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July 1940. "Rural mailman who has brought the mail to the crossroads transfers letters and packages to another postman's saddlebags. This rider takes the mail farther up the side road and creek beds where no wagon or car can go. In the mountain section near Morehead, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
This image is such a fantastic look at one second of Life that surely has changed many times in this exact spot on our planet. Such an amazing capture of that moment. I feel like I just crept up in a Tesla to see this right in front of me.
nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Neither how gravelly or dusty the road or how biological the vehicle.
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