The Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s London Offices
Posted: March 16th, 2014 | 2 Comments »Sadly I don’t have a date for this photograph from the London Met Archives but it is the London offices of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company on 21-24 Cockspur Street, near Trafalgar Square offering services to California, Japan, China and round the world. Pacific Mail was an American steamship line that started operations in 1848 transporting mail and passengers. Their trans-Pacific services were started in 1867 connecting San Francisco to Yokohama, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It was a popular line, due to lower costs, with Japanese and Chinese immigrants to the USA.
Interesting picture. It looks like the building on the far left is still there, but the steamship company building has been replaced.
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Paul,
The new “Pacific Exchange” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum has lots of interesting items, many of which you can see online: http://postalmuseum.si.edu/pacificexchange/exhibit.html
Bea