In November of 1948, Mary Rowland (left) and Cathey McCoun went to the main Tacoma post office in the Federal Building at 1102 A St. to buy the newly issued Juliette Gordon Low commemorative stamps. The stamp was the first ever issued honoring the founder of the Girl Scouts. Postal clerk Rodney E. Gadd showed Cathey a full sheet of stamps with Julliette Low's portrait and the caption "Founder of the Girl Scouts" . (T. Times, 11/16/48, p. 7).

Uniforms; Girl Scouts (Tacoma); Post offices--Tacoma; Postal service--Tacoma; Signs (Notices); Postal service employees--Tacoma; Postal service rates; Postage stamps; Rowland, Mary; McCoun, Cathey; Gadd, Rodney E.;

Circa 1910.

Circa 1955.

Circa 1909.

Circa 1912.

In April of 1919, two postal carriers, S.P. Hammerbeck and Charlie Matters (order not known), and their trusty dog posed with their shining black delivery vehicles on the brick areas outside the Federal Building at 1102 A Street, in downtown Tacoma. The U.S. Post Office's Main branch was located there. Both Mr. Hammerbeck and Mr. Matters delivered parcel post packages in their 1/2-ton Dodge "business cars." They praised the low costs of maintaining this make of vehicle. The Dodge Brothers did not believe in change for change's sake, and their delivery trucks, called commercial cars, remained basically unchanged from 1917 to 1922. TPL-936; G42.1-120 (TDL 4-13-19, C-11)

Federal Building (Tacoma); United States Post Office (Tacoma); Post offices--Tacoma; Postal service employees--Tacoma; Dogs--Tacoma--1910-1920; Dodge automobile; Matters, Charlie; Hammerbeck, S.P.;

Surrounded by baskets and bins overflowing with letters and packages, a female employee at the Main U.S. Post Office in Tacoma, 1102 A Street, tried to keep up with the Christmas crush of mail in December of 1922. The clerk, believed to be Frances Bonell or Elizabeth Hoefler, used a city directory to look up an address. She was writing out a new mailing label for a package that could not be delivered as marked. TPL-1647; G42.1-121 (Tacoma Sunday Ledger, magazine section, 12-31-22, p. 4-uncropped photograph)

Post offices--Tacoma; Correspondence; Packaging;