Australia.
Telegrams used for special communications - depicted in humorous postcards.
Telegrams used for special communications - depicted in humorous postcards.
- Australia 1901-1988
- New South Wales
- Overview of NSW
- Telegraph lines
- Telegraph Offices
- Date stamps
- Forms
- Envelopes
- Instructional annotation
- Collect
- Delayed
- Free
- Immediate Urgent
- Reply paid
- Rates
- Stamps
- 1871 Telegraph stamps
- 1885 proposal
- 1893 proposal
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- International
- Special aspects
From the late 1800s to about the 1940s, many postcards were printed with humorous references to telegrams. They addressed various themes and examples of these are shown below:
- concept of having telegrams;
- delivery problems;
- unfaithful husbands;
- unfaithful wives;
- children;
- "bad" personal news;
- other comments on the telegrams;
Concept of having telegrams.
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 Used at Torquay 9 September 1912. |
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 Send a telegram to your wife that your affairs keep you in Paris. |
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 There were few messengers who dressed in this way. |
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