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"…Rural Mail Route, York County, Maine"

"Postman delivering mail, rural mail route, York county, Maine" (detail)
Dated August 26, 1930, this photograph from York county Maine was taken by George W. Ackerman.

During a nearly 40-year career with the Department of Agriculture, George W. Ackerman (1884-1962) estimated that he took over 50,000 photographs. Ackerman began working as a photographer for the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1910 at a salary of $ 900 a year.

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