Description: Owney was a stray dog who wandered into the Albany, New York, post office in 1888. The clerks let him stay the night, and he fell asleep on a pile of empty mailbags. Owney was attracted to the texture or scent of the mailbags and began to follow them, first onto mail wagons and…
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Description: This is an illustration of Owney, the dog who was the unofficial mascot of the Railway Mail Service in the 1890s. Owney is shown posed on a U.S. mail sack. Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Geography: USA Date: 1895 Collection: Owney Collection Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?t=5&id=1949&q=A.2006-46 Repository: National Postal…
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