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Back side of ordinary cover: "air mail in infancy North to South America" 6 days for about 5,000 sea miles. North to South American airmail might have been in its infancy but the Dutch had been continent hopping flights from Europe to what is now Indonesia for some time already. Its an ordinary cover but it spoke to me.
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I would like to know how it found it's way to Miss Helen Driscoll with such a skimpy address. Post office workers seemed to go the extra mile in those days.
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"Santa Clara" is a ship of the Grace Line.
Post Office would know when it was in harbor and would hand the letter off to the Purser of the ship.
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Roy, very nice..i like the United Fruit covers.
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If you are big land owner and fruit producer in Chile, everyone knows your name.
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A shame that the letter was not with the envelope .
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Not ordinary! A great cover! About that skimpy address: I agree that postal workers were, back then, professionals compared to the underpaid gig workers today. Anyway, in 1949 my family moved from New York State to New Mexico, and my father, the recent winner of a couple prestigious editorial awards, went to work as the editor of the local weekly newspaper, the Silver City Enterprise. A few weeks after he started his new job he received a letter from someone who addressed it to "Bob Ingraham/New Mexico". Granted, New Mexico has never had a large population, but that was kinda amazing!
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Bob:
It's amazing to see that some letters of the past were delivered by the post office, based upon the absolutely illegible handwriting!
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I saw this cover in a dollar box at Hartford and for some reason it appealed to me. on the front it says %Santa Clara Grace line, its from Queens, N.Y. to Valparaiso , Chile.
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Back side of ordinary cover: "air mail in infancy North to South America" 6 days for about 5,000 sea miles. North to South American airmail might have been in its infancy but the Dutch had been continent hopping flights from Europe to what is now Indonesia for some time already. Its an ordinary cover but it spoke to me.
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I would like to know how it found it's way to Miss Helen Driscoll with such a skimpy address. Post office workers seemed to go the extra mile in those days.
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re: A ordinary cover
"Santa Clara" is a ship of the Grace Line.
Post Office would know when it was in harbor and would hand the letter off to the Purser of the ship.
Roy
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Roy, very nice..i like the United Fruit covers.
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Quite possible related to:
Fruits from Chile
If you are big land owner and fruit producer in Chile, everyone knows your name.
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A shame that the letter was not with the envelope .
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Not ordinary! A great cover! About that skimpy address: I agree that postal workers were, back then, professionals compared to the underpaid gig workers today. Anyway, in 1949 my family moved from New York State to New Mexico, and my father, the recent winner of a couple prestigious editorial awards, went to work as the editor of the local weekly newspaper, the Silver City Enterprise. A few weeks after he started his new job he received a letter from someone who addressed it to "Bob Ingraham/New Mexico". Granted, New Mexico has never had a large population, but that was kinda amazing!
Bob
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Bob:
It's amazing to see that some letters of the past were delivered by the post office, based upon the absolutely illegible handwriting!
David
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