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Brees' Express Receipt
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Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near the top of the document.
November 8, 1860
Hart, Printer and Stationer
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W0143O1
WHi 62605
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