Postoffice [sic] Christmas rush in Chicago – Vintage Wall Art
![Postoffice [sic] Christmas rush in Chicago, 1929 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/96/9655a932316e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Postoffice [sic] Christmas rush in Chicago, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Postoffice [sic] Christmas rush in Chicago
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Few holiday scenes from the late 1920s show the season's strain as plainly as this view of the Chicago post office during its Christmas rush. December was the busiest stretch of the year for the mails, when greeting cards and gift parcels swelled the volume that clerks and carriers had to sort, route and deliver on tight schedules. The picture dates to 1929, a year when gift-giving was still running high; that October the stock market crashed. The title puts the mail itself at the center, a reminder of how much of the season's goodwill passed through public post offices.
| Created / published | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | No. C. H. 504315 S"." |
| Subjects | Postal service--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. Postal service employees--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,240 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-196191 |
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