Boston Streetcar Mail to Clara Barton
Object Details
- Description
- 2-cent carmine Washington on cover addressed to Clara Barton. The cover was collected by the Boston Streetcar RPO.
- The Boston Circuit RPO ran only at night collecting and sorting mail from suburban post offices. This route, in operation June 8, 1895 to June 30, 1915, carried the heaviest mail volume of any Boston Streetcar RPO. Mail leaving Boston was sorted and pouched for train connections to other cities, especially at South Station.
- Clara Barton (1821-1912) founded the National First Aid Association of America after she resigned from the Red Cross in 1904. She died in Glen Echo, Maryland.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- July 24, 1911
- Object number
- 1984.0422.895
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink (carmine)
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (9.2 x 16.2 cm)
- Place of Destination
- Glen Echo, Maryland
- Place of Origin
- Boston, Massachusetts
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 332
- Topic
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_1984.0422.895
