Post Date:
Apr 4, 2018 5:19 AM
TAG ID:
akgimages249973
(RM)
Credit:
akg-images/Newscom
Format:
4065 x 3470 Black & White JPEG
Photographer:
akg-images
Keywords:
LETTER (CORRESPONDENCE), ENGLAND, HISTORY, WOOD ENGRAVING; XYLOGRAPH; WOODCUT ENGRAVING, LONDON, POSTAL SYSTEM; MAIL; POST (COMMUNICATION), POST OFFICE, WRITER, ESPIONAGE, GRAPHIC ART; GRAPHIC ARTS, SECRET SERVICE, 19TH CENTURY, SECRECY OF CORRESPONDENCE; SECRECY OF LETTERS, COUNTER-ESPIONAGE; COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE, BESPITZELUNG, 2ND MILLENNIUM A.D., PRINTED GRAPHICS, History and Politics
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
Espionage. England: men of the “Secret Office” sifting through suspicious correspondence in a back room of the London main post office (standing, an agent transcribing). Woodcut, unsigned, 1845. Frankfurt am Main, Museum for Communication.