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Badge from NARPC convention
Object Details
- Description
- A member of the National Association of Railway Postal Clerks (NARPC) wore this badge at the 1904 meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The upper metal tag has two cod fish, symbols of Boston, flanking a shield imprinted “US Mail”. It is connected by a red ribbon to a hanging medal with another figurative representation of Massachusetts, a man dressed in seventeenth-century Pilgrim clothing.
- The NARPC voted to change its name at this 1904 convention and became the Railway Mail Association (RMA). Through mergers, the RMA ultimately became part of the American Postal Workers Union.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1904
- Object number
- 1992.2002.254
- Type
- Labor Unions & Associations Material
- Medium
- metal; fabric
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 3.5 in. (3.81 x 8.89 cm)
- Place
- Massachusetts
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Postal Employees
- Record ID
- npm_1992.2002.254
- Usage
- Not determined
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