Mailboxes: Urban street furniture in Canada
ISBN: 9781772824360
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Ottawa Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Mailboxes -- Collectors and collecting -- Canada -- History; Postal service -- Canada -- History; Art Municipal -- Canada;

Aficionados of postal history will appreciate this richly illustrated study of the ingenuity and tenacity that has characterized the search for the perfect mailbox: a high quality, weather-resistant object that protects its precious postal contents. The book traces the evolution of modern urban street furniture, including early cast-iron pillar boxes, fiberglass mailboxes, and contemporary high-tech models.


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