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New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Ticket, Good for One Ride by U.S. Mail Carrier (Verso)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 18 May 2019 05:17:02 +0000

A postal carrier ticket for the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad.

See also the front of the ticket.

This ticket when presented by U.S. Mail Carrier will be accepted in payment of fare only on the following lines:

St. Charles Avenue.
Claiborne "
Jackson "
Napoleon "
Tulane "
Carrollton "

New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Ticket, Good for One Ride by U.S. Mail Carrier, ca. 1900

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 18 May 2019 05:17:04 +0000

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A postal carrier ticket for the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad with an illustration of a green-tinted streetcar.

See also the other side of the ticket.

New Orleans & Carrollton R.R. Co.

Good for one ride on presentation by U.S. mail carrier.

J. K. Newman, prest.

Hudson River Day Line Pass, 1899

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:53:32 +0000

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"Hudson River Day Line Pass, 1899. E. D. Bennett, G.S.,
Bennington & Rutland Ry. E. E. Olcott, general manager. 412."

E. D. Bennett, the general superintendent of the Bennington & Rutland Railway Company, also received a pass from the Adirondack Steamboat Company in 1897. The boat pictured on this card is the side-wheel steamer New York

See below for some other steamboat passes and tickets from the Adirondack Steamboat Company/ (1897), Baltimore Steam Packet Company (1911), New Jersey Steamboat Company (1870), and Reading Steamboat Company.

Baltimore Steam Packet Company Pass, 1911

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:52:28 +0000

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"Baltimore Steam Packet Co. Bay Line, 1911. Pass Mr. John F. Auch, Frt Traf. Mgr-–Philadelphia & Reading Rwy, until December 31st unless otherwise ordered. John R. Sherwood, president & general manager. No. 1726. Not valid unless countersigned by W. W. Erdman or myself. Florida."

According to Wikipedia, "The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia."

The steamer Florida, which is pictured on the pass, was a propeller-driven, steel-hulled vessel built by the Maryland Steel Company in 1907. For another illustration of the ship, see Steam Packets on the Chesapeake: A History of the Old Bay Line since 1840 (Centreville, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 1961), by Alexander Crosby Brown, p. 82.

John F. Auch was a freight traffic manager for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, which later changed its name to the Reading Railroad and was immortalized as one of the railroads featured on the Monopoly game board.

Compare this pass with an Adirondack Steamboat Company Pass, 1897:

Fourth of July Railway Pass, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 30 to July 6, 1935

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:53:02 +0000

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Pass issued in 1935 by The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L. Co.), which operated streetcar lines in Milwaukee until the 1950s.

"The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company. Within the single fare areas of Milwaukee and Racine only. Good from 5:00 a.m. Sunday until 5:00 a.m. the following Sunday. Not good on Wisconsin Motor Bus Lines. Pass must be shown on demand. 32273. July 4, 1776. 27. June 30 to July 6, 1935 incl. $1 weekly pass S. B. Way, president."

Cornwall Railroad Company Pass, Cornwall, Pa., 1895

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 07 May 2015 22:09:48 +0000

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"Cornwall Railroad. 1895. Good during current year. Unless otherwise ordered. Pass: Howard Boyd, secy. & treas., Phila., Newtown, & New York R.R. Wm. C. Freeman, president. No. 193. Hosford & Sons, N.Y."

Printed on the back: "This pass is not transferable, and the person accepting and using it thereby assumes all risk of accident and damage to person or baggage."

General Railroad of Time Ticket, January 1, 1906, to January 1, 1907

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:24:24 +0000

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A postcard with an undivided back (only an address was allowed on the back of this type of early postcard--no message). There's no stamp or postmark, but it's addressed to: "Mr. & Mrs. M. A. Rice, Montclair, New Jersey."

The stamp box on the back of the postcard ("Place postage stamp here. Domestic, one cent. Foreign, two cents.") is overwritten with the words, "Mervyn Pony Post," meaning, I assume, that Mervyn received it in person from Eva and Billy. Mervyn then presumably carried it home to show the New Year greeting on the front (a parody of a railroad passenger ticket decorated in red and green colors with Christmas holly leaves and berries) to his wife Nellie and the rest of the Rice family.

General Railroad of Time, 1906-1907
Three Hundred & Sixty Five Trip Family Ticket

This ticket officially stamped and dated will entitle Nellie & Mervyn and family to one continuous happy and prosperous passage through life from January 1st, 1906, to January 1st, 1907, and may be renewed for as long a period thereafter as they may desire, without further notice.

365. Signed and sealed by Eva & Billy.

Father Time, General Passenger Agent.

Copyright 1905 by William Joseph Burkhardt, 206 Ocean Avenue, Jersey City, N.J.

Adirondack Steamboat Company Pass, 1897

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:40:46 +0000

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"Adirondack Steamboat Co. Pass E. D. Bennett, G. Supt., Bennington & Rutland Railway, until December 31st, 1897, unless otherwise ordered. George Sweet, president. No. 1932. American Bank Note Co., N.Y."

Pennsylvania Railroad Monthly School Ticket, 1892

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:10:28 +0000

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"Pennsylvania Railroad Co. This monthly school ticket entitles Austin McD. Collier to forty-six rides between Haverford College and Philadelphia during the month of Feb. 1892. Subject to the conditions on back which must be signed before using. J. R. Wood, general passenger agent. No. 314."

Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Employee Pass, 1909

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:53:16 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

See also a 1908 version of this pass.

Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 1909

Pass T. D. Leader and wife, foreman carpenters, Altoona Car Shops, over the Eastern & Western Pennsylvania Divisions, during the year 1909, unless otherwise ordered when signed by G. W. Creighton.

Not good on Penna. Special or Penna. Limited or Trains 43 or 44.

Employee. 593.

G. W. Creighton, gen'l supt., Eastern Penna. Div.

S. C. Long, gen'l supt., Western Penna. Div.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Employee Pass, 1908

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:53:18 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

See also a 1909 version of this pass.

Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 1908

Pass T. D. Leader and wife, foreman carpenters, Altoona Car Shops, over the Eastern & Western Pennsylvania Divisions, during the year 1908, unless otherwise ordered when signed by G. W. Creighton.

Not good on Penna. Special or Penna. Limited or Trains 43 or 44.

Employee. 2217.

G. W. Creighton, gen'l supt., Eastern Penna. Div.

S. C. Long, gen'l supt., Western Penna. Div.

New Jersey Steamboat Company Pass, 1870 (Back)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:44:53 +0000

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See also the front of this pass (below).

"I hereby accept this free ticket, and assume all risks of accidents, losses and injuries, both to person and property, on the route of this Company, while using it whether occasioned by negligence of its agents or otherwise."

"This ticket is invalid unless signed by the individual named thereon, and, if presented by any other person, is to be taken up by the Clerk."

New Jersey Steamboat Company Pass, 1870 (Front)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:44:55 +0000

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See also the back of this pass (below).

"New Jersey Steamboat Company. 1870 Season. People's Line. Not transferable. New York, April 5, 1870. Pass [W. J. Pierrepout & J. Bredt?]. Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburgh R.R. Subject to the conditions on the back hereof. No. Rgd. Jno. C. Hewitt, G.T.A."

John C. Hewitt was a general ticket agent for People's Line Steamers.

Pennsylvania Railroad Pass, Lancaster Division, Hess and Flinn's Station, 1882

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:53:22 +0000

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"Pennsylvania Rail Road, Lancaster Division, 1882. Pass ________. To Hess & Flinn's Station, the cheapest furniture and upholstery house in the city. No. 148-150 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. Hess & Flinn."

This advertising trade card is a clever parody of a railroad pass (for examples of the real thing, see below for Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pass, 1908 and Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pass, 1909). Instead of authorizing travel over a railroad line, however, it invited potential customers to visit Hess & Flinn's furniture store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during the year 1882.

For another Hess & Flinn trade card, see Hess and Flinn, Dealers in All Kinds of Household Furniture, Lancaster, Pa. (below).

Visit Our Sunday-School Air Port

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:25:44 +0000

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Visit our Sunday-School Air Port; come on a glorious flight
Far to the lands of the Bible, shining in radiant light.
Straight through the heaven of beauty bathed in the sunshine of love,
Come on a tour of the Bible all other journeys above!
Airships are waiting and ready, the pilots are steady and true;
Off we are starting next Sunday, and here is a ticket for you!

Handwritten at the bottom: "Zion Lutheran Sunday School, E. Petersburg, Penna., October 27, 1929."

Printed on the other side: "Here's your pass for the take-off next Sunday!"

Handwritten address on the other side: "Misses Stella and Martha Weaver, R.D. #1, Manheim, Penna."

Postmarked: East Petersburg, Pa., Oct 23, 1929.

Thanksgiving Railway Pass, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 24-30, 1935

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:27:18 +0000

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Pass issued in 1935 by The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMER&L. Co.), which operated streetcar lines in Milwaukee until the 1950s.

"T. M. E. R. & L. Co. Within the single fare areas of Milwaukee and Racine only. Good from 5:00 a.m. Sunday until 5:00 a.m. the following Sunday. Pass must be shown on demand. Not good on Wisc. Motor Bus Lines. $1 weekly pass. 48. Thanksgiving, November 28. 88697. S. B. Way, president."

Iowa State Fair Pass, Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 1885

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:55:56 +0000

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"Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Iowa, September 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Complimentary Pass: H. H. Harris, Lady, a/c C.B.&Q. R.Rd. Number 539. John R. Shaffer, secretary. Wm. T. Smith, president."

Texas Centennial Exposition Pass, Dallas, 1936

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:40:08 +0000

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"Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas, extends to Mildred Zahn, Resettlement Administration, the courtesy of free admission to the gates of the exposition from June 6th to Nov. 29th, 1936. W. A. Webb, general manager. 1543."

As Wikipedia explains, "The Texas Centennial Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas (USA) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836. . . . The exposition was credited for buffering Dallas from the Great Depression, creating over 10,000 jobs and giving a $50 million boost to the local economy."

Sadly, William Alfred Webb, the general manager whose signature appears on the pass, died two months after the exposition opened.

Mildred Zahn, the recipient of the pass, worked for the Resettlement Administration, which was "a New Deal U.S. federal agency that, between April 1935 and December 1936, relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government."

Free Pass to the Buddy Deane Hop

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:17:01 +0000

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"Free pass when presented at the door the night of the Buddy Deane Hop. All we ask in return is that you tell your friends about the Hop of the Year."

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Winston "Buddy" Deane was the host of the Buddy Deane Show, which was a popular teen dance show that aired in Baltimore from 1957 to 1964. If you're familiar with the John Waters film (and later musical) Hairspray, then you may know that the Buddy Deane Show was the basis for the film's Corny Collins Show.

Deane was also the disc jockey at record hops in Maryland and Pennsylvania during the late 1950s and early 1960s. These were advertised as a "Buddy Deane Hop" or the "Hop of the Year," and they were often sponsored by school and community groups as fundraising events. In the years following the release of the original Hairspray movie (1988), Deane deejayed again, this time for middle-aged fans at record hops in Baltimore. Buddy Deane passed away in 2003 at the age of seventy-eight.

Steven Bros. Circus Permit to Kiss the Big Elephant

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:01:05 +0000

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Stevens Bros. Circus Special Permit
This permit entitles holder to kiss the big elephant's ass. Matinee performance only. Subject to federal tax. Issued by ________. Stevens Bros. Circus.

An advertisement that appeared in the Circus Report, June 26, 1976, p. 17, suggests how humorous permit cards like this may have been used: "Moochers Circus Pass. A few years back all billers and lithographers ahead of a circus carried these moocher passes for those 'pain in the neck' yahoos they ran into each day. They were also great to bring 'know-it-alls' down a peg. If you never saw one of these gems, they read 'Circus pass entitles the holder to Kiss the Great Big Elephant, etc. etc.' Nice business card stock, just a small supply."