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May 20, 2007

Route 66 Mailboxes, Arizona, 1997

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

A mountain range provides dramatic backdrop for a cluster of mailboxes along a stretch of Arizona's Route 66. Once known as "America's Main Street," it was the primary road from Chicago to Los Angeles before the Interstate Highway System was developed.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Route 66: Romancing the Road," September 1997, National Geographic magazine)