914), war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1910. Two young messenger boys using the showers at the Postal Telegraph Co. in New York City. Photograph by Lewis Hines in July 1910

Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) flock on telegraph wires, Islay, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Jersey - Pontac
Jersey, Pontac - a train leaves the small local Railway Station

Finishing of the manufacture of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Completion of the Atlantic Telegraph cable as the last inch of cable passes through the machinery of Messrs Glass and Elliott at Morden Whard, East Greenwich

Telegraph Parrot
No one told this poor parrot on a telegraph pole that it would need to buy a telephone before it could chat to its mates

Chappes Telegraph - 1
The optical telegraph of Claude Chappe and his brother is erected on the Eglise de Montmartre, overlooking Paris

The traitor, 1912-14 (illustration)
PVD1698472 The traitor, 1912-14 (illustration); (add.info.: Cover of an episode of french novel "Un Tour du Monde en Aeroplane" by Henry de la Vaulx and Arnould Galopin)

Samuel F B Morse (b/w photo)
LLM7180656 Samuel F B Morse (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Samuel F B Morse)

An Example of Joint Construction, Aerial Telephone and Power Wires (b/w photo)
LLM7180641 An Example of Joint Construction, Aerial Telephone and Power Wires (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: An Example of Joint Construction)

Storage Batteries and Section of Telegraph Table (b/w photo)
LLM7180626 Storage Batteries and Section of Telegraph Table (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Storage Batteries and Section of Telegraph Table)

Marconi Wireless Station at Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex (b/w photo)
LLM7180621 Marconi Wireless Station at Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex (b/w photo) by American Photographer

Research Laboratory of the Signal Corps of the US Army (b/w photo)
LLM7180615 Research Laboratory of the Signal Corps of the US Army (b/w photo) by American Photographer

Toll Board (b/w photo)
LLM7180610 Toll Board (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Toll Board)

Seattle Station of United Wireless on University of Washington Campus (b/w photo)
LLM7180604 Seattle Station of United Wireless on University of Washington Campus (b/w photo) by American Photographer

Monarch Private Branch Board (b/w photo)
LLM7180603 Monarch Private Branch Board (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Monarch Private Branch Board)

Picture sent by Telegraph (b/w photo)
LLM7180598 Picture sent by Telegraph (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Picture sent by Telegraph)

Telegraphone used in Combination with Telephone (b/w photo)
LLM7180595 Telegraphone used in Combination with Telephone (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Telegraphone used in Combination with Telephone)

Disc Type of Telegraphone, with Cabinet (b/w photo)
LLM7180592 Disc Type of Telegraphone, with Cabinet (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Disc Type of Telegraphone, with Cabinet)

Adams Street, Jackson, Mississippi, USA - Victorian residences Date: circa 1900s

Main Street (looking southeast), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, with ZCMI department store. Date: circa 1902

View of Queen Street (from City Hall Square), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with the Adams furniture store on the James Street corner. Date: circa 1910

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"Connecting the World: The Telegraph's Timeless Legacy" Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA - where the telegraph brought news from afar to this bustling town. Step into the printing room of the Daily Telegraph in 1900 and witness the birth of mass communication. Discover the grand entrance to Cal-Neva Lodge in Nevada, USA - a place where telegrams carried messages of excitement and anticipation. Bank and shops in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA - witness how telegraph lines transformed commerce and connected businesses across states. Travel back to the 1890s with an advert for Camp Coffee - a product that reached households through telegraphic promotions. Experience the hustle and bustle at Kings Cross station in London during British Railways' golden era (c1949-1950) when telegraphs kept trains on track. Unveil history through front pages of Daily Telegraph during WW1 (1914, 1918, and 1919), showcasing how vital telegraphs were for reporting war updates. Station Road in New Milton, Hampshire takes you on a journey down memory lane as you imagine telegram deliveries shaping local lives. Witness greatness as Great Eastern lays transatlantic telegraph cables – connecting continents like never before. Meet trailblazing women like our female telegraph operator from 1910 who shattered gender norms while transmitting important messages worldwide. Stand tall beside Orford Ness Lighthouse in Suffolk – guarding against maritime perils while serving as a beacon for crucial coastal communications via telegram. Early fire brigade street alarm reminds us how rapid communication through telegraphs saved lives by summoning help swiftly when disaster struck. In every corner of the world—from small towns like Salisbury to bustling metropolises—telegraphs have left an indelible mark on human history by bridging distances, connecting people, and shaping the way we communicate.