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Clerks casing mail for bags, U.S. Post Office

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The subject is an operation of mail handling called "casing." The camera was placed so that two men can be seen demonstrating the method. The demonstrators, with stacks of letters in their hands, place them in one of many apertures built into a cabinet or "case."

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Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 22Aug03; H34972.
Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
Filmed August 10, 1903 in Washington, D.C.

SUBJECTS
Letter mail handling.
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

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awal 0861 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.0861

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