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Express Mail Collection, ca. 1869-1966
GC 1048
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Title: Express Mail Collection, ca. 1869-1966
Dates: 1869-1966
Collection Number: GC 1048
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Extent: .4 linear ft.
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: This is an artificial collection of materials, primarily ephemera, from the Railway Express Agency and Wells Fargo and Company
Express.
Language of Material: English
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Express Mail Collection, ca. 1869-1966. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Scope and Content of Collection
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. There is one Adams Express
Company receipt.