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| Title | Jesse Storey on rural mail delivery cart, probably in Renton, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | First Rural Free Delivery from Renton with Jesse Storey as the mailman. The route ran from Springbrook Road to Lake Youngs, Cedar Mountain and Cedar River Valley [Morda C. Slauson, Renton: From Coal to Jets, p. 60].
Text on mail cart in image: R.F.D. No. 1, U.S. Mail.
VELOX stamp box printed on verso.
Renton Historical Society has a 35 mm negative of the original print on file. |
| Subjects | Mail wagons--Washington (State)--Renton
Letter carriers--Washington (State)--Renton
Postal service--Washington (State)--Renton
Horses--Washington (State)--Renton
Fences--Washington (State)--Renton
Roads--Washington (State)--Renton
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| Personal Names | Storey, Jesse |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Renton |
| Digital Collection | Renton Historical Museum Photograph Collection |
| Serial Number | 400 |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please call (425) 255-2330 or email info@rentonhistory.org and mention the Serial Number. |
| Credit Line | Image 400, Courtesy of the Renton Historical Society, Renton. |
| Rights and Reproduction | Contact the Renton History Museum to obtain rights for reproduction and use. info@rentonhistory.org |
| Repository | Renton Historical Museum |
| Repository Collection | Renton Historical Museum Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic postcard: b&w; 2 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | A photographic postcard was scanned as a 3000 pixel wide TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in width and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
