Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan.
Galbraith, Frank H.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago, 1897, c1898.
SUMMARY One of eight large-scale 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 maps were rented for practicing or prospective workers who numbered over 6,000 and traveled over 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. For published maps showing the routes of the mail service see entries 283 and 313.
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In 1897, Chicago railroad mail clerk Frank H. Galbraith drew a map of Michigan that was really a cheat sheet. Littered with tiny, charming pictures and colored lines showing railroad routes, the map was a mnemonic device meant to help people pass the qualifying examination to work for the railroad 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.
