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Title: View of the U.S. Mail Steamship Company's premises, : Aspinwall N. G
Creator: Parsons, Charles, 1821-1910, artist
Otis, Fessenden N. (Fessenden Nott), 1825-1900, artist
Endicott & Co. (New York, N.Y.), printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1854
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
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."
Single-color print. "C. Parsons Lith."--text, bottom left margin. "Printed by Endicott & Co. N.Y."--text, bottom right margin. "Sketched from nature by F. N. Otis M.D. Surgeon in U.S.M. Steamship Co.'s Service."--text, bottom center margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 35.24 x 45.09 cm (13 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MAR_001400
403422
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2068
Language: English
Subject: Panama Canal (Panama)--Pictorial works
Steamboats--Pictorial works
U.S. Mail Steamship Company
Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Maritime
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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