Railway Post Office booklet
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Title: Railway Post Office booklet
Dates: 1911-1913
Collection Number: MS 545
Creator/Collector:
Railway Post Office
Extent: 1 folder
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: packages, jackets, registered cases, through registered pouches, and inner registered sacks, received by [Name], en route
from [Location] to [Location]." Handwritten entries record a description of package, where postmarked, date of delivery,
location of post office, name of R.P.O. or transfer clerk at station of delivery, and signature of employee to whom delivered.
Inside front cover are printed "Special Instructions to Railway Postal Clerks in Relation to Registered Matter." This volume
bears entries between 1911 and 1913. Appears to cover routes between Wichita Falls, Dallas and Denison, Texas. Inscription
on front endpapers "Henry M. Campbell, 6/11/11, Wichita Falls and Dallas."
Language of Material: English
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Railway Post Office booklet. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Gift of Stepen Von Biner, 2007
Scope and Content of Collection
packages, jackets, registered cases, through registered pouches, and inner registered sacks, received by [Name], en route
from [Location] to [Location]." Handwritten entries record a description of package, where postmarked, date of delivery,
location of post office, name of R.P.O. or transfer clerk at station of delivery, and signature of employee to whom delivered.
Inside front cover are printed "Special Instructions to Railway Postal Clerks in Relation to Registered Matter." This volume
bears entries between 1911 and 1913. Appears to cover routes between Wichita Falls, Dallas and Denison, Texas. Inscription
on front endpapers "Henry M. Campbell, 6/11/11, Wichita Falls and Dallas."