ISSUE 169 - January 3, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
Steamboat Mail Transportation on the Great Lakes — The Ward Steamship Lines*
by W. L. babcock, M. D.
(From the Stamp Specialist, Volume 1, No. 3, 1940)
The transportation of mail on the Great Lakes in the period prior to and during the Civil War, does not appear in the meager Government records of the period. It is surmised that steamboat transportation from point to point was a matter of local arrangements by postmasters on the route or by the distributing office. The five principal shipping centers of the period, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and . . .
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