Name/Title
Pony Express Celebration Photos (2), 1923Entry/Object ID
P354.18022.122Description
Pony Express Celebration Photos, 1923. b/w. Two photos of the St. Joseph 1923 Pony Express Celebration.
Top Photo: Man mounted on horse, taken in front of Pony Express Stables. Sign "Pikes Peak Stable" on building. Man in ten-gallon hat holding mail bag stands beside horse, Another man in top hat in front at right. dated 8/31/23. (same as 95.1P.706) News Photo, News-Press.
Headline: "Pony Express Race Started This Morning"
Caption: Postmaster Elliot Marshall with the mail pouch that is being sent by Pony Express to San Francisco. Robert Lee Shepheard mounted on his mare, Beauty, ready to start on the first lap of the race. Background is the old Pikes Peak Stable where the Pony Express riders of 1860 started."
Bottom photo: Scene at Missouri River bank of men on horses waiting on barge, a few spectators nearby. A tugboat has pulled up to the barge. News photo, News-Press, August 31, 1923. Caption: Rider Shepherd on barge being ferried across the Missouri river from the foot of Francis street. This is in accordance with history, for the Pony Express riders of 1860 crossed the Missouri by ferry. The steamboat R. J. Stewart, with Captain Stewart in command, is towing the barge. (same as 95.19.707)
For Original digital scan see History 20 CDMade/Created
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1923Place
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St. JosephState/Province
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Thirty-Eighth Street & Frederick Avenue, Pony Express Celebration, 1923Relationships
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Max HabeckerProvenance
Notes
Photographs taken in c. 1920's by Max Habecker, St. Joseph News-Press Photographer, affixed in photo album.