Object Details
- Description
- This 1990s-era Federal Express uniform consists of black pants, a white blouse with orange and purple stripes, a black wind breaker, a pair of striped white socks, a black belt, and a black cap. The windbreaker and cap are embroidered “FEDERAL/EXPRESS.”
- Fred Smith, the founder of Federal Express, believed that customers desired mass-produced electronic gadgets but that the decentralization of American industry created a logistics problem. Smith’s company provided door-to-door delivery by operating its own aircraft from a centralized sorting depot in Memphis, Tennessee. Federal Express was founded in 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas, before moving to Memphis in 1973.
- Reference:
- Christopher Lovelock, “Federal Express (B),” (case study, Harvard Business School, Boston, 1982).
- Credit Line
- Gift of Federal Express Corporation
- ca 1992
- ID Number
- 1993.3115.01
- catalog number
- 1993.3115.01
- nonaccession number
- 1993.3115
- Object Name
- uniform
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- plastic (fastenings material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.3 cm x 53 cm x 43 cm; 3 1/4 in x 20 7/8 in x 16 15/16 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1369398
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-c4ae-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
