Leland House Hotel Owney tag
Object Details
- Description
- Owney received this hotel key token from the Leland House hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The original number, 16, was scratched out and replaced with the number 51. The hotel was the city’s largest and most prominent hotel of the age. A few of Owney’s railway journeys took him into Canada, including one that took him aboard the Canadian Pacific railroad.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1888-1897
- Object number
- 0.052985.47
- Associated Organization
- Leland House
- Honoree
- Owney, American, c. 1888 - 1897
- Type
- Seals, Symbols & Signage
- Medium
- metal (brass)
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
- Place
- Manitoba (Canadian province)
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Popular Culture
- Record ID
- npm_0.052985.47
