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Actresses Millette Alexander and Louise King, and nightclub entertainer Ted Lewis, stand outside a giant mailbox stamp selling booth in Times Square, New York City, while Assistant Postmaster Aquiline F. Weierich dispenses stamps from inside booth / World Telegram & Sun photo by Phyllis Twachtman.

The mailbox includes an injunction to use Zone numbers (the precursor to Zip codes in large cities).

The famous Camel puffing billboard (1942 to 1966) is in the background.
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Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c20986
Author New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Twachtman, Phyllis, photographer.
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Public domain This work is from the New York World-Telegram and Sun collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
This photograph is a work for hire created prior to 1968 by a staff photographer at New York World-Telegram & Sun. It is part of a collection donated to the Library of Congress and per the instrument of gift it is in the public domain.

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