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Two small details that makes this truly fantastic: That it was addressed to the actual building (Rosenwald Hall) that Indiana would have worked (a lesser fanboy
by Jun8 14y ago
Two small details that makes this truly fantastic: That it was addressed to the actual building (Rosenwald Hall) that Indiana would have worked (a lesser fanboy would have addressed it to the Oriental Museum) and that it has no ZIP code, since those would not be in use at that time (adopted starting from 1963).
Amazing.
- timdiggerm 14y agoOn the other hand, it looks like they used a modern mailing envelope instead of brown paper as the string would indicate was appropriate.
- pondababa 14y agoRosenwald is also the admissions building. It may very well be a fanboy applicant to the University.
- moioci 14y agoWouldn't the pre-ZIP code address look something like Chicago 37, Ill?
- andrewem 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code claims without citation that zones were introduced in 1943. http://web.archive.org/web/20041030125608/https://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub100/pub100.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20041030125608/https://www.usps.c... confirms May 1943. It's not clear when the envelope was supposed to be from, so it may be right that it doesn't have a zone like "37" after Chicago. Awesomely, using a ZIP code on a supposedly pre-ZIP letter was one of the clues that exposed a document forger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_document_hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_document_hoax