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Rural Wagon Delivering Mail

LOC Title
Rural wagon delivering mail, U.S.P.O.
LOC Summary
The subject is the delivery of the U.S. mail in a rural area. The camera was positioned in full sight of a standard rural free delivery post box located in front of a well-kept house and garden. A small boy and girl walk past the camera position in front of the mail box. At that moment, a standard rural horse-drawn postal delivery wagon comes into sight. The postman places the mail in the box, and the wagon continues on its way.
LOC Contributor Names
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
LOC Created/Published
United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1903.
LOC Standardized Date
1903
LOC Subject Headings
- Rural free delivery
- Postal service
LOC Notes
- H34981 U.S Copyright Office
- Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 22Aug03; H34981.
- Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
- Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 282.
- Duration: 0:46 at 16 fps.
- Filmed August 10, 1903 in Westminister, MD.
- Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.
- Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- Received: 2/2000 from LC lab; ref prints and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.
EEC Creators
EEC Source Year
1903
EEC Format
EEC Type of Source
EEC Internal Notes
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