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Handheld door knocker for letter carriers (wood)

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SMT1217089
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Handheld door knocker for letter carriers (wood)
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American School / American
Location
National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
Medium
wood
Image description

Through the first 50 years of service, letter carriers had to wait for someone to answer the door. If no one was home, they kept the mail and tried again the next day. Some letter carriers chose to use wooden, dumb-bell shaped door knockers on their daily rounds. Convenient, light-weight, and easy to grasp, the knocker saved wear and tear on hands and sounded a loud crack to announce the carrier’s arrival. By the 1920s the Post Office Department required city patrons to add mailboxes to their homes.

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© Smithsonian Institution / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
wood (material) / material / handheld / object / letter carrier / postmen / postal / national postal museum / objects / knockers / worn / wooden / mail / post office / smithsonian institution / letter carriers / post / postman
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Largest available format 2202 × 1962 px 1 MB
Dimension [pixels] Dimension in 300dpi [mm] File size [MB]
Large 2202 × 1962 px 186 × 166 mm 859 KB
Medium 1024 × 913 px 87 × 77 mm 497 KB

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