Rural letter carrier's handmade sorting bag
Object Details
- Description
- This unique hand-sown cloth bag is divided into pockets, each labeled with the name of a postal patron. A rural delivery carrier designed and fabricated the bag to sort the mail for delivery in the order of the residences along his route.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- After 1896
- Object number
- 0.234863.13
- Type
- Mail Processing Equipment
- Medium
- fabric (cotton); metal
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 11 1/2 × 13 in. (29.21 × 33.02 cm)
- Place
- Iowa
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Postal Employees
- Record ID
- npm_0.234863.13
