Photograph of postal clerks sorting mail

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Object Details

Description

Room filled with postal clerks and letter carriers sorting and processing mail. Workers in main post offices in large cities processed thousands of pieces of mail by hand every day before the development of mail processing machines.

Photographer: Unknown

Credit line

National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown

Date

c. 1890

Object number

A.2006-41

Type

Photographs

Medium

paper; photo-emulsion

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm878cbcdad-93e0-46eb-9d3b-9a8d52258397

Record ID

npm_A.2006-41