New York Post Office Owney Tag
Object Details
- Description
- Owney may have received this token from a letter carrier. The token is actually a cap badge style worn by U.S. letter carriers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The badge is number 73 from the Brooklyn, New York, post office. There is no additional information to indicate the name of the person who gave this token to Owney, or when it was received. The city of Brooklyn was one Owney visited several times during his travels, and he received at least seven tokens during those visits.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1888-1897
- Object number
- 0.052985.57
- Type
- Seals, Symbols & Signage
- Medium
- metal
- Dimensions
- Height x Width x Depth: 1 13/16 × 3 1/8 × 1/16 in. (4.6 × 7.94 × 0.16 cm)
- Place
- New York
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Postal Employees
- Popular Culture
- Record ID
- npm_0.052985.57
