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Carriers Setting Out on Their Daily Rounds

Description: Dozens of carriers leaving the main city post office building in New York City on June 15, 1936. Among the items carriers had in their mailbags for delivery that day were the first "bonus army" checks. The "bonus army" were World War I veterans who demonstrated in Washington, D.C. in 1932 for more rapid payment of their Service Certificate payments. The veterans received cashable bonds in 1936.

 

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

 

Medium: Black and white photographic print

 

Culture: American

 

Geography: USA

 

Date: 1936

 

Collection: U.S. Postal Employees

 

Repository: National Postal Museum

 

Accession number: A.2008-23

 

Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194375

 

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