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lot # 14784 - Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika - Besonderheiten
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika - Besonderheiten: 1847 (Oct). Folded letter from Detroit, Michigan to
1847 (Oct). Folded letter from Detroit, Michigan to Washington DC with 'Buffalo N.Y. D T 15" oval and 'Steamboat" scroll handstamps (both in blue). Handwritten message.
Send to Corcoran & Riggs, a brokerage house founded in 1836, became a bank in 1840. Designated as the capitol city's only federal depository in 1844, the bank financed Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph the following year, and loaned the US government $16 million in 1847 to finance the Mexican War.
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