Express Mail Collection, 1890-1966.

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Express Mail Collection, 1890-1966.

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This is an artificial collection of materials, primarily ephemera, from the Railway Express Agency and Wells Fargo and Company Express. In addition to ephemera, there is a Wells Fargo Delivery Receipt Book (1916) and Register of way-bills (1917). There is also a printed booklet detailing the agreement between the Railway Express Agency and its workers. One photograph shows 14 men, possibly bankers, ca. 1900-1910. A map of Long Beach shows rail and bus lines in that city.

.4 linear ft. (1 legal size box, 1 ov folder)

Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Foundation, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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SNAC Resource ID: 7000112

Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Foundation, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

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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...

Wells Fargo and Company Express.

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