Photo Library
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Marihuana test kit
CBP officer uses a Marihuana test kit at the southern port of entry in Hidalgo TX.
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US Customs Declaration Made London Bridge the World's Largest Antique Ever Sold (Photo 3)
London Bridge across the Thames River in England on its first opening day, August 1, 1831. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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CBP Officers-Landports Image Library (Photo 2)
A train is positioned prior to being x-rayed by a high tech full train x-ray.
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US Customs Declaration Made London Bridge the World's Largest Antique Ever Sold (Photo 5)
Two views of the rebuilt London Bridge at Lake Havasu City in Arizona. The bridge was not reassembled exactly as it was before. The façades were sliced from the stone blocks and adhered to a cement structural support-so it looked like the old bridge, but was sturdier and somewhat smaller. Images from Record Group 412, National Archives and Records Administration.
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CBP Officers-Landports Image Library (Photo 7)
Specialized x-ray equipment looks through a van for contraband that may be hidden inside.
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US Customs Declaration Made London Bridge the World's Largest Antique Ever Sold (Photo 8)
The McCulloch family, a "London Beefeater," and C.V. Wood watch as a granite block is unloaded in Arizona. Courtesy of Lake Havasu Museum of History.
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CBP Officers-Landports Image Library (Photo 4)
A medallion marks the spot where the U.S. and Mexican border meet.
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Photo Gallery: Thomas Melvill, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville (Photo 1)
The Boston Custom House on Custom House Street, between Broad and India Streets. Constructed in 1810, this building served as the customhouse until 1849. At the time Maj. Thomas Melvill and Nathaniel Hawthorne worked here the building consisted of only two stories topped by a similar pediment displaying the American eagle.
Melvill served as customs surveyor (1810-1814) and then customs naval officer (1814-1830) in this building during the last 20 years of his career with the U.S. Customs Service.
Nathaniel Hawthorne served as a customs measurer of coal and salt in this building from Jan. 21, 1839 until Jan. 1, 1841.
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CBP Officers-Landports Image Library
A CBP officer speaks with individuals as they enter the United States.
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Photo Gallery: Thomas Melvill, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville (New York Custom House at 55 Wall Street)
New York Custom House at 55 Wall Street.
The offices of the collectors of customs were located in this building during the period Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector. Melville spent his working days as an inspector on the "outside" on various of the wharves that lined the North River (now the Hudson River). He and his partner(s) were responsible for renting their own "office" space to accommodate themselves and their equipment. When asked how he had managed to retain his job through many changes of administration, Melvill replied that he seldom made an appearance at the Wall Street customhouse -- in other words, the politicians forgot about the quiet, withdrawn older man toiling dutifully under adverse conditions that eventually broke his health and mental stability.
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CBP officer inspects the cab of a truck at the northern border port of Sweetgrass Montana.
CBP officer inspects the cab of a truck at the northern border port of Sweetgrass Montana.
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Photo Gallery: Thomas Melvill, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville (Map)
Map of lower Manhattan showing locations where Herman Melville was born, lived and worked throughout his life.