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Mail Train
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View across railroad tracks of cart loads of mail sacks on the platform, awaiting the arrival of the next train. The four men standing on the left have been identified as B. Black, L. Frazier, Wm. McLaughlin, and G. Schaad.
April 14, 1948
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WHi 24341
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