Documenting the history of American Express as an in-house historian

NEW YORK — Ira Galtman is part of a small community of corporate archivists. For nearly three decades, Galtman’s job has been to document how American Express went from a packing, shipping and express stagecoach company in New York in 1850, to the inventor of the traveler’s cheque in the 1890s to the credit card company it is today. A: We did a project showing American Express’s role in the Civil War, which was really interesting. I’d love to find an American Express wagon. He was an account executive at Ogilvy & Mather, an advertising agency that American Express had used going back to the mid 1960s.