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DeAutremont train robbery disaster cover
Object Details
- Description
- Burnt, partial mail piece has a typed address for Lyle S. Vincent & Company, White Building, Seattle, Washington. The damage to this mail is attributed to the burning of the mail car during the DeAutremont brothers' robbery of the Ashland and Gerber Train Number 13 at Siskiyou, Oregon, on October 11, 1923.
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1923
- Object number
- 2003.2004.3
- Associated Person
- Hugh DeAutremont, American, 1904 - 1959
- Ray Charles DeAutremont, American, 1899 - 1984
- Roy A. A. DeAutremont, American, 1899 - 1983
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink (black) / typewritten
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 17 cm (3 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
- Place of Destination
- Washington
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Associated Event
- DeAutremont train robbery, 1923
- Topic
- The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
- Record ID
- npm_2003.2004.3
- Usage
- CC0
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