Throwing Mail Into Bags
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Object Details
- Creator
- National Postal Museum
- Views
- 4,278
- Video Title
- Throwing Mail Into Bags
- Description
- Postal workers sorted some mail by tossing it into bags. This short, 57-second, silent video was produced by the "American Mutoscope & Biograph Company" in 1903. Notice the stage backdrop painted to resemble the interior of a post office. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/systems-at-work/resources
- Video Duration
- 57 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Smithsonian "postal museum" "National Postal Museum" stamps philately post office history
- Uploaded
- 2011-11-02T20:22:26.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- SmithsonianNPM
- National Postal Museum
- YouTube Channel
- SmithsonianNPM
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Postal service;Letter mail handling;Stamp collecting
- Record ID
- yt_1-fKpbrbTi8
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