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Folder title: | "History of the Railway Mail Service" Washington, D.C.: U.S. Post Office Dept. c. 1932 |
Date: | 09/26/1932 |
Description: | Excerpt taken from data placed in cornerstone of new Post Office Department building, September 26 1932. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Excerpts |
Folder number: | 05-06-01 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | 175.5 Highway Post Office |
Date: | 01/27/1941 |
Description: | Discussion of how to obtain and rules for First Day Covers for the initial run of Highway Post Offices around the country. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
Folder number: | 03-07-15 |
Subject(s): | Highway Post Office ; Covers |
Folder title: | Canal Zone Cancellation - Discontinuation of Railway Mail Service |
Date: | 05/17/1954 |
Description: | Information about the reestablishment of Railway Mail Service for one day in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the completion of the Panama Railroad. |
Collection: | Panama |
Includes: | Circulars ; Press Releases ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 30-03-161 |
Subject(s): | Press Releases ; Cancellations ; Covers |
Folder title: | Centennial of First U.S. Railway Postal Car - 7/28/62 |
Date: | 07/19/1962 |
Description: | Drafts and copies of speeches to celebrate the Centennial of the first U.S. Railway Postal Car in Hannibal, Missouri. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Speeches ; Posters ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-04-05 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Speeches ; Posters |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Draft Release - Santa Fe Railway 4/69 |
Date: | 04/16/1969 |
Description: | Correspondence and brochures pertaining to the Super C railway mail service serving the cities of Chicago, Kansas City, Amarillo and Los Angeles. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 01-07-38 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Railroad Routes |
Folder title: | HPO and RPO Covers |
Date: | 07/07/1960 |
Description: | Correspondence on the last and first day cancellations of Highway Post Offices and Railroad Mail Service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 03-04-13 |
Subject(s): | Highway Postal Service ; Railroad Mail Service |
Folder title: | Operations 3 Texarkana, Texas |
Date: | 05/14/1965 |
Description: | Materials on Texarkana, Texas post office. Specifically related to the effect on postal employees with the termination on the railway mail by the Post Office Department. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-03-22 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Oregon Magazine |
Date: | 07/01/1985 |
Description: | Re-enacting the trail that sent the men who committed the crime known as the "Last Great Western Train Robbery." |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-36 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Oregon Magazine |
Folder title: | P. 1. Events Special Pony Express Runs, Airline and Rail Runs |
Description: | Correspondence requesting a re-enactment of the Pony Express. Pony Express routes that were requested to re-enacted were: Wausau, Nebraska to Yanton, South Dakota; Wasua, Nebraska to Pierce, Nebraska, Canaan, Indiana to Madison, Dodge to Howelle, Nebraska. Also requests from reporters to board and ride a railway post office. Approval and denial correspondence letters for the above requests are also contained in this file. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-02-10 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P. 1. History Railroads |
Date: | 01/08/1967 |
Description: | Newspaper articles depicting the history of the railroad and its connection with the Post Office Department, much of the material is in relation to the elimination of railway mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 02-02-21 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Milwaukee Journal St. Paul Pioneer Press |
Folder title: | P.1. Congressional Letters 1967-1968 |
Date: | 05/10/1966 |
Description: | Congressional letters - queries regarding the Post Office Department service of parcels to soldiers in Vietnam and the curtailing of the railway service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 01-07-23 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department Congress |
Folder title: | P.1. Press Interviews 1968 |
Date: | 01/04/1966 |
Description: | Letters and copies of interviews from postal employees to various forms of media. Some examples of interviews are from. Forbes Magazine, Modern Railroad magazine, Industrial Research magazine, Associated Press. A transcript from an interview deals with issues of 3rd class mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Copies of Interviews |
Folder number: | 02-02-03 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | P.1. Press Queries 1968 |
Date: | 12/29/1967 |
Description: | Letters pertaining to interview requests to the Post Office Department from various media: Aviation Daily, Aviation week and Space Technology, New York Times, American Newspaper and Magazine Publisher's Association. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-02-02 |
Subject(s): | Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Railroad Strike - July 1967 |
Date: | 07/13/1967 |
Description: | Railroads no longer want to carry mail. Also a discussion of the use of the phrase "junk mail" by the Post Master General. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 02-01-25 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Railway Mail Service - Streetcar Service |
Date: | 01/01/1885 |
Description: | History of Railway Mail Service, copies of photographs and articles of Streetcar Mail Service |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles |
Folder number: | 05-07-33 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; History - Postal |
Original source: | Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company |
Folder title: | RR Maps |
Date: | 06/01/1960 |
Description: | Maps show railroad development from 1830. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Maps |
Folder number: | 05-03-05 |
Subject(s): | Railroad Routes |
Folder title: | Trans "Freight" Trains -Term Change |
Date: | 12/21/1966 |
Description: | Passenger train discontinuance for mail delivery to "fast freight trains" created a problem. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-33 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service |
Folder title: | Trans 14 Railroads (General) |
Date: | 09/16/1962 |
Description: | The decline in railroad mail transportation. Correspondence from the Canada Post Office about a pending railroad strike. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 03-01-07 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Folder title: | Trans 14.1 News Stories (miscellaneous) |
Date: | 07/30/1964 |
Description: | Post Office Department memoranda on the ever declining number of passenger trains used for the transpiration of mail. Correspondence with complain about service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Articles |
Folder number: | 03-01-01 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service |
Folder title: | Trans 18 Railroad Strikes (General) |
Date: | 07/10/1963 |
Description: | Deals with strikes in the U.S. and foreign countries delaying transportation of mail as well as potential strikes that could effect the mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 03-01-02 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts |
Folder title: | Trans Association of American Railroads |
Date: | 04/02/1968 |
Description: | Regarding meetings between Post Office Department executives and members of the Association of American Railroads to improve the ever deteriorating railroad mail transportation service. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
Folder number: | 03-01-08 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans Decline of Passenger Train Service |
Date: | 01/06/1968 |
Description: | Post Office Department statistics on the sharp decline of passenger train service and with it mail transportation. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-01-34 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans New Orleans, LA 4/1/65 |
Date: | 03/05/1965 |
Description: | A statement by John A. Gronouski, before the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee March 11, 1965, remarks by Frederick Bartus concerning the centennial of railway mail. A large amount of material in this file contains information on a Chamber of Commerce Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana attended by William Hartigan in 1965 |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Testimonies ; Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Speeches |
Folder number: | 02-04-09 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Speeches ; Railway Mail Service |
Folder title: | Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1965 |
Date: | 03/10/1965 |
Description: | General administrative correspondence. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-30 |
Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans. 1 Gen. Correspondence 1968 |
Date: | 02/02/1968 |
Description: | General administrative Correspondence. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
Folder number: | 02-06-33 |
Subject(s): | Administration |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Trans. 6-4 Air Taxi - Publicity |
Date: | 12/28/1967 |
Description: | Articles about the air taxi service carrying mail. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Articles ; Correspondence |
Folder number: | 02-07-16 |
Subject(s): | Air mail service |
Original source: | Post Office Department |
Folder title: | Transportation Katty Railroad |
Date: | 05/06/1964 |
Description: | Use of the railroad between Dallas and San Antonio, Texas to carry mail. Switched from railroad to truck service saving money and faster delivery. |
Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
Includes: | Press Releases ; Brochures |
Folder number: | 02-01-23 |
Subject(s): | Railway Mail Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases |