LIRR
BRASS BAGGAGE TAGS
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Affixed to a rider’s luggage in the old days.
The express agent would put it on the bags with a leather strap. Upon
receipt of your bag(s) at your destination, the express agent would
remove the tag for reuse for another customer on another train.
American Railway Supply Co., was in business from 1891 to the 1920s.
Info: Brendan Manley
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Baggage Tag South Side Rail Road
of Long Island
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Brass Baggage Tag
Collection: Brendan Manley
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Brass Baggage Tag
Collection: John Fusto
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LIRR baggage tag #18240
Archive: Carol Mills |
LIRR RPO baggage tag - American Railway Supply Co., NY |
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Penn Station to Garden City Baggage Tag
Collection: Brendan Manley
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LIRR baggage tag #A2811 34th St. to Islip and reverse. Once the
luggage arrived it would
be used by the Agent (in this case at Islip) to return baggage going
back to 34th Street. |
Penn Station to Easthampton baggage tag #45545
Archive: Carol Mills |
Brass Baggage Tag Flatbush Ave. to Great
River 1/2008 Collection: Brendan Manley
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LIRR Brass Pay Check Tag
To the best of my knowledge, it was used to pay employees out on the
line (perhaps as a "chit" to be cashed in somewhere where cash was
available)...maybe a a major station where the ticket agent had copious
amount of the green stuff and could pay you out of his "cash drawer" from
selling tickets, etc, or maybe a major terminal like Jamaica, where
cash was disbursed to outlying terminals for different purposes. Info:
Robert Myers
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34th Street to Easthampton baggage tag #45649
Archive: Carol Mills
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Ronkonkoma to 34th St. and reverse side #22673 Brass Baggage
Tag Collection: Brendan Manley
L-I.R.R. baggage tag #3707 1875-1883
Stamped Hoole Bagg Check Co |
LIRR (L-I.R.R.) baggage tag # 6570 1875-1883
Stamped Hoole Bagg Check Co
Archive: Art Single
Edmund Hoole started making baggage checks in the late
1860s. He
continued to manufacture baggage checks until his company was
absorbed by The American Railway Supply Co. in 1893.
Source: New York City Public Library |
Baggage Tags c.1962-1963 Archive: Art Single
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LIRR
Baggage Tag Checks |
Baggage tag and Customer Duplicate
Check - Bicycle Easthampton to Watermill
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Baggage tag and Customer Duplicate Check -
Penn Station to Watermill |
Baggage tag - From blank to Penn Station
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Baggage tag - From blank to Penn Station back
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Baggage tag B blank From-To 9/08/1944
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Baggage Tag - Wantagh 2/05/1949
Photos/Archive: Brad Phillips unless noted |