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Mail carrier, rural Pennsylvania, circa 1900.
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Horse and mail wagon are parked by rural mailbox as the mailman poses with satchel on shoulder and letter in hand

Credit: Courtesy of Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, Pennsburg, Pa.

Titled Bringing the news to the farm, this is a rare photograph of early rural free delivery in Pennsylvania.

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