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![Owney's Tags:
"Owney... now wears a big bunch [of tags]. When he jogs along, they jingle like the bells on a junk wagon."
-- Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 4, 1894
As Owney traveled the country, mail clerks and others added medals and tags to his collar. These trinkets showed the many different places and people Owney visited. Some tags were made just for him.
Over the years, Owney received hundreds of tags. From time to time, postal employees would remove his new tags and set them aside to make room for more. After Owney's death, many of the tags were sent to the Post Office Department in Washington, DC. They are now kept in the National Postal Museum.](/Graphlib/GraphData15.nsf/Images/2015_DC_SIPM_Moving_0160/$File/MOVING_150525_13.JPG) |
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![Owney's Travels:
From the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, trains carrying people, cargo, and mail covered most of the United States. Railway mail clerks worked long, hard hours in train cars, sorting and processing the bulk of the nation's mail. Owney traveled with his clerk friends on many of the trains, receiving tags form [sic] clerks, businesses, and individuals along the way.](/Graphlib/GraphData15.nsf/Images/2015_DC_SIPM_Moving_0160/$File/MOVING_150525_26.JPG) |
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