[Men working in a railway mail train] – Historic Reproduction
![[Men working in a railway mail train], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b5/b5f72448166d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Men working in a railway mail train], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Men working in a railway mail train]
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Men sorting letters aboard a moving train are the focus here, a working arrangement that let the Post Office move mail across the country without waiting for it to reach a station. Railway Mail Service cars were fitted with racks and pigeonholes so clerks could sort pouches by destination while the train ran, and by the early twentieth century this system carried a large share of the nation's mail. The National Photo Company, a commercial studio active in Washington in these years, produced many views of federal work, and this print is one of its numbered series. Look closely at the cramped interior and the clerks' concentration, which show how demanding the job was.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1932] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1940. |
| Notes | National Photo Company Collection. No. 29241. |
| Subjects | United States Postal Service--People--1900-1910. Railroad mail service--1900-1940. Railroad cars--1900-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,300 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184691 |
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