The Post Office by Thomas Rowlandson (1809)

Colored print of a busy post office interior with clerks sorting letters at desks and a long green table in front.

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This hand-colored aquatint titled The Post Office, by Thomas Rowlandson, dated 1809, shows a large interior where clerks in red coats work at tall sloped desks lined with pigeonholes. In the foreground, men in dark coats sort stacks of letters on a green-covered table beneath tall windows and a skylight.

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1809

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain