Description
A photograph of mail carrier wagons stopped in Clearwater, Nebraska. The people shown in the photograph are as follows:
first from left: Jessie Mitchel's father
second from left: Walter (Walt) Snider
third from right: Stanley Heminway
second from right: Jewel Fannon.
At the time of this photograph, Jewel Fannon was the Clearwater postmaster. Horse and buggies were the original means by which to carry mail, especially to rural homesteads. Mail by horse and buggy was not obsolete until the mid-20th century.