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Money Orders
Postal money order rate card
Description:
This rate card, January 1907 edition, advertises that patrons can obtain postal money orders from postmasters and their rural delivery carriers. It lists common sums of $2.50, $5.00, $10.00, and $100.00 with their fees. Targeted to rural customers, the text promotes the use of money orders to pay “merchant, publishers, seedsmen, insurance companies, etc.”
Date:
January 1907
Markings:
(No. 6625.) / If you want to send small sums of money through the mails cheaply, quickly and safely, / Ask the Postmaster or Rural Delivery Carrier for a / POSTAL MONEY ORDER. / . . .
Medium:
paper; ink / printed
Dimensions:
8.9 x 15.2 cm (3.5 x 6 in.)
Museum ID:
2002.2032.1
Place:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Collection:
Credits:
Donated by Carol and David Forde in Memory of Gustav Koch
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