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Description: Female rural letter carrier using a horse-drawn sleigh to make her daily rounds through deep snow. Rural carriers in cold winter climates often kept sleighs for winter use, in addition to their mail wagons. Such expenses were sometimes hardship for rural carriers, who were (and still are) responsible for purchasing their own vehicles.

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Culture: American

Geography: USA

Date: c. 1910

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=203575

Repository: National Postal Museum

Collection: Rural Free Delivery

Accession number: A.2008-48
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Source Female Rural Letter Carrier in Deep Snow
Author Smithsonian Institution from United States
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