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Department of State Diplomatic Courier Bill Croasdale hands pouch to Vice Consul I.
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The Department of State’s Diplomatic Pouch and Mail Room, 1939.
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A Diplomatic Courier (left) waits in the Department of State’s mail room in 1948 as diplomatic pouch contents are sorted and logged.
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A Department of State Diplomatic Courier (right) delivers pouched items to a U.S. Embassy Paris officer on the airport tarmac late one evening in 1957.
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John Otto (left) and Jim Waight (right) are the first Diplomatic Couriers to return to Beijing on April 26, 1973, after a 23-year hiatus in U.S. diplomatic presence in China.
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Diplomatic Courier Philip F. Vandivier boards an airplane with two diplomatic pouches at the Frankfurt Regional Courier Facility in 1951.
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Diplomatic Courier William McGovern leaving the State Department with a typical pouch load, 1963.
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A Diplomatic Courier oversees the loading of diplomatic pouches aboard an international Braniff Airlines flight, circa 1950.
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Couriers standing in front of a building in Europe.
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Courier founder, Major Amos J. Peaslee (center) is flanked by the first group of couriers
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A diplomatic pouch which would have held relatively small written dispatches in briefcases before 1980.
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A Diplomatic Courier monitors the loading of pouches and containers. By the 1990s diplomatic “pouches “assumed all shapes and sizes. (U.S. Department of State)
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Oxygen is necessary on some courier trips, such as the flight from Lima, Peru, to La Paz, Bolivia
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Circa 1986, a DS Diplomatic Courier loads bagged pouches aboard an international flight at a Washington, D.C., airport.
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Susan Shirley Carter the first female courier receives an award.
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A diplomatic courier with his pouch prior to boarding an airplane in 1947.
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Two diplomatic couriers review the world-wide network of U.S. Diplomatic Courier routes map, circa 1950s.
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December 1951, a diplomatic courier stuffs a pouch.
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December 1951, a diplomatic courier seals a pouch.
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December 1951, a diplomatic courier fills a vertical pouch.
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An American diplomatic courier poses with his cargo just prior to boarding at an airport in Latin America, circa 1950s.
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A diplomatic courier boards a plane while the porter carries pouches ahead of him, circa 1950s.
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A Regional Courier Officer briefs couriers on a new trip, circa 1950s.
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Diplomatic Courier Ray Irwin (on stretcher) is brought back to the United States for medical attention.
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A diplomatic courier just prior to boarding an airplane, circa 1950s.
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A diplomatic courier stands by a sea wall with his pouch, circa 1950s.
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September 1961, two diplomatic couriers verify pouches.
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A diplomatic courier with papers from U.S. posts all over Latin America is met by a State Department man, circa 1950s.
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Three diplomatic couriers review the world-wide network of U.S. Diplomatic Courier routes map, circa 1950s.
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A U.S. Army courier delivers letters to the V-mail room at the Pentagon (1943).
