1903 Streetcars Seen in Background of Mail Pickup

The subject is the movement of mail by the U.S. postal service in Washington, DC in 1903. As the film begins, two types of mail boxes on a pole on the corner of a street can be seen. In the background, away from the camera position, are people going by on foot, as well as horse-drawn and electric streetcar transportation. Note open vestibules on streetcars. At the end of the film, a man wearing the uniform of a postal worker is seen approaching the mail boxes. He unlocks the boxes and removes the mail from both the small and large boxes. Library of Congress.

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Education

Tags:

• ATU
• 689
• transit
• union
• rail
• bus
• train
• subway
• streetcar
• worker
• postal
• mail
• delivery
• Washington
• DC

[matrox]

Those women look like death with those long gruesom black dresses.