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Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line For Transportation of Freight to and from Philadelphia , Baltimore , New York , Boston - 3 Wagon Pods connect to make boat for water transportation
82 Feet long portable boats were built in three sections with each section watertight
$750
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Pittsburgh PA, Thomas Borbidge, 1850, Letter Sheet , Letter
1850, Great condition, paper hole at wax seal location.
1850 Scott No.1 Pittsburgh PA Letter Sheet Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line Hauling Freight Overland Folded Cover March 9 1850 Scott No.1 canceled Pittsburgh PA Letter Sheet printed circular , and one page letter dated march 8 enclosed for Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line For the Transportation of Freight to and from Philadelphia , Baltimore , New York ,Boston.
The Line was a private shipping line that carried freight along the Pennsylvania Canal system from Pittsburgh east to Philadelphia, and then to New York , Baltimore and Boston and west to Cincinnati.
The 82 Feet long portable boats were built in three sections with each section watertight. The section locked together to form a complete boat, but were hauled separately – while still holding their freight
– for overland transportation, either by train or teams of horses or oxen to the next water route on the canal system. Folded letter sheet good condition with paper loss a wax seal location, the paper still adhere to wax. Very interesting hauling and Transportation boat section for delivery via overland.
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