New York City Bike Messenger
Elizabeth Alice Austen
Postal Telegraph Company Summer Uniform
Le Petit Bleu de Paris
Alfred Choubrac
Messengers at the main office, Postal Telegraph Co., 283 Broadway, turning in their uniforms at close of the day. The boys are carefully supervised and clothes are well kept.
Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers.
Messenger boys in conversation at Union Square, N.Y. Location: New York, New York
Unknown
Messenger boys in no hurry. Union Square, N.Y.
Postal Telegraph Messengers, Indianapolis, (Indiana has no age limit for messengers.)
Preston DeCosta, fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger Service.
Isaac Boyett, "I'm de whole show." The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service,
Scouts, Messengers, Dogs
Brett Butterworth
Woman with messenger
Johannes Vermeer
Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport.
Edward Williams, 328 E Street, South Boston. 14 years old. Messenger for William H. Mitchell & Sons Co.
Invitations were delivered by 12 messengers.
Walter Crane
Danville Virginia Messengers.
Two Messengers in DC on their bikes.
Postal Telegraph Messengers.
Jewish Messenger in Manhattan work for Postal Telegraph
A typical group of Postal Messengers in Norfolk, Va.
Jewish New York Boy Messengers for Western Union
McPherson crosses the Big Black at Messenger's Ferry
Frank Leslie
Young messenger making an office call
Harvey Buchanan, Irish boy messenger.
Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger
A typical group of messengers at Postal Telegraph Company's main office, 253 Broadway.
Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line
Whisper Magazine; "Through the Keyhole"
Peter Driben
Heads Will Roll
Allen Anderson
Homing Pigeons
WWI Signal Corps photograph Collection
Winged Pages deliver invitations #1
Walter Crane
A.D.T. Boy, 13 years old. One and one-half years at it. Works from noon to 10:30 P.M. Said he "carries notes, etc."
Winged Pages deliver invitations
Walter Crane
Der von Wildonie
Codex Manesse
Herr Leuthold von Seven
Codex Manesse
News of the Death of King Pepin
Unkown
Belgian Pigeons
Library of Congress
Musical Party
Gabriel Metsu
German Dog Hospital
National Archive/Official German photograph of WWI
Receipt of a Dogs Message
National Library of Scotland
Slices of Life in Japan
Unknown
Each Day was easily Found except those that do not fall on the same date each year.
Walter Crane
Cycles Peugeot Valentigney – Doubs
Ernest John Alexis Vulliemin
Cycles Peugeot
Ernest Vulliemin
Announcement of Doomsday
Walter Crane
George Christopher, Postal Tel. #7, 14 years old.
Take This Message - 1813 - 1821 - Commander's Dispatch
Henry Alexander Ogden
Master of St. Barbara Legend
Unknown
A Postal Telegraph boy learning to send messages during spare moments.
Electric Wire Dog
National Archive/Official German photograph of WWI
Howard Williams, thirteen year old delivery boy for Shreveport, La. Drug Company.
Messenger Line and Cannon Drill, Salisbury, Massachusetts
Unknown
African Americans as Messenger on Wall Street; patron deals in government bonds
Frank Leslie
Roy, the Western Union Telegraph Messenger
Unknown
The Fatal Messenger
John Drew
Murders' Messenger
Hugh Joseph Ward
A small messenger with a heavy load.
Bundle Boys carry packages as messengers outside of Illinois Central Railroad Station