Huge postcard sent Minnesota Senator. Washington, D.C., May 2. Said to be the largest postcard ever sent through the mail, this 4x6 message urging passage of a bill to provide sick and annual leave for substitute employees of the Post Office Department, was received today by Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, from the Minneapolis Substitute Committee of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. It took $1.50 in stamps to carry the card. Officers of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks are shown with the Senator shortly after the card was delivered. Left to right: Senator Ernest Lundeen, W.T. Horner, Legislative representative of the Federation; Leo [...]orge, President; W.H. Duke, Secretary; and A.B. [...]ombie, Chairman of the local unit

{
        link: "https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016875559/",
		
		thumbnail:{
            url :"https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/hec/26600/26603_150px.jpg",
            alt:'Image from Prints and Photographs Online Catalog -- The Library of Congress'
        }
        
		
    }

Bibliographic Information

Huge postcard sent Minnesota Senator. Washington, D.C., May 2. Said to be the largest postcard ever sent through the mail, this 4x6 message urging passage of a bill to provide sick and annual leave for substitute employees of the Post Office Department, was received today by Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, from the Minneapolis Substitute Committee of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. It took $1.50 in stamps to carry the card. Officers of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks are shown with the Senator shortly after the card was delivered. Left to right: Senator Ernest Lundeen, W.T. Horner, Legislative representative of the Federation; Leo [...]orge, President; W.H. Duke, Secretary; and A.B. [...]ombie, Chairman of the local unit

Digital ID: (digital file from original negative) hec 26603 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.26603
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-hec-26603 (digital file from original negative)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

back to bibliographic information About This Item download this image JPEG (52kb) | JPEG (123kb) | TIFF (19.2mb) | TIFF (153.3mb)

Huge postcard sent Minnesota Senator. Washington, D.C., May 2. Said to be the largest postcard ever sent through the mail, this 4x6 message urging passage of a bill to provide sick and annual leave for substitute employees of the Post Office Department, was received today by Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, from the Minneapolis Substitute Committee of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. It took $1.50 in stamps to carry the card. Officers of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks are shown with the Senator shortly after the card was delivered. Left to right: Senator Ernest Lundeen, W.T. Horner, Legislative representative of the Federation; Leo [...]orge, President; W.H. Duke, Secretary; and A.B. [...]ombie, Chairman of the local unit

Library of Congress

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

Connect with the Library

Find Us On

Subscribe & Comment

Download & Play

Questions