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Mail Delivery by Stagecoach

Mud wagons and more elegant, decorated Concord coaches carried passengers and mail throughout the country during the 19th century. The ride in these hard wagons over rough roads and dusty deserts or in frigid snowy weather tested the endurance of even the most seasoned traveler.

 

Exhibit at the National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Uploaded on October 1, 2013
Taken on September 28, 2013