Talking Mailbox

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Title: Talking Mailbox
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Date: 1956-03-09
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): New St. Louis Post Office [no date recorded on caption card]
Postal service
postal workers
Geographic Area: Saint Louis (Mo.)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Description: "Girls, if you have mail troubles with your male correspondents, here's the answer to all your problems. Marilouise Graymount listens to the response from the first talking mailbox on a mid-Manhattan Street. A microphone and loudspeaker circuit connected to a near-by postal queries addressed to the vocal box, which also serves as a letter receptacle."
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Classification: M112-STLSubjects-Globe-DemocratPostOffice_013
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