Title	[Post office]
Date	1949
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics	Teachers UNCG Students’ Building
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Three students pose in front of the mailboxes in the post office in the Students' Building in 1949. Back of photo reads "post office the first place the freshman learn." The Students' Building housed the post office from 1932-1949. Prior to 1910, mail was distributed through the dormitories. In 1910, a lock-box Post Office was installed in the basement of Administration Building. In 1932, in a general reorganization of the campus after the library fire of September, 1932, the Post Office moved to the Students’ Building until it was razed in 1949. In 1949, the Post Office was located in the basement of South Spencer Residence Hall until it moved to the Elliott Student Union in 1953. Since 1953, mail has been distributed through locked boxes in the dormitories.
Type	Image
Original format	Photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	UA104 Photographic Prints Collection
Series/grouping	3: Buildings, Grounds, and Views
Folder	333: Students' Building - Post Office - Interior
Folder description	The cornerstone of the Students’ Building was laid in 1902. Contributions from students, faculty, and visiting speakers allowed the completion of the three story structure in 1906. It housed the Domestic Science and Manual Training departments, the post office and book store, society halls, a banquet hall, and a 700 seat auditorium. In 1932, in a general reorganization of the campus the post office moved from the Administration Building to the Students’ Building. The building was razed in 1950.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	ua104.3.333.002
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
Full Text	601-700
OCLC number	872131489

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