Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005
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strating thorough research on the subject, the author builds the article on several sections. They are: the meaning of the pigeon in symbology, the history of pigeons from the pigeons used by pharaohs through 19th century winged news carrying, the start of homing pigeon postal services in Hungary, the role of military homing pigeons on battle fronts, homing pigeon heroes in World War I, the Dickin Award established to decorate life-saver homing pigeons, and the winged heroes of World War II. She concludes the article with tales of homing pigeons serving in wars and emergencies, including the statue commemorating homing pigeons in London and the list of the 32 pigeons that received Dickin Awards between 1943 and 1949. Dr. Erika Garami: Aesthetics and function After a brief review of the Royal Hungarian Postal Savings Bank established in 1886, the author focuses on the Art Nouveau headquarters of the bank designed by Hungarian architect Ödön Lechner and built in 1901, in the light of aesthetics and function. The author tells the story of the building from its beginnings until today - ranging from the initial invitation to submit architectural designs in a competition through the transformation of the building for other purposes when the bank closed. It discusses the initial competition, the exterior of the building, the interior, the functions and equipment, its history up to 1948, and its fate after the bank closed at that time. In the meantime, using beautiful illustrations it presents exterior and interior architectural details that qualify as works of art, along with other interior details that have been lost and exist only in pictures, including the 19th century interiors of the offices. József Hajdú: The Royal Hungarian Post Office’s pole-making facility at Püspökladány As the Royal Hungarian Post Office undertook major network developments, in 1906 it established a facility in Püspökladány to make the poles needed to hold its telegraph and telephone lines. The facility used 120 000 poles, made of oak and various pine trees, each year to build its new lines. The author describes the construction of the facility, its equipment, technology level, operation, amenities and the various operative phases of the work. He notes that postal managers were very proud of the facility and commissioned György Klösz, one of the best known photographers of the period, to prepare a series of photos on it. They then put the images into a decorative portfolio, one copy of which has become a part of the image and illustration collection of the Postal Museum. Katalin Puskás, a fifth year student of restoring museum artefacts and author of the next article, reports on the restoration of the nearly 100-year-old portfolio. Katalin Puskás: Restoring a portfolio of photographs The last assignment of the author as a student who received her degree in restoring museum artefacts in 2005 from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts was to fully restore an artefact and to describe the process in an essay for her degree. The current paper is a 252
