Railway Express Agency records 1881-1967

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Railway Express Agency records 1881-1967

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Materials relating to the northwestern U.S. operations of the freight shipping company Railway Express Agency (REA), consisting primarily of records created by the Seattle office of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in their relations with REA. Includes correspondence (1921-1943), bulletins (1939-1963), express rates, delivery sheets, and ephemera.

5.2 cubic feet; 10 document cases, 1 oversize folder

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6365069

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Brotherhood of Railway Clerks

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Railway Express Agency

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The Railway Express Agency had its origins in the overland stagecoach and pony express services that linked the eastern and western U.S. prior to the building of the transcontinental railroad. In the railroad era, express companies worked with the railroads in handling door-to-door freight shipping. By 1914 there were seven major express companies, and these were consolidated by the Federal Government during World War I into the American Railway Express Agency. In the late 1920s a g...