These images represent a fraction of the Postal Service’s collection of more than 4,000 historic photographs, and may be protected by copyright. Please see our Rights and Permissions Program for rules governing usage. A number of the featured images were reproduced from photographs in the collections of the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration; sources of all images are included in captions.

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Related Links
Photographic Archives, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, Library of Congress.