POSTMARKED ON A STREETCAR IN CHICAGO - 1905

 

Chicago Streetcar Railway Post Office


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CHICAGO, COTT. GRO. AV. R.P.O. ILL

This Railway Post office ran 7.73 miles on the Chicago City Railway Co.
and is postmarked 27 September 1905.

Train or Trip 16. Dial measures approx. 29mm.

Posted to Miss Sophia Belden, Hartford, Connecticut.

There is a Hartford receiving making, the next day, Sep 28th 1905.

 

Undivided back picture postcard depicting

 

Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

 

Published by H.C. Leighton, Portland, Maine.

 

The stamp is faulty. The postcard is dirty

and stained, corner and edge damage.

 

 

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