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Description	Description: Workers in main post offices in large cities sorted and processed thousands of pieces of mail by hand every day before the development of mail processing machines. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1890 Collection: U.S. Postal Employees Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194293 Repository: National Postal Museum Accession number: A.2006-41
Date	14 May 2008, 17:24
Source	Postal Clerks Sorting Mail
Author	Smithsonian Institution from United States
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	04:00, 8 August 2023		5,676 × 3,837 (6.74 MB)	FMSky	Cropped 5 % horizontally, 21 % vertically, rotated -0.4° using CropTool with precise mode.
	08:38, 14 September 2016		5,958 × 4,828 (6.21 MB)	Vanished Account Byeznhpyxeuztibuo	Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons

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Credit/Provider	National Postal Museum
Source	Smithsonian Institution
Author	National Postal Museum
Image title	People and the Post, Postal History from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
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Height	4,828 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Compression scheme	Uncompressed
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	600 dpi
Vertical resolution	600 dpi
Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
File change date and time	17:24, 14 May 2008
Color space	sRGB
Image width	5,958 px
Image height	4,828 px
Exif version	2.21
Date and time of digitizing	13:24, 14 May 2008
Date metadata was last modified	14:54, 14 May 2008
Contact information	webmaster@si.edu www.postalmuseum.si.edu www.si.edu photography.si.edu 2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E. Washington, DC, 20002 U.S.A Tel: (202) 633-5555 TTY: (202) 633-9849
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