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Photographer: Photocopy Of Microfilm Of Newspaper
Taken: May 21, 1860
Caption: Pony Express Ad (Sacramento Union, May 21, 1860, p. 4)
Additional Description: This ad in the Sacramento Union (click on picture for a better view) advertises delivery of messages from San Francisco to New York in eight days by the Pony Express of the "Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express". As noted, "Letters will be received at San Francisco until 4 o'clock P.M. each day of departure. Office, Alta Telegraph Office, 153 Montgomery Street, corner Merchant Street."
Submitted: July 30, 2010, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p120124
File Size: 1.960 Megabytes

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