Sorting the mail on the move, U.S. Post Office railroad car, September 1864, artist's impression, detail

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Sorting the mail on the move, U.S. Post Office railroad car, September 1864, artist's impression, detail
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Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, January 21, 2015.
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Image type
engraving
Original caption
The new United States Railway Post Office - View of the Interior, showing the sorting of letters on the way.
Source citation
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 8, 1864, p. 33.
Source note
Cropped from the full image, also available here. 
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