New Jersey Midland Rail Yard Owney tag

Owney, American, c. 1888 - 1897 · 1888-1897

Owney received this baggage check token that indicates a trip on New Jersey’s Midland Railway Company from Brooklyn, New York on an annex boat. Annex boats carried passengers, luggage, and mail between New York City, Brooklyn, and New Jersey railway stations. An annex boat for the Midland Railway landed at Jersey City, New Jersey. The token was manufactured by L.G. Tillotson & Company. Luther Gene Tillotson was an English immigrant who became an electrician and an important manufacturer of telegraph machinery in the United States. The company produced a number of other products, including railway baggage tokens.