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Spandet between the Wars
A rural postman delivering the mail on a Post Office
A rural postman delivering the mail on a Post Office bicycle in the town of Maglebylille, on the island of Amager, Denmark, August 2, 1954.
(Post and Tele Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, F2482)

A rural postman starting the day’s rounds on a Post Office bicycle
A rural postman starting the day's rounds on a Post Office bicycle in the town of Maglebylille, on the island of Amager, Denmark, August 2, 1954.
(Post and Tele Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, F3661)

In 1921, Spandet was a village of 500 with a railway station, inn, grocery, co-op store, telegraph and telephone office, church, two-room school, and a community hall.

Potato pickers in Spandet, ca 1940.
Potato pickers in Spandet, ca 1940.
(Jesper Olesen, Spandet Archive)
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