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Figure 5 Sequim
Post Office in 1911
with Postmaster
Holding Dog and
Mail Sack at Left
(courtesy Tim
Boardman).
Alberta, Canada. It reads:
This gives you an idea where I spend most
of my time. The small building is the post
office and it looks very much better inside
than it does out. The other building is the
drug store. The man with the mail sack and
dog is the p.m. The one with the mail in front
of him is the mail carrier and the one at the
back of the building is the druggist and ass’t
p.m.
The prairielands gradually converted to ir-
rigated farms as the area water system ex-
panded, the town grew and flourished. By
1920, Sequim had grown to a respectable-
sized community of 402 people, surrounded
Figure 6 Reverse of 1911 Post Office Card.
by dairy farms and truck farms. Figure 7
was built through the town. (Rail buffs may be inter
shows an idyllic postcard view of Sequim’s
-
ested to know that the rail tracks were removed in
post office in the 1930s, when a flat of tomatoes was
1986, and replaced by the Olympic Discovery Trail.)
only 99 cents, and you could collect your mail after
shopping at the green grocer and before treating your-
The postcard in figures 5 and 6 shows the Sequim
self to a soda at the drugstore fountain next store.
post office in 1911. The reverse of the card, dated
SEQUIM/DEC 7/AM/1911/WASH., is addressed to
Figure 7 Postmark Examples from 1912, 1915 and 1918 (Courtesy of PMCC and Cliff Brehan)
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