- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of mail carriers, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, 1905 May 23]
- Date of Original:
- 1905
- Subject:
- Letter carriers--Georgia--Calhoun
Postal service--Employees--Georgia--Calhoun
Horses--Georgia--Calhoun
Landscape--Georgia--Calhoun
Municipal services--Georgia--Calhoun - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, Calhoun, 34.50259, -84.95105
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Calhoun, May 23, 1905. Said to be the first rural mail carriers in Gordon County. They pose for a photograph in their horse and buggies Left to right: Cobb McEntyre, Will Buford, J.V. Adams, Henry Fox, John Ray. Note the muddy condition of North Park Avenue. Until rural free delivery service was begun ca. 1900, the only way to get one's mail was to go to the post office in Calhoun
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor435
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor435
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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