MICHIGAN POSTAL HISTORY - 1880

 

Here’s an unusual item.

 

Postal Card UX7, printed with a Railroad map:

 

County Map of Eastern Nebraska

Showing the B. & M. R. R. in Neb.

And Leased Lines.

 

B. & M. R. R. is the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad.

 

Below the printed map is an area for a message. The postal is datelined Ann Arbor 6/18/1880.

 

Message concerns health, relapse of sickness, haven’t written.

 

Postal card is tied by a 3-Bar (horizontal) in orb killer, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 18th.

 

The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1872.

 

Posted to Herman Osthaus, Esq., Scranton, Pennsylvania.

 

Member of the American Philatelic Society since 1989.

 

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