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30 Things You Could Buy For $1 in 1900

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16. 100 Postage Stamps

A postage stamp from 1900. Credit: Pinterest

Back in the year 1900, a stamp was just a penny. This was great for the average American, because people were sending letters all the time. And these were not always the long messages we see in history class. For a long time, people treated letters almost like text messages, and would send just a couple sentences back and forth to communicate with friends and family.

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