Object Details
- Associated Person
- Hugh DeAutremont, American, 1904 - 1959
- Ray Charles DeAutremont, American, 1899 - 1984
- Roy A. A. DeAutremont, American, 1899 - 1983
- Description
- This is a cover damaged during the DeAutremont brothers’ robbery of the Southern Pacific Train Number 13 in Tunnel 13 at Siskiyou, Oregon on October 11, 1923. The window envelope has a printed return address of Marshall-Wells Company, Portland, Oregon. The 2-cent postage stamp was cancelled in Portland, OR, on October 10, 1923.
- The cover came into the collection with a printed label on the back, which the Post Office Department affixed to mail recoved from the bunred railway mail car. The backstamp label read, "This mail damaged by fire and dyna- / mite in hold-up of Ashland & Gerber / Train No. 13, at Siskiyou, Oregon, Octo- / ber 11, 1923."
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Postmark: Portland / Oregon / Oct 10 / 1923 / 4:30 PM
- Object number
- 1990.0563.1
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink (black) / printed; handstamped
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (8.89 × 16.51 cm)
- Place
- Oregon
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- National Postal Museum
- Associated Event
- DeAutremont train robbery, 1923
- Topic
- The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
- Record ID
- npm_1990.0563.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8c943b4d6-57db-486e-83ad-a5a521173d26
