Saturday, October 1, 2016

Found at the Archives

We have learned many things from our work at the National Archives.  One thing our archivist taught us is that the hand symbol below is called a manicule.  Here are some that I have found recently.  Note the address on the bottom one.  Hard to believe that mail could be delivered with just a name, city and state; no house number, street, or zip code for rural Nebraska.

 
 

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