Postcard with child's early attempts at writingIn 1925, John E. Mangelsdorf was four years old. The steamer boat had only been in operation for one year, sailing passengers on the Hudson River between New York City and Albany, New York.

We’ll update this post if we find any information on why child was traveling and with whom. The following year, this Mangelsdorf family moved to Honolulu.

According to Wikipedia, the AH was in service from 1924 to 1977, when it burned and sank. She was over 300 feet long and able to carry over 3000 passengers.

“The steamer’s propulsion system consisted of four Scotch marine boilers delivering steam to an inclined triple expansion engine that turned a crankshaft attached to feathering paddle-wheels on the port and starboard sides. She was the last of the great Day Line “side-wheelers”, and the last of her kind to ply the Hudson River.”