RFD Jubilee celebrated in 1946

Photograph

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

RFD Jubilee celebrated in 1946

Entry/Object ID

IMG1359 ve2

Description

Observance of the 50th Anniversary of Rural Free Delivery mail service. Photograph taken in front of the United States Post Office in Charles Town on October 1, 1946. Pictured left to right: John J. Eby [rural carrier], unidentified, Thornton Tayloe Perry [Postmaster, Charles Town], Congressman Jennings Randolph, Melvin T. Strider [one of the first rural carriers in 1896], Estelle Gibson [sister of Harry C. Gibson, one of the first rural carriers in 1896], Jesse M. Donaldson, William H. Wilson [grandson of William Lyne Wilson], and B. A. Winquest [President of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association]. From the Edwin A. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Collection. (IMG1359-2)