#postal workers
Some model sheets & keyframes for a concept I did a few years ago called “Postal Heroes.” These designs were fun since I met someone on Discord who used to be a postal worker and got their feedback on the designs to make sure the outfits & story beats were accurate
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
First Mailwoman in Minneapolis
In January, 1945, 25-year-old Evelyn Scheldrup was hired as the first female mail carrier in Minneapolis. Hired as a substitute to fill war-time letter carrier shortages, Evelyn lugged the 50-pound mail bag on various routes through the coldest and snowiest months of the year. She dressed in her own clothes–slacks, sweater, and a jacket or fur coat with a mailman’s hat, depending on the weather–and frequently came home soaked from snow. She was the only woman hired by postmaster John R. Coan during the manpower shortage that year. After suffering a serious knee injury from a slip on the ice, she was reassigned inside the post office as a clerk that spring.
Following WWII, cities didn’t start seeing many female letter carriers again until the early 1960s when president John F. Kennedy ordered federal appointments and promotions be made without regard to sex. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination in hiring in the workplace at large. The number of women letter carriers in cities nationwide jumped from 104 in 1960 to 3,500 in 1968. In 2007, women carriers represented about 40% of the workforce.
Read more about women mail carriers on the USPS website.
Photos of Evelyn Scheldrup from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
