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Photograph of postcard of rural carrier's Christmas
Object Details
- Description
- Christmas postcard from Pittstown, New Jersey Rural Free Delivery letter carrier John S. MacIlroy to William Taylor dated December 21, 1915. The back of the postcard has a printed five stanza poem titled "If" that includes the verse, "when packages due don't come on time / And those who are sending don't raise their sign / it sure would save anxiety / if I knew you and you knew me." Many rural letter carriers left holiday postcards for their patrons, though few went as far as Mr. MacIlroy in creating specialty cards such as this one. Fortunately for MacIlroy, he remembered to place a stamp on this postcard. Carriers who simply placed postcards in their patrons' mailboxes without stamps were subject to disciplinary measures for misuse of the mailbox.
- Creator/Photographer: Unidentified creator
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Creator: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1915
- Object number
- A.2008-47
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- unknown
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Record ID
- npm_A.2008-47
- Usage
- Not determined
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