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Description
Baggage handlers in San Francisco, calling themselves "baggage smashers," sent this stereoscopic postcard to Henry Thurston Clark of Bangor who had shipped a valise cross country. They write a verse about the luggage being delayed in Omaha. The card shows the railroad ferry "El Capitan."
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About This Item
- Title: Greeting to Henry Thurston Clark, 1873
- Creator: Thomas Houseworth & Co.
- Creation Date: 1873
- Subject Date: 1873
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Locations:
- USA
- Halifax, NS, Canada
- Halifax, NS, Canada
- USA
- Media: Stereograph, ink
- Local Code: Coll. 4258
- Collection: Henry Thurston Clark papers in trunk
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Central Pacific Railroad Company
- Correspondence
- El Capitan (Boat)
- Ferries
- Letters
- Luggage
- Manuscripts
- Railroad employees
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