Woman's Federal Express Uniform
date: label: date made
content: ca 1992
notes: label: Description
content: This 1990s-era Federal Express uniform consists of black pants, a white blouse with orange and purple stripes, a black wind breaker, a pair of striped white socks, a black belt, and a black cap. The windbreaker and cap are embroidered “FEDERAL/EXPRESS.”
label: Description
content: Fred Smith, the founder of Federal Express, believed that customers desired mass-produced electronic gadgets but that the decentralization of American industry created a logistics problem. Smith’s company provided door-to-door delivery by operating its own aircraft from a centralized sorting depot in Memphis, Tennessee. Federal Express was founded in 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas, before moving to Memphis in 1973.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Christopher Lovelock, “<i>Federal Express (B)</i>,” (case study, Harvard Business School, Boston, 1982).
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Federal Express Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3115.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3115.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1993.3115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: uniform
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (fastenings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.3 cm x 53 cm x 43 cm; 3 1/4 in x 20 7/8 in x 16 15/16 in