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Experimental notebook, 1896 - 1897
Early telephone directory
Post Office Telephones advertising material, 1930s
Phonecards, 1990s
National Telephone Company Midland province, staff dinner programme
Liverpool scrapbook
Model vans
Photograph albums, 1911 and 1932
London telephone directories
Bell's Telephone, edited by Kate Field
Victorian marketing
Shareholder register
This document unfolds to reveal a subscription contract for the shareholders of the British Telegraph Company. Signed in 1853, the contract includes the list of shareholders and the capital they had put into the company. The company merged with a competitor in 1857 to become the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, which was subsequently taken over by the Post Office when the inland telegraph service was, to all intents and purposes, nationalised.