Boston Portland PS Packet Company Owney tag. Not all of Owney’s mail-related travels were on trains. Owney received this baggage check token from a sidewheel paddle steamboat. The Steamer Tremont, operated by the Portland Steam Packet Company, carried passengers and mail between Portland, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts.

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