Timeless Deliveries: 24 Vintage Photos Capturing Postmen from Over a Century Ago

   

These are what postmen from 100 years ago looked like.

 
A letter carrier standing in front of a mailbox at Mott Street above Park Row, 1903
 
A mail carrier stands with his Wagner 4-11 motorcycle next to a postal box along his route near Newell, South Dakota, 1915

 

 
A mailman in uniform carrying leather satchel and a huge backpack of newspapers and letters, ca. 1880s

 

A postman on New York street, 1896

 

A U.S rural mailman in 1914

 

 
a letter carrier delivering mail by bicycle, ca. 1890s

 

An unidentified letter carrier posed in uniform, 1885

 

Busy postman, 1900

 

Early 1900s mail carrier in New York City

 

 
Mail carrier in the late 1800s

 

 
Mailman carries letter packages, 1914

 

 
Mailman carrying bags and boxes of holiday mail standing on the steps of a store, 1903

 

Mailman collecting letters from a mailbox, ca. 1890s

 

Mailman collects letters from a mailbox on New York street, ca. late 1800s

 

Mailman delivers mail to a woman along his route, 1908

 

Mailmen on scooters, 1911

 

Postman and pillar box, ca. 1850s

 

Postman delivering mail, 1912

 

Postman on a penny farthing, ca. 1890s

 

Postman with good conduct stripes, Hurstpierpoint, Brighton, 1897

 

Rural free delivery mail carrier on horse, 1907
 

 

Rural mail carrier on a Harley Davidson motorcycle in Bartow, Florida, 1912

 

The U.S. mailman in 1914

 

 
Uniformed letter carriers pose with their satchels in Newark, New Jersey, 1888