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Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), November 18, 1845
Pittsburgh
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PA
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1854
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Pittsburgh Daily Gazette, June 12, 1854
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Reading
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PA
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1889
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Reading Times, February 21, 1888
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Providence
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RI
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1857
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Architectural Drawings for a Government Building, 1855, P&P, LOC
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Charleston
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SC
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1896
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The Weekly News and Courier (Charleston, SC), May 20, 1896
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Sumter
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SC
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1889
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The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, SC), October 30, 1889
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Memphis
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TN
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1870
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Public Ledger (Memphis, TN), February 22, 1870
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Nashville
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TN
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1874
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The Tennessean (Nashville, TN), April 2, 1874
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Galveston
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TX
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1873
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Galveston Daily News, April 25, 1873
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San Antonio
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TX
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1882
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The San Antonio Light, January 18, 1882
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Salt Lake City
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UT
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1891
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The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), October 16, 1891
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Burlington
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VT
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1857
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Architectural Drawings for a Government Building, 1855, P&P, LOC
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Rutland
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VT
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1859
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Architectural Drawings for a Government Building, 1856, P&P, LOC
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Windsor
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VT
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1858
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Architectural Drawings for a Government Building, 1856, P&P, LOC
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Petersburg
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VA
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1858
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Architectural Drawings for a Government Building, 1855, P&P, LOC
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Richmond
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VA
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1858
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Richard K. Perkins, A Brief History of the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. United States Courthouse, 1858–2012 (Richmond, VA: Office of the Circuit Executive, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2012), at www.ca4.uscourts.gov/docs/pdfs/BriefHistoryofPowellCourthouse.pdf (accessed January 7, 2016)
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Milwaukee
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WI
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1855
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Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, July 2, 1855
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Oshkosh
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WI
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1875
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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, December 14, 1875
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Wheeling
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WV
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1854
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Wheeling (VA) Daily Intelligencer, April 8, 1854
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Endnotes:
1. Richard R. John, Spreading the News: the American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 162.
2. Samuel Gridley Howe, “Postal Reform,” Massachusetts Quarterly Review, 2, 1848, 99. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org (accessed December 15, 2015).
3. The Treasury Department was responsible for the construction of federal buildings until 1939, when the responsibility transferred to the Federal Works Agency. Less than 10 percent of Post Offices were located in federal buildings; most were in privately-owned buildings.
4. Anthony Trollope, North America (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1863), 261–262.
5. Ibid, 262.
6. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, July 29, 1888. Gale 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, http://infotrac.galegroup.com (accessed January 14, 2016).
7. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, January 1867, 84. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org (accessed December 15, 2015).
8. Harper’s Magazine, October, 1871. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org (accessed December 18, 2015).
9. Junius Browne, The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York (Hartford, CT, American Publishing Company, 1869), 423. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org (accessed December 16, 2015).
0. George Ellington, Women of New York (New York, NY: New York Book Company, 1870), 477. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://www.hathitrust.org (accessed December 14, 2015).
1. The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), December 28, 1887. Gale 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, http://infotrac.galegroup.com (accessed January 14, 2016).
2. Pittsburgh (PA) Daily Post, December 17, 1887. https://www.newspapers.com (accessed January 27, 2016).
3. Letter quoted in The Evening World (New York, NY), December 21, 1887. Library of Congress: Chronicling America, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov (accessed January 6, 2016).
4. “The History of a Letter,” Hutchings California Magazine, January, 1858. Dan Anderson, Yosemite Online Library, http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library (accessed December 10, 2015).
5. California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 32, Number 20, December 9, 1869, 156. University of California, Riverside: California Digital Newspaper Collection, http://cdnc.ucr.edu (accessed January 21, 2016).
6. Frank Leslie's Weekly (New York, NY), June 19, 1858. Accessible Archives, http://www.accessible-archives.com (accessed January 14, 2016).
7. The Wheeling (WV) daily intelligencer, December 7, 1865. Library of Congress: Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov (accessed January 6, 2016).
18. Residents of 49 large cities began receiving free home delivery of mail in 1863; by 1880, 104 cities were served, and by 1900, the service had spread to 796 cities.
19. U.S. Post Office Department, Postal Laws and Regulations, 1879, 99.
20. Sacramento Daily Union, November 18, 1879, California Digital Newspaper Collection http://cdnc.ucr.edu (accessed January 22, 2016).
21. U.S. Post Office Department, Postal Laws and Regulations, 1887, 260.
22. U.S. Post Office Department, Postal Bulletin 9885, July 27, 1912.
23. Atlanta Georgian and News, October 23, 1911, Digital Library of Georgia http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu (accessed March 24, 2016).
24. Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2010), 152.
25. David M. Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 75–76.
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