[Postal employees feeding 17 tons of reading material into a furnace]

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Local identifier: AAK-0663
Title: [Postal employees feeding 17 tons of reading material into a furnace]
Date: 1941 Mar. 19
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Associated Press
San Francisco Call Bulletin
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w. ; 18 x 23 cm. (7 x 9 in.)
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Post Office-Inspectors.
Written on back: "San Francisco postal employees had a busy afternoon, March 19, feeding 17 tons of reading matter labeled by postal authorities as 'Propaganda' into a furnace. Postmaster W.H. McCarthy said the bulk of it, newspapers, pamphlets, books, came from Germany, Russia; some from Japan, Italy. FX ABC CX1&NYneg. ECHO 3/19/41. STF-JBR."
"Associated Press Photo."
Language (code): eng
Genre: graphic
LCSH Subjects: Postal Service--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Post office stations and branches--California--San Francisco
Postal inspectors--California--San Francisco
Bibliographic Number: .b10385861
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:153176