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Image:
10.00" x 6.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 12.00"
Rural Mailboxes, 1939 Framed Print
by Science Source
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Rural Mailboxes, 1939 framed print by Science Source. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Entitled Mail boxes, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma. Before the introduction of rural free delivery (RFD) by the Post Office in 1896, many rural... more
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Entitled "Mail boxes, Seminole oil field, Oklahoma." Before the introduction of rural free delivery (RFD) by the Post Office in 1896, many rural residents had no access to the mail unless they collected it at a post office located many miles from their homes or hired a private express company to deliver it. For this reason, mailboxes did not become popular in rural America until curbside RFD mail delivery by the Post Office was an established service. In 1923 did the Post Office finally mandate that every household install a mailbox or mail slot in order to receive home delivery of mail. Originally designed only for incoming mail delivery, curbside mailboxes were soon fitted with a semaphore or signal flag mounted on an attached arm to signal the postman of outgoing mail, but also by the postman to inform the recipient that incoming mail had been delivered - a convenience to all during periods of freezing or inclement weather. Curbside mailboxes located on a rural route or road and sit...
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