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View of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company's premises, : Aspinwall N. G

Description: Image of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company facility in Colón, Panama Canal zone (city known as Aspinwall to Americans at the time); railroad mail cars in foreground with lots of activity, mail steamships in background along docks; many of the mail boxes have labels including, "Wells Fargo," "Adams & Cos. Express," and "Runnels Express," and the mail cars are labeled "A.M. Hinkley's Passenger and Baggage Express" and "Specie U.S. Mails."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1854
Call number: priJLC_MAR_001400
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Aspinwall, Panama

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Side view of the two-story building of the Office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in Aspinwall, Panama, with several laborers in foreground.

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View of Culebra or the summit, the terminus of the Panama rail road In Dec. 1854

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Image of a landscape view of a village of thatched-roof huts at the summit of the Continental Divide in Culebra, Panama, with a busy scene of workers and pack mules, and a passenger train moving through the center of the image with a steam locomotive, labeled "Isthmus" on the boiler, and a first car labeled "U. S. Mails / Specie"; the buildings have the signage: "This way gentlemen ... I am going to old Joe Princes" and "American Hotel."

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California & Oregon Stage Company : carries Wells, Fargo & Cos. express and U.S. mail

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of Mount Shasta and the Cascade Range in Northern California, as seen in the distance from a mountain pass in a forested area with trees, rocks, a stream, and, in the center foreground, a red "California & Oregon Stage Company U.S. Mail" stagecoach pulled by six horses and crowded with male and female passengers both in the coach and riding on its roof; one Chinese passenger has a queue hairstyle.

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Hamburg American Packet Company. Imperial German U.S. mail steamships

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Image of a steamsship sailing the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by promotional text advertising the Hamburg American Packet Company steamship routes, including lines from New York City to France, England, and various locations in Germany; decorative borders and banners with text surround the image; "H.A.P.A.G." on shield surrounded by flags at top center.

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"The Fast Mail." : Scene of catching and delivering the mails on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway

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Image of an eye-level perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, a dog, and basket of fruit in the foreground, with a man throwing a mail bag from a train car to a man on the ground; the steam locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer behind the cab labeled "J.H. Devereux", the number "317" written on the locomotive, and a Masonic logo on the smoke-box door.

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Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's steamer China

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Image of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's steamer China sailing with another vessel visible in the background.

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View of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company's premises, : Aspinwall N. G

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