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Painting of people reading letters in a crowded arched post office interior with pigeonhole boxes and sunlight from a window.

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In the Pittsburgh Post Office, David Gilmour Blythe (1859), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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In the Pittsburgh Post Office by David Gilmour Blythe, dated 1859, shows a crowded interior with arched stone architecture and a bank of pigeonholed letter boxes. Men and women in period dress read and open letters, while a sign reading Gentlemen's Window hangs on the wall beside a notice board.

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