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Owen-style lamppost mailbox
Object Details
- Description
- Postmaster David C. Owen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, patented the Owen-style or 'drop bottom' style mailbox in 1911. The hinged bottom of these boxes made it faster and easier for mail carriers to remove pieces of mail. A.O. Smith Company of Milwaukee initially manufactured the boxes.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1911
- Object number
- 1992.2002.908
- Type
- Mail Processing Equipment
- Medium
- metal; paint (olive green)
- Dimensions
- Height x Width x Depth: 32 × 16 × 10 in. (81.28 × 40.64 × 25.4 cm)
- Place
- Wisconsin
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Mail Processing
- Record ID
- npm_1992.2002.908
- Usage
- CC0
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