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And there is this one!
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look at all of them we want a servey of all the great hats
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Personal favorite
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There are more
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This one is a honey
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or this one
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Ok lets have a review of the hats and vote for bet hat.
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A more recent photo of the American Legation in Korea

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A more recent photo of the American Legation in Korea
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American Legation in Korea
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    Aaah this one looks like one of the scenes out of Mr Sunshine

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Can anyone read the writing on the postcard below?

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This is a Steamship in Shimonoseki Harbor where Eugene left for the USA after he was put in handcuffs.
This is the time line of the whole sad story on America’s deplorable behavior during that era. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Straight/timeline_text.html
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    Wow, this timeline is great! You are a much better researcher than I 👏🏼

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Go like the wind Eugine
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    I’ll guess this was a steerage ticket, do you know? Or it really is just a tax? The only ticket price reference I’ve found anywhere is that a first class steamship ticket from Pusan to Inchon cost US $17.50 in 1883 and the trip took 30 (!) hours. But to travel it overland took ten days. 😲

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      How much did it cost for Eugene to travel from New York to Japan? The answer is I do not know, The lowest possible price was 25.00 in the most horrible conditions. Workers from Asia arranged to pay their future employers back the price of the passage at 300% interest. First Class round trip was $524. Automobiles cost less than that, Special Fare (?) was about $250. So if Eugene bought a ticket one way it was about $124.00, that is a guess. The reason that this is a state secret is Ticket Agents didn’t always charge their clients the same rates. I have found loads of menus and other ephemera but no tickets that show a price paid. Also isn’t so much a ticket as it was a contract of passage. All the tickets say is that so and so paid the fare. I don’t give up on things like this ( a blessing and a curse), I am calling the maririme inst. tomorrow. He may have worked his way across as a merchant seaman.

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        Wow! So interesting! So much, so interesting! On Eugene’s way home, I guess he would have traveled as a prisoner under the auspices of the Marines. And you’re right, back to Korea probably as a merchant seaman. This is so great! There’s soooooo much info on transatlantic travel but look how hard you’re having to work for this!

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The largest ships in the history of the shipping company were the two 13,639-tonne Mongolia and Manchuria , which were purchased 1903 in the unfinished state by the Atlantic Transport Line and put into service in 1904.
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At the time the Pacific Mail Steamship Company had regular bimonthly trips between San Francisco and Hong Kong with a stop in Yokohama Japan. The voyage took about five weeks.Crews were composed of a majority of Chinese men with American ship officers.

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