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Summary
Description: President Roosevelt is shown depositing a letter into the side of a Highway Post Office Bus. By the 1930s, a significant decline in railroad passenger traffic had caused a subsequent decline in the use of railway trains. To fill the void, the postal service transferred some en route distribution from trains to highway buses. This is the first Highway Post Office bus and is the collection of the National Postal Museum.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Geography: USA
Date: 1941
Collection: U.S. Highway Post Office
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-78
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194330
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