Galbraith's Railway Mail Service Map

Frank H. Galbraith
Galbraith's Railway Mail Service Maps, Kansas
Lithograph mapChicago, 1897
Geography & Map Division (14A.7)
Digital ID# g4151p rr002200

This one of eight large-scaled pictorial maps of midwestern states showing routes and post offices of the Railway Mail Service. Designed by Chicago railway mail clerk Frank H. Galbraith to help employees of the Railway Mail Service quickly locate counties and post offices. The mail service numbered more than 6,000 employees, who traveled more than a million miles a year on the rails sorting mail. A printed title cartouche accompanied by a list of counties for each of the states by McEwen Map Company of Chicago is pasted on the maps.