Dead-Letter Office, U.S. Post Office, Washington, D.C., February 1868, artist's impression, detail.

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, January 4, 2018.

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The Dead-Letter Office at Washington. - Sketched by Theodore R. Davis.
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Harper's Weekly Magazine, February 22, 1868, p. 113.

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Cropped and enlarged from the fuller image, also available here.

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