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Souvenir postal card, Meyer's Hotel, Hoboken: Brooklyn Bridge from New York. Postmarked Hoboken, April 18, 1899.
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Souvenir postal card: Brooklyn Bridge from New York; imprinted Meyer's Hotel, Hudson & 3d Sts., Hoboken, N.J. J.H. Timken, Prop. Postmarked: Hoboken, April 18, 1899; two-cent stamp. Color vignette on front, 3-1/2" high x 5-9/16" wide.
No publisher indicated. A souvenir (or PMC) with the unusual connection of a New York view (without Hoboken in it) with a local hotel. An artist's bird's-eye view of downtown Manhattan and the bridge.
Text in German, untranslated, but Central Park and Grant's Tomb are mentioned. Sent to a Mr. Arthur Gunther c/o The Gunther Milling Co., San Antonio, Tex.
J. Henry Timken was the proprietor of this well-known hotel at Third and Hudson Streets.
2011.005.0164
2011.005
Lukacs, Claire
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Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.
1899 - 1899
Date(s) Created: 1899 Date(s): 1899
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Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2011-07-07