Wagons loading mail, U.S Post Office

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2010 · Education

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SUMMARY
The photographer placed his camera to encompass as much of the loading ramp of a mail delivery building as possible. As the film begins, several horse-drawn postal transportation vehicles are backed up to the ramp. At the end of the film, a postal delivery wagon pulled by one horse enters the scene and is backed against the ramp.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 22Aug03; H34995.
Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
Filmed July 29, 1903 in Washington, D.C.

SUBJECTS
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
awal 0874 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.0874

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