Photograph of Railway Mail Service clerks in Kansas City, Missouri
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
- 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
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- National Postal Museum
- Record ID
- npm_A.2009-40
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm87b692b68-4634-481b-bd00-f1e59ba2fa9e
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