Object Details
- Associated Person
- Hugh DeAutremont, American, 1904 - 1959
- Ray Charles DeAutremont, American, 1899 - 1984
- Roy A. A. DeAutremont, American, 1899 - 1983
- Description
- Cover with cornercard of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. - the Pacific Telephone and Telegraphic Co. general office in San Francisco, California. It was addressed to Jones & Dona[ldson?], Title Tr[missing], Portland, Ore[missing] and postmarked "Portland / Oregon / Oct 9 / 7 PM / 1923." The address was changed in red ink with strikethroughs of the second and third lines and additions written to the left, which read, "c/o F. A. Clarke / c/o W.A. Mass[missing]." Partial postmark on the back reads: " [...] 6 PM / 1923 / ORE." Then it was subsequently damaged during the DeAutremont robbery of the Ashland and Gerber Train Number 13 at Siskiyou, Oregon on October 11, 1923.
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Postmark: Portland / Oregon / Oct 9 1923 / 7 PM
- Object number
- 1985.0344.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink (black, red) / typewritten; handwritten
- Dimensions
- 8.9 x 10.2 cm (3.5 x 4 in.)
- Place
- Oregon
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- National Postal Museum
- Associated Event
- DeAutremont train robbery, 1923
- Topic
- The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
- Record ID
- npm_1985.0344.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm886dcc990-3cf6-46ff-be8e-1a1bfe749726
