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
Date
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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Data Source
National Postal Museum
Associated Event
DeAutremont train robbery, 1923
Topic
The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)
Covers & Letters
Link to Original Record
Record ID
npm_1990.0563.1