MAKE A MEME View Large Image The fancifully decorated horse-drawn wagon is marked "Rural Route No. 3, Osseo, Minn[esota]." Rural free delivery carriers did not more than just transport mail. This unidentified carrier would have offered a functioning ...
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Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution horse and carriage horseandcarriage photo-emulsion photoemulsion mail carriage mailcarriage horse drawn carriage horsedrawncarriage post office on wheels postofficeonwheels 1905 photograph 1905photograph rural route no. 3 ruralrouteno3 osseo minn osseominn carriage western horse olden times oldentimes national postal museum nationalpostalmuseum monochrome Date: c. 1905 Object number: A.2009-52 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: The fancifully decorated horse-drawn wagon is marked "Rural Route No. 3, Osseo, Minn[esota]." Rural free delivery carriers did not more than just transport mail. This unidentified carrier would have offered a functioning post office on wheels to customers. The carrier would have brought along stamps and stamped envelopes, money orders and other postal products for sale along the route. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Place: United States of America      Minnesota See more items in: National Postal Museum Collection Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207616 Repository:National Postal Museum View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Date: c. 1905 Object number: A.2009-52 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: The fancifully decorated horse-drawn wagon is marked "Rural Route No. 3, Osseo, Minn[esota]." Rural free delivery carriers did not more than just transport mail. This unidentified carrier would have offered a functioning post office on wheels to customers. The carrier would have brought along stamps and stamped envelopes, money orders and other postal products for sale along the route. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Place: United States of America      Minnesota See more items in: National Postal Museum Collection Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207616 Repository:National Postal Museum View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
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