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2 Rations Bread Fort Dalles
| Issuer | Fort Dalles Post Bakery |
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| Year | 1850-1867 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress text on pink cardboard ground, enclosed within a decorative border of repeated foliate and cross ornaments. The issuer name and denomination appear in bold serif type of varying sizes, with the subordinate legend in smaller spaced capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | FORT DALLES POST BAKERY. GOOD FOR 2 RATIONS BREAD. |
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Fort Dalles, established on the Columbia River in present-day Oregon in 1850, was a critical U.S. Army supply depot serving emigrant traffic along the Oregon Trail. The Post Bakery operated as an official quartermaster function, and these bread ration tokens — issued on pink cardboard rather than struck metal — represent a pragmatic field solution to accounting for individual soldier rations before standardized commissary scrip existed at the federal level.
No central records appear to survive documenting the full issuance run, which makes precise dating within the 1850–1867 window impossible. Fort Dalles was decommissioned in 1867, giving the series its hard terminus.