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A postal telegraph messenger with his bike.A five-year-old boy next to a pile of oyster shells.A newspaper boy wearing a hat.Barefoot girls carrying food.A mill girl next to a huge spinning machine.A ten-year-old boy next to a tobacco plant.A girl sitting with other kids, rolling cigars.A girl standing in a factory, hammering a basket.A small boy with a huge bag of newspapers.
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What If...
you had to wear a uniform and race your bike through busy city streets all day, delivering telegrams?


A postal telegraph messenger with his bike.

Who:

A postal telegraph messenger poses with his bike.

Where:

Birmingham, Alabama

When:

November 1910

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