Pony Express Memorial

Original Vintage Card

Price: $15.95

Stock #:

1028518

Type:

Postcard

Era:

Linen

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Publisher:

Curt Teich & Co.

Shaffer News Agency

Postmark:

1950

Postmark City:

Saint Joseph

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Size:

3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Publisher's Stock/Series #:

N-16580

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A statue of a Pony Express rider on horseback. The monument commemorates the Pony Express which carried mail between St. Joseph, MO, and Sacramento, CA, a distance of 2,000 miles in eleven days. This service started at St. Joseph on April 3, 1860.

The back of the card has "12." handwritten on it.

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SHAFFER NEWS AGENCY, ST. JOSEPH, MO. This monument located in St. Joseph's million dollar civic center commemorates the Pony Express which carried the mail between St. Joseph, Mo. and Sacramento, Calif. a dis- tance of 2000 miles in eleven days, this ser- vice started at St. Joseph on April 3, 1860. GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO C.T. AMERICAN ART POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.) HERE

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