Robidoux Hotel Placemat With Pony Express Stamps on the Back, 1960
Entry/Object ID
AM1986.9.26
Scope and Content
Robidoux Hotel Placemat With Pony Express Stamps on the Back, 1960. On the front of the placemat is a mural by George Gray. The mural is the map of the Pony Express trail. It was hanging in the Pony Express "Bar" N of Hotel Robidoux, St. Joseph Missouri. It was unveiled by Mrs. Franklyn Delano Roosevelt on October 15, 1938.
On the back of the placemat is the Pony Express Centennial stamp, the Pony Express with the picture of a pony and it says Pony West under the pony. The stamp is blue. There is also a Pony Express stamp that is in a red outlined oblong that reads Pony Express Rec'd Sacramento. Another stamp is a rectangle with a pony express rider on his pony. The stamp is four cents and is 1860-1960.