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Adams County, North Dakota. George P. Moeller looking through a mail order catalog

Adams County, North Dakota. George P. Moeller looking through a mail o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his wife Maclovia are thinking of buying new harnesses; it will cost sixty dollars, so they will probably get along with what they have

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arlington, Virginia. Answering mail in a room at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work for the U.S. government for the duration of the war. Most of these girls carry on a voluminous correspondence. This girl averages twenty letters a week

Arlington, Virginia. Answering mail in a room at Idaho Hall, Arlington...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gibson, Indiana. Lester Gale (left), signal maintainer on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad, and Charles Cornetta, railroad mail clerk, having dinner in the cafeteria of the railroad YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association)

Gibson, Indiana. Lester Gale (left), signal maintainer on the Indiana ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Express, mail and baggage are handled below street level. There are over two miles of underground for trucks and taxicabs at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. Express, mail and baggage are handled below street ...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. A mail-unloader in operation at Union Station. It extends a moving belt into the car onto which the mail bags are dumped, carried out of the car over to these open trap doors in the railroad platform. Under the trap doors is another conveyor belt running the length of the platform which carries the bags to the post office

Chicago, Illinois. A mail-unloader in operation at Union Station. It e...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American postmen loading bags of mail into U.S. mail trucks]

[African American postmen loading bags of mail into U.S. mail trucks]

Contact sheet folder caption: "Postal service story: WKL, 3-1-66" U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 15479, frame 23.

[African American postal employees sorting mail on table]

[African American postal employees sorting mail on table]

Contact sheet folder caption: "Postal service story: WKL, 3/1/66" U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 15485, frame 8.

Mural "Dangers of the Mail," by Frank Albert Mechau, Jr. at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Dangers of the Mail," by Frank Albert Mechau, Jr. at the Ariel ...

Date: 1937; dimensions: 7' x 13'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs ... More

Cincinnati Union Terminal, Mail Handling Building, Bounded by McLean, Sherman & Liberty Avenues & Conrail Railroad, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Cincinnati Union Terminal, Mail Handling Building, Bounded by McLean, ...

Significance: This building is part of a grouping of structures erected as part of one of the most monumental complexes in America in the Art Deco style. The passenger terminal, HABS OH-75, is the centerpiece o... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, 3625 Truman Road, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, 3625 Truman Road, Kansas Cit...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Ozark children getting mail from RFD box, Missouri

Ozark children getting mail from RFD box, Missouri

Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grenshaw Streets, Kedzie Avenue & Independence Boulevard, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grens...

Significance: The Merchandise Building was one of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons and Fellows, with add... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

The latest method, home instruction by mail, dancing courses

The latest method, home instruction by mail, dancing courses

arranged and edited by Charles J. Frank ... (statement of responsibility) LC has v. 1-3 only. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) v. 1. T... More

The Railway mail service - methods of distributing and delivering the mail / from sketches by a staff artist.

The Railway mail service - methods of distributing and delivering the ...

Composite of four scenes: 1. Before the start: delivering the mail and daily papers at the Pennsylvania Railway depot, at Jersey City. 2. Interior of car: distributing mail. 3. The catch. 4. "Ready to throw off... More

Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan.

Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan.

One of eight large-scale pictorial maps of midwestern states showing routes and post offices of the Railway Mail Service. Designed by Chicago railway mail clerk Frank H. Galbraith to help employees of the Railw... More

Mail train approaching Gasset's [i.e. Gassetts], Vt.

Mail train approaching Gasset's [i.e. Gassetts], Vt.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Vermont, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letters from America. Mail arrival at a cosy home over-sea. County Monaghan

Letters from America. Mail arrival at a cosy home over-sea. County Mon...

Two women reading letter in front of cottage. Stereo copyrighted by American Stereoscopic Co. No. 10. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Postal Service; Geogr.

[Throwing the line, U.S. mail service]

[Throwing the line, U.S. mail service]

Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Men working in a railway mail train]

[Men working in a railway mail train]

National Photo Company Collection. No. 29241. Public domain image of Swedish railroads works, train yard, workshop, tracks, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Army post mail carriers - Public domain portrait photograph

U.S. Army post mail carriers - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of two boys on a porch. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Mail, interior of R.R. car

U.S. Mail, interior of R.R. car

Public domain reproduction of still life painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

LIBERTY LOANS. MAIL BAGS OF BONDS

LIBERTY LOANS. MAIL BAGS OF BONDS

A group of people standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. LOADING

AIR MAIL. INAUGURATION OF SERVICE, POLO FIELD. LOADING

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Library of Congress officials transferring page 3 of the United States Constitution from the State Department to the Library of Congress in the Library's Model-T Ford mail wagon]

[Library of Congress officials transferring page 3 of the United State...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Title devised by Library staff, based on Library of Congress Encyclopedia, p. 217-219, and National Archives and Records Administration.

Postmaster General Work and his assistants inspecting the Radio equipment recently installed on aero mail planes

Postmaster General Work and his assistants inspecting the Radio equipm...

Five men with the equipment in front of airplane. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., 1922, v. 4, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National ... More

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new experimental radio apparatus with which the Dept. hopes soon to make possible night flying. The little lead fish at the bottom of the picture is let out while flying and carries with it a long copper wire which serves as the antennae. A sound-proof covering over the pilot's set and transmitter is necessary and the electricity is manufactured by a generator run by a free fan. Experiments conducted at Bolling Field, Wash. Aug. 2, 1922

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new exper...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. Coolidge votes by mail, [10/30/24]

Mrs. Coolidge votes by mail, [10/30/24]

A black and white photo of a man and a little girl sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

P.M. General New mailing personal mail, 12/1/25

P.M. General New mailing personal mail, 12/1/25

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fan mail has become so heavy that the Federal Radio Commission has seeked Congress for special legislation to allow the destruction of accumulated letters

Fan mail has become so heavy that the Federal Radio Commission has see...

Two men with piles of mail.

[Aviator standing with plane "Cleveland Pittsburgh Air Mail ..."

[Aviator standing with plane "Cleveland Pittsburgh Air Mail ..."

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Women with mail] - Public domain scan / photograph

[Women with mail] - Public domain scan / photograph

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

AIR MAIL PILOT GETS HIGHEST MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. MAL FREEBURG, COMMERCIAL AIRMAIL PILOT, RECEIVES THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FROM THE PRESIDENT, AND THUS BECOMES THE FIRST AIR MAIL PILOT EVER TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD FOR ACTS OF BRAVERY DURING PEACE TIMES. FROM THE LEFT: DAVID L. BEHNCKE, PRESIDENT OF THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION; W.W. HOWES, 2ND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL IN CHARGE OF AIRMAIL; JESSE DONALDSON, DEPUTY TO MR. HOWE; REP. CLYDE KELLEY OF PA; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; PILOT FREEBURG RECEIVING MEDAL AND STEPHEN A. CESLER, SUPERINTENDENT OF AIR MAILS

AIR MAIL PILOT GETS HIGHEST MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. MAL FREEBURG, COMMERCIA...

A group of men standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MEDALS FOR BRAVE FLIERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AWARDS AIR MAIL FLYER'S MEDALS OF HONOR TO PILOTS PERFORMING ACTS OF HEROISM. FROM THE LEFT: ROY H. WARNER, UNITED AIR LINES; GROVER TYLER, UNITED AIR LINES; LEWIS TURNER, AMERICAN AIRWAYS; WALLINGTON P. McFAIL, AMERICAN AIRWAYS; WALLINGTON P. McFAIL, AMERICAN AIRWAYS; GORDON S. DARNELL, U.S. AIRLINES; JAMES CARMICHAEL, JR, CENTRAL AIR LINES; EDWARD A. BELLAND, TWA; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; AND PMG JAMES A FARLEY

MEDALS FOR BRAVE FLIERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AWARDS AIR MAIL FLYER'S M...

A group of men standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mural "Unloading the Mail," by Reginald Marsh at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Unloading the Mail," by Reginald Marsh at the Ariel Rios Federa...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 6'7" x 12' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... More

Washington, D.C. Handling mail at the main post office

Washington, D.C. Handling mail at the main post office

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FIRST LADY INAUGURATES NATIONAL AIR MAIL WEEK. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 15. NATIONAL AIRMAIL WEEK MARKING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AIRMAIL SERVICE, WAS INAUGURATED IN THE CAPITAL TODAY WHEN MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AIRMAILED THE FIRST LETTER FROM THE TEMPORARY POSTOFFICE INSTALLED IN THE HUGE TRANSPORT PLANE IN FRONT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUILDING. MRS. ROOSEVELT IS PICTURED HANDING HER LETTER TO VINCENT C. BURKE, D.C. POSTMASTER. ON THE RIGHT IS HARLEE BRANCH, ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL IN CHARGE OF AIRMAIL

FIRST LADY INAUGURATES NATIONAL AIR MAIL WEEK. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 15...

A group of people standing around a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tenant farmer looking through the mail. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma. See general caption 20

Tenant farmer looking through the mail. Near Muskogee, Oklahoma. See g...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. mail truck used in snowy mountain sections of Nevada County, California

U.S. mail truck used in snowy mountain sections of Nevada County, Cali...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Montrose, Colorado, is junction point for standard gauge and narrow gauge railroads and bus lines. Papers and mail are being loaded into bus for transporting to towns along the route

Montrose, Colorado, is junction point for standard gauge and narrow ga...

Public domain photograph of 1930s cars, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man on a horse. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse. Pie Town, New Mexico. Far...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. The correspondence of the workers is heavy, and those who do not get mail are always "hoping" and always "looking"

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

President Roosevelt and T.V. Soong, foreign minister of China, purchases from Postmaster General Walker some of the new five-cent stamps symbolizing freedom and democracy in both the United States and China. The stamp carries pictures of President Lincoln and Sun Yat-Sen, first president of China, and a Chinese inscription

President Roosevelt and T.V. Soong, foreign minister of China, purchas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Morton County, North Dakota. Farm boy going after mail

Morton County, North Dakota. Farm boy going after mail

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The Australian Legation. The mail room

Washington, D.C. The Australian Legation. The mail room

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. The tremendous traffic of mail, railway express and baggage is all handled in the Union Station's sub-cellars. There are over two miles of road for trucks and cabs beneath the station

Chicago, Illinois. The tremendous traffic of mail, railway express and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. The Union Station employs many women in the mail department to handle parcel post packages

Chicago, Illinois. The Union Station employs many women in the mail de...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco sign, and other advertisements, on a wall in downtown Grafton, West Virginia

An old Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco sign, and other advertisements, on a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in front of Gilbert S. Hastings's general store and post office reading his mail, which includes a postcard saying that his last year's hired man "won't be around for haying this year on account of he's in Californi' in the Navy"

West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in fr...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Vermont postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grenshaw Streets, Kedzie Avenue & Independence Boulevard, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grens...

Significance: The Merchandise Building was one of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons and Fellows, with add... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grenshaw Streets, Kedzie Avenue & Independence Boulevard, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grens...

Significance: The Merchandise Building was one of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons and Fellows, with add... More

William H. Crane. The Pacific mail by Paul M. Potter.

William H. Crane. The Pacific mail by Paul M. Potter.

Caption: Arrest me! Take me away! Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...

Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Building, 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Mail, Baggage, & Express Buildin...

Significance: The utilitarian Mail, Baggage, and Express Building served as part of the overall services associated with the architecturally and historically significant Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. S... More

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & Bell N.Y. engines by Allaire Works N.Y.

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6838

["Grosser Kurfurst," forward passage, North German Lloyd, Royal Mail Steamers

["Grosser Kurfurst," forward passage, North German Lloyd, Royal Mail S...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "17214". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Nebraska.

Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Nebraska.

One of eight large-scale pictorial maps of midwestern states showing routes and post offices of the Railway Mail Service. Designed by Chicago railway mail clerk Frank H. Galbraith to help employees of the Railw... More

Mail chute from Lusitania - Public domain ocean liner image

Mail chute from Lusitania - Public domain ocean liner image

Public domain photograph of ocean liner, ship, transatlantic travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wagons loading mail, U.S.P.O. /

Wagons loading mail, U.S.P.O. /

"The photographer placed his camera to encompass as much of the loading ramp of a mail delivery building as possible. As the film begins, several horse-drawn postal transportation vehicles are backed up to the ... More

"Chuting" mail -- Grand Central

"Chuting" mail -- Grand Central

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CAMPBELL, MRS. PARMLEE. WOMAN MAIL CARRIER. DELIVERING MAIL TO MRS. NELLIE McGRATH

CAMPBELL, MRS. PARMLEE. WOMAN MAIL CARRIER. DELIVERING MAIL TO MRS. NE...

An old photo of a woman holding a baby. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. AUTO MAIL TRANSPORT, 'U.S. SERVICE COURIER': C.H. CLAUDY AND REP. RAKER OF CALIFORNIA; MRS. ROE FULKERSON AT WHEEL

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. AUTO MAIL TRANSPORT, 'U.S. SERVICE COURIER': C...

Two men standing next to an old car. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. mail truck, George Grantham Bain Collection

U.S. mail truck, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

[U.S Mail truck, 12/1/21] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[U.S Mail truck, 12/1/21] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S. Mail trucks, Washington, D.C.]

[U.S. Mail trucks, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Mail, Ford truck - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

U.S. Mail, Ford truck - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S. Mail] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[U.S. Mail] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mail boxes and irrigation gates. Imperial Valley, California

Mail boxes and irrigation gates. Imperial Valley, California

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sorting mail on board a mail car

Sorting mail on board a mail car

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Sorting mail at the main post office

Washington, D.C. Sorting mail at the main post office

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Mail chute at the main post office

Washington, D.C. Mail chute at the main post office

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph La Blanc at the desk in his office, reading morning mail, near Crowley, Louisiana

Joseph La Blanc at the desk in his office, reading morning mail, near ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a city, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a city, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograp...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Aaron Copland sorting his mail

Aaron Copland sorting his mail

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Waiting at a crossroads in Ledyard, Connecticut for the mail carrier. Little boy is a member of the Crouch family

Waiting at a crossroads in Ledyard, Connecticut for the mail carrier. ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Looking down on the miners' monument at Bisbee, Arizona. Inhabitants brag that this is the largest town which has no house-to-house mail delivery, the post office department considering the streets too precipitous to make delivery

Looking down on the miners' monument at Bisbee, Arizona. Inhabitants b...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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