July 10th, 2008
During World War II, the War Department worked with the Post Office to find an effective, fast and low cost way to allow soldiers deployed in the Pacific and European theaters to send letters home.
V-Mail or Photomail used single sized stationery which was then photographed onto 16 mm microfilm. Hundreds of letters could be […]
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January 31st, 2007
These days, with TV, radio, instant messaging, e-mails and overnight delivery, we take for granted that getting news and information was once a very slow and unreliable process. But in America’s colonial days, things were very different. Letters and news could take weeks or months to reach the colonies or travel from settlement to settlement.
The first private […]
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