19 Rare Lantern Slides Show the Postmen from 1914 - 1918
Here is a gallery of lantern slides from The Postal Museum depicting postal operations for different nationalities at the time of World War One.
Nearly all of these pictures were hand-colored. Handwritten captions in black ink are also on labels above the images shown below the slides.
British Army Post Office, 1914-18
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British Field Post Office, France, 1914-18
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Canadian Field Post Office, 1914-18
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Distribution of Letters, French, 1914-18
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Fetching Christmas Mails, 1918
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French Field Post, 1914-18
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French Pigeon Post (Ruhr), 1914-18
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German Army Parcel Post, 1914-18
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German Field Post, 1914-18
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German Field Post, 1914-18
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German Military Parcel Postmen, 1914-18
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India Military Camp Post Office, 1914-18
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Italian Soldiers Writing Home, 1914-18
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Army Post Office, London, 1914-18
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Pigeon Post Flanders, 1914-18
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Suvla Bay Post Office, 1914-18
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The Field Post Office, Holkham Camp, 1914
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Writing Home in Dug-Out, 1914-18
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Writing home, France, 1914-18
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