Postcard: Las Plumas on the Western Pacific Railway
- Title
- Postcard: Las Plumas on the Western Pacific Railway
- Accession Number
- 2023.58.2.13
- Accession Date
- April 22, 2023
- Accession Creator
- Samantha Mora
- Depositor
- Found in collection
- Description
- A postcard sent to Alice Crain Hawkins. It is unclear who sent the letter but it can be assumed it was one of her children. It is known that Ansel did not send the postcard as he is mentioned in the note. The postcard depicts Las Plumas on the Western Pacific Railway. It shows the Power House of the GWP Company near Oroville, California. It is unknown what year the postcard was written but the postdate does show it was sent on May 1.
- Storage Location
- Archives: collection case
- Text
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Sunday
Dear Mother: I [illegible] in Colusa for awhile today, and getting along fine.
I guess people around home are very busy.
Tell Ansel I will send the $9.00 when I come back here. The P.O. is not open on Sundays and I can’t get a money order, will write a letter soon.
The hobo J.S.
Mrs. J. L. Hawkins
Greer,
Po #3 So. Car.
- Relation
- Hawkins family collection
- Item sets
- Hawkins family collection