The Snapshots in Time Collection
Toll Service and Telegrams Billing Slip, July 1942 (Moon Sammiet Correspondence)
This 1942 toll service billing slip, part of the Moon Sammiet wartime letters collection, documents a telegram charge with the federal excise tax levied on telegraph and long-distance telephone messages during World War II, a small but telling artifact of home-front life and the financial reach of the war effort. Project: 218345