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Photograph of Railway Mail Service clerks in Kansas City, Missouri

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Object Details

Description

A group of thirteen unidentified postal employees pose with mail sacks at a back entrance to the old Kansas City, Missouri, post office. Most of the clerks were part of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service (RMS). Unlike Railway Post Office (RPO) clerks who sorted mail on board moving trains, these RMS clerks worked to move and process mail going onto or coming off of RPO cars.
National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection
Photographer: Unknown

Credit line

National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown

Date

c. 1910

Object number

A.2009-40

Type

Photographs

Medium

paper; photo-emulsion

Dimensions

Height x Width (unframed): 7 x 10 in. (17.78 x 25.4 cm)

Place

Missouri
United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm87b692b68-4634-481b-bd00-f1e59ba2fa9e

Record ID

npm_A.2009-40

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