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DeAutremont train robbery disaster cover

Hugh DeAutremont, American, 1904 - 1959

Burnt, partial mail piece has a typed address for Lyle S. Vincent & Company, White Building, Seattle, Washington. The damage to this mail is attributed to the burning of the mail car during the DeAutremont brothers' robbery of the Ashland and Gerber Train Number 13 at Siskiyou, Oregon, on October 11, 1923.

Date

1923

Type

Covers & Associated Letters

Medium

paper; ink (black) / typewritten

Department

NPM

Institution

National Postal Museum

Object number

npm_2003.2004.3

Credit

National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution