Series 131: The post office

PXE 731/635-655

series

approximately 1937

Graphic Materials, Photographs

412042

21 photographic prints - 20 x 25 cm or smaller - silver gelatin

Depicts duties of postal and telecommunications workers, including operating switches, sorting, loading, unloading and delivering mail, line maintenance. Equipment and transport vehicles feature also.

635. Sorting mail
636. Telephone switchboard female operators
637. Unloading air mails at Rose Bay
638. Main branch. Stamp cancelling machine, 600 letters per minute
639. Unloading air mails at Rose Bay
640. Sorting mail
641. Kidderminerst, birthplace of 'Father of Penny Postage', Sir Rowland Hill
642. Unloading of shipborne mail 1930s
643. Mail sorting machine
644. Sorting mail GPO (General Post Office) Sydney
645. Mail transport truck
646. Mailman delivering mail on foot
647. Operating Room, Telegraph Branch, Newcastle
648. Unloading shipborne mail
649. Unloading air mails at Rose Bay
650. Sorting mail
651. GPO (General Post Office) Sydney
652. Lone faultman at work
653. Trunk room, GPO (General Post Office), 6 December 1937
654. Mail and passenger ship
655. Mail sorting room

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titled from accompanying envelope.

21 images from an original set of 34 (accompanying envelope).

'NSW Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse. 'PMG Dept. Engineer's Branch, Sydney' stamped on reverse PXE 731/635, PXE 731/636, PXE 731/638, PXE 731/645, PXE 731/650, PXE 731/653 and PXE 731/654. 'Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/637 and PXE 731/639. 'Newcastle Herald feature bureau' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/647 and PXE 731/652. 'Universal Pictorial Press & Agency' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/641.