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Newspaper kiosk at the Stettiner train station in Berlin, 1907

Newspaper vendor in Berlin.

Postman, around 1900

Der laengst ersehnte Liebesbrief a painting by E. Blume Siebert.

Loading of packages into the tram, 1928

In front of a post office packages are loaded into a tram.

Letter delivery in Berlin, 1897

Berlin postmen of the Reichspost delivering letters and parcels in 1897.

Postman in German Southwest Africa, 1903

A local postman in German South West Africa carries a mail bag on his head.

Pigeon post during the imperial manoeuvres, 1905

Soldiers of the German army release carrier pigeons during a manoeuvre.

Field post in oxcart in Owikokorero, 1906

An ox cart brings field mail to the camp in Owikokorero at Onjatu in what is now Namibia. Here German soldiers fought against the insurgent Herero.

Postal carriage, 1907

The rural mail is delivered with a postal carriage in the hop fields near Berlin.

Letter sorter in Berlin's Main Post Office, 1908

Employees sort in the main post office in Berlin. In the working room a warning is attached: 'Reading the postcards or the contemplation of the images on these is strictly prohibited.'

Main telegraph office in Berlin, 1909

The Main Telegraph Office in the Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin in 1909.

Postman, 1910

A postman on his round.

Post car 1910

A postal worker standing in a post car, in which mail can be sorted when driving.

Postman in the Sudeten Mountains, 1910

The postman in the Sudeten Mountains delivers the post in winter on a sledge.

Post office of wireless telegraphy, 1911

Transmission tower for wireless telegraphy at the post office in Swinoujscie. Before the post office horse carriages can be seen.

High school students as couriers, 1914

In the first weeks after the outbreak of World War I the Berlin Post Office used older students as temporary workers in order to replace mailmen who had become soldiers. The photo shows one of these carriers in a colorful school cap handing over a letter.

Carriage of mail by plane, 1912

Between Bork and Brueck i. M. the first air-mail connection was established. Here the mail bag is just passed to a pilot.

Mobilization in Berlin, 1914

Police officers adjust a poster to an advertising pillar in Berlin with the order to convene the Landsturm (People's storm troop).

Hair for military purposes

Posters are used to ask the population to collect combed out or cut hair as it is needed as a raw material for military purposes. At the official purchasing points 2 German Mark are paid for 100 grams of collected hair. Undated picture.

avenue, boulevard,

avenue, boulevard, Berlin - historical images: streets, Germany

Installation of a telegraph line, around 1900

Two soldiers of the Royal Prussian Telegraph Battalion No. 1 installing a telegraph wire. Undated photo.

Signal soldiers during an exercise, around 1900

Soldiers of a Royal Prussian telegraph department during an exercise. In the white uniform there is a cuirassier. Undated picture.

Woman on the phone

The film photo shows an actress, who phones in a wall telephone from around the turn of the century.

Laying of a telephone cable, 1893

Construction work to lay a telecommunications cable to extend the long-distance telephone network in 1893. [automated translation]

Telegraph School in Doeberitz, 1900

For the ever-growing troop units, the communication and issue of orders became increasingly important for the military in the German Empire. In addition to telephone and radio, heliographs were also used, as in the photo of the Cavalry Telegraph School on the Doeberitz military training area near Berlin.

Telephone operators in the central office Chemnitz, 1905

Women at the exchange of Chemnitz at a so-called "table system" for up to 10,000 participants.

Telephone near a fish stand in the Berlin market hall, 1911

A man speaks on a public phone next to a stand with fish in the Central Market Hall of Berlin. A sign hangs over the man with the name of the owner of a market stand, Ernst Cassube.

Cabs in Hamburg, 1912

Taxi drivers in Hamburg next to a new calling device ("Auto-Rufautomat ") in 1912.

Hanseatic kontor in the 19th century

The photo shows an old Hanseatic kontor (foreign trading post) after a painting by Wilhelm Claudius. A secretary sits at a desk and writes down what is discussed. The interior decoration is very much in the style of the period.

German Zoologist Alfred Brehm

Clerk in the 19th century

An office worker sitting at a high desk in an office furnished in the style of the period.

Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre "Sie schreibt:"("She writes:") , 1899

The drawing "Sie schreibt:" ("She writes:") by Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre. Caricature from the satirical magazine "Simplicissimus", volume 4, issue number 23 (1899). Under the picture: a poem by Heinrich Mann.

Kaiser Wilhelm II. on Corfu

German Kaiser Wilhelm II writes at his desk in the Park of the Achilleion Palace on Corfu. The Achilleion Palace with its impressive parks and its old bridge which led to the sea, was built in 1890/91 for Empress Elisabeth of Austria by the Italian architect Carita in the neo-Renaissance style. She named the building after Achilles, her favorite hero from Greek mythology. After the death of Empress Elisabeth in 1907, Kaiser Wilhelm II purchased the summer palace and vacationed there until 1914.

Student at a desk, 1907

A boy sits at a folding desk for students.

Train ride, 1910

A man and a woman together on a train. The woman writes at a table.

Prince Georg of Bavaria, 1912

Portrait of Prince Georg. He was commander of the II. Seebataillon. Prince Georg was the nephew of King Ludwig III. and the husband of Archduchess Isabella of Austria. In 1912 Prince George of Bavaria married Archduchess Isabella of Austria, but a year later the marriage was annulled because it was not consummated. Prince George subsequently became a priest.

Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), German jurist and historian. Mommsen received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902 for his 'Roman History'. His scientific works were fundamental for epigraphy and legal history. Painting by Ludwig Knaus. Photo: Heliogravure, Corpus Imaginum, Hanfstaengl Collection. [automated translation]

Scholarly room, 1906

A scholar in his library.

Adolph von Menzel

Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), German artist.

Children 1850 to 1900

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915), German physician, professor in Berlin (from 1890), Goettingen (from 1904) and Frankfurt (from 1914). From 1899 he directed the Institute of Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt. He is considered one of the fathers of chemotherapy. In 1908 he received together with I. Mechnikov the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe, 1905

Viktoria of Schaumburg-Lippe (born of Prussia, sister of Wilhelm II) sits in a parlor in a festive dress and reads. The photo was taken by the royal court photographer T. H. Voigt from Bad Homburg.

Women's and shoe fashions from 1909

Woman with patent leather mules with small silk bows.

The wife of Prince Eitel-Friedrich of Prussia, 1911

The wife of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, born Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg.

Otto von Gierke

Otto von Gierke (1841-1921), jurist and legal historian. Photograph by R. Dührkoop. Photo: Heliogravure, Corpus Imaginum, Hanfstaengl Collection. [automated translation]

Trouser skirt fashion, 1911

Women wear elegant bloomers in oriental style and read a book entitled "Scheherazade".

Vacationers on the North Sea, 1911

Tourists in deck chairs on the pier in the North Sea resort of Borkum.

Princess Wiltrud and Princess Helmtrudis of Bavaria, 1913

The daughters of the last King of Bavaria, Ludwig III.

Children reading a telegram, 1914

School boys read a telegram with war news during the First World War.

German soldiers on the Western front reading a letter, 1914

German soldiers, a father and son pictured here, in an infantry regiment near Ypres. Clearly recognizable are the gray active service uniforms, the 98 gun (held by the son), and the field gray coating on the spiked helmet. The father is wearing the so-called Sergeants buttons on his collar, the cross of the third class infantry on his cap and a hand weapon next to the non-commissioned officer's tassel on his belt.

Landlady reads out the latest dispatch from the front, 1914

Instead of the landowner who was drafted into the army, the East Elbian landlady is reading out the latest dispatches on the political situation and the situation at the front to her gathered maids, servants and villeins.

Distribution of the Extrablatt in Berlin, 19th century

Drawing of a street scene in Berlin. A man distributes the "Extrablatt". Before the invention of broadcasting this source was the most important information source for interested readers. The photo is undated.

Workers during a break, 1905

Workers of the Berlin publisher Scherl-Verlag during a work break.

Living room in Berlin, 1906

Living room in the household of a German skilled worker in Berlin.

Newspaper vendor at the train, 1907

The station bookseller sells newspapers to people travelling in a non-smoking car.

People reading newspapers follow the crisis before the outbreak of war, 1914

In the Serbian town of Nis, people read the news after the Austrian heir to the throne was murdered in Sarajevo in June 1914 and war between Austria and Serbia threatened.

Old men discuss the front line during the First World War, 1914-1918

"So is the War" - colored postcard of the Bayerischen Landeskomitee fuer freiwillige Krankenpflege im Kriege (Bavarian National Committee for Voluntary Nursing in War). It depicts old men discussing the course of war on a map in their home country according to reports from a newspaper.

Soldiers reading newspapers, 1914

German solders of the First World War inspect war pictures from the homefront during an hour of rest, printed in the newspaper 'Bilder vom Tage', 'Pictures of the Day'.

Berliners reading news on the war, 1914

At the corner of Unter den Linden and Wilhelm Street, Berliners meet and read news about the war.

Newspaper readers in Nisch, 1914

In Nisch, Serbia, men read in the newspaper about the impending outbreak of a war, just days after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo.

Albanian men with the magazine "Die Woche", 1914

Albanians pose to photographers with an edition of the magazine "Die Woche" of the Scherl publishing house.

Distribution of special editions at the outbreak of war in Berlin, 1914

Newspaper employees throw reprints with news about the war in the crowd during the days of mobilization in Berlin.

Berliner inhabitants read the proclamation of the 'state of the threat of war', 1914

Berliners surround an advertising column with a notice of the commander in chief in the Marches, Colonel General von Kessel.

Berliners read the news of the mobilization, 1914

Men and women read on the Moritz Square the recently distributed special edition with the announcement of the general mobilization.

Imperial soldiers with bicycles, 1902

Imperial soldiers of an infantry regiment with bicycles probably reading a kind of a map.

Launch of a biplane from the board of the "Pennsylvania", 1910

The German Hamburg-America Line experimented at the beginning of the 20th century with the launch of postal aircraft on the deck of ships. Here, the American pilot Ely tries to launch with his Curtiss biplane from the runway of the "Pennsylvania".