Photograph of Railway Post Office mascot Owney and mail carrier
Object Details
- Date
- c. 1895
- Description
- Owney was a mongrel dog who became the unofficial mascot of the Railway Mail Service in the 1890s. He traveled on mail trains all through the United States and even made a trip around the world on mail steamers. He is shown here posed with an unidentified mail carrier.
- Photographer: Unknown
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Credit line
- National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Object number
- A.2008-35
- Type
- Photographs
- Medium
- paper; photo-emulsion
- Record ID
- npm_A.2008-35
Owney was a mongrel dog who became the unofficial mascot of the Railway Mail Service in the 1890s. He traveled on mail trains all through the United States and even made a trip around the world on mail steamers. He is shown here posed with an unidentified mail carrier.
Photographer: Unknown