Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1994
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waggons, how they were supplied and so on. It is plain from the sources quoted by the author that later 16th-century Transylvania had postal services in the larger towns, not just at the princely court. József Hajdú: The Royal Hungarian Post’s Pavilion at the Millennial Exhibition The great exhibition held in Budapest in 1896 to mark the millennium of the Hungarian Conquest consisted of two main parts, one historical and the other contemporary. The former was sited in the replica of Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest’s Városliget (City Park). The latter was scattered around the park in halls and pavilions. The Post occupied Pavilion 131, with the telegraph and telephones, which it had just absorbed, but separate from the other branches of communications. The hall, placed at right angles to the exhibition ring road, had an area of 800 sq.m, including the wooden sheds for mail coaches, and cost 40,000 forints to build. The post and telegraph office inside opened on January 15, 1896. The photographs exhibited were supplied by the Association of Photographers, which had been formed by eight Budapest photographers. One of these, György Klösz, probably took the pictures of the pavilion, which form valuable items in the Postal Museum’s picture and illustration collection. Mrs Gergely Kovács: Introduction to the Chronology of Postal History The Historical Chronology of Hungary, which appeared in Hungarian in four volumes in 1981, under the senior editorship of Kálmán Bende, covers the period from the earliest times to 1971. Under the rubric „During the Year”, it gives for each year the economic and art-history events not traceable to a specific day, covering the history of agriculture, printing, mining, milling, paper making, water management and medicine. Postal and telecommunications history, however, is only represented by a few prominent events such as the passage of postal legislation. One reason for this may be that the works of postal history by Lajos Hencz and Dr Vilmos Hennyei (1926) lacked concluding chronologies. Moreover the sequel to them, a full history of communications in the 20th century, has yet to be written. To make up for this that we decided to compile a historical chronology of the branch. Many scholars have worked in the museum library in recent decades, contributing many valuable studies to the history of posts and telecommunications. Their periods and subjects, however, have been prescribed, and they have only added a few pieces to the jigsaw of institutional postal history. The Postal Museum is mainly a repository of institutional history, for the Hungarian Post and since 1990 for the Hungarian Telecommunications Company, Hungarian Broadcasting Company and their successors. The main source for such history is the corpus of institutional regulations. The library contains a complete run of the Codex of Postal Regulations since 1867, when these began to appear in Hungarian. The first part of the chronicle of postal history, covering 1867-1900, sets out to use these regulations as a guide to the events of postal development. The regulations in each year, broken down by month and day, are given with their subjects or a fuller account of their contents. Only important terms, or those important to historical 218
