Railway Express Agency records, 1881-1967.

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Railway Express Agency records, 1881-1967.

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The collection consists primarily of records collected by the Seattle office of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks (B.R.C.). These detail the union's dealings with the Railway Express Agency over issues of wages, promotions, and employment classification. Included is correspondence (1921-1943), bulletins (1939-1963), lists of express rates, delivery sheets, signs, tags, labels, pamphlets, and other ephemera.

5.3 cubic feet (10 document cases, 1 oversize folder)

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8152766

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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...