Here’s a cool old photo from Christmas 1919. It appears to be a makeshift post office to handle overflow mail during the holiday season.
Christmas 1919: Post Office A La Cart in Washington, DC
- Published January 16, 2014
Check out this amazing old photo of a makeshift post office in Washington, DC, set up to handle overflow mail during the Christmas season in 1919. Deck the truck with boughs of holly!
![John Henry Balch, Corpsman, U.S. Navy, visiting Washington, D.C., in June 1917 [at Columbus statue at Union Station], while awaiting shipment overseas. The Marine on the right is not identified. [Portraits.] [Scene, World War I, World War 1.] John Henry Balch. 06/1917; NH 80571; Courtesy of Commander J.H. Balch, U.S. Navy (retired), 1974.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/07/14511329064_2b6720dd91_o-768x1210.jpg)
