File:Times Square giant mailbox NYWTS.jpg

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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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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.
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