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United States Postal Service
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undated
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1 Envelope
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7252
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
The stamps are on an envelope postmarked Santa Fe, New Mexico, dated April 13, 1977, and addressed to William C. Sturtevant. The pottery on the stamps is from Acoma, San Ildefonso, Hopi, and Sia.
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Merrill, William
- Dates:
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September 25, 1980
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8 Envelopes
19 Stamps
2 Slides
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7301
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Stamps are on first-day-issue envelopes postmarked Spokane, Washington. The masks included are of the Bellacoola, Tlingit, and Bellabella. Also included are two slides that show an exhibit of the stamps.
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circa 1960-1979
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369 Postage stamps
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2007-005
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
This collection contains 369 African postage stamps from the post-independence period (circa 1960s-1970s). The stamps depict African leaders, traditional African art and artists, cultural performances, flora and fauna, and prominent visitors to the continent, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Pope Paul VI. A majority of the stamps come from Ghana, Togo, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. Other countries represented include Gabon, Mali, Cameroon, Tunisia, Zambia, Morocco, Dahomey (now Benin), Libya, Gambia, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Upper Volta (now Burkina-Faso), Mauritius, South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Uganda, Egypt, Sudan and the Comoros.
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1965-1987
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 15-349
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of curatorial records created by Reidar Norby, Curator of the National Philatelic Collection, 1966-1988. Materials include correspondence, status reports, exhibition files, and journal articles.
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United States. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Bureau Issues Association
United States. Post Office Dept.
Sloane, George B.
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[189-?]-1940
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27 Volumes (approximately 6,900 p.; 1 index v., 29 cm. +)
- Collection ID:
- SIL-NPM.XXXX-0012
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Libraries
The collection consists chiefly of hand-written notes made by Southgate on a wide range of postal history topics and related matters, generally on lined or graph paper measuring 25 x 15 cm. or smaller, for keeping in triple-post binders. Some of the notes were made in "Lefax" or other commercially-available notebooks. The collection includes numerous mounted newsclippings, brochures, and excerpted articles from philatelic journals, as well as statistical data, advertisements, copies of correspondence, and diagrams made by Southgate to illustrate plate variations, etc.
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Cooke, Hereward Lester
- Dates:
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1969
- Size:
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3.44 Cubic feet ((7 legal document boxes, 1 flatbox))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2002.0031
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Hereward Lester Cooke (1916-1975), a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, was extremely interested in the moon landing as well as in stamp collecting. He acquired over five hundred stamps relating to the 1969 lunar landing from countries including: Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, China, C...
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Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
- Dates:
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1920s, 1996, undated
1996
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box, 4 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1261
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection consists of two photographic prints of Howard University scenes, photographed in the 1920s by Addison N. Scurlock, one entitled "Sunlight and Shadow," the other entitled "Reared Against the Eastern Sky." In addition, there are a framed presentation piece containing a reproduction of Addison N. Scurlock's portrait of Ernest E. Just and a...
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Hadsel, Chris
- Dates:
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circa 1970-1999
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24 Postcards (col.)
2 Prints (b&w.)
39 Postage stamps (col.)
2 Letters (framed)
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2012-015
- Repository:
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Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
The collection includes 29 postage stamps from the Republic of Mali, (24) color postcards, (2) 8 x 10 inch black and white photogaphs, and (2) framed thank you letters to "Terri" (Ambassador Fred Hadsel). Two postcards (1970, 1972) are to Winifred Hadsel, two have notes describing the location/date (1972-1973), while the rest are blank. The postcar...
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Kenneth X. Robbins Collection & Papers
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Robbins, Kenneth X.
- Dates:
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undated
- Size:
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150 Maps (approximate count)
1,300 Color postcards (approximate count)
6 Books
60 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1990.01
- Repository:
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Items pertaining to the spiritual, economic, and artistic history of modern India and its princely states. Parts include: fiscal philately from the princely states of India, documents pertaining to Indian medicine (6 linear ft.), paintings, medals and coins, map of Baroda and other princely states, postcards, the collector's research files, genealo...
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Smith, Loretta Thomsen (collector)
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1900-1970.
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0147
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Two scrapbooks containing postcards, stamps, and hand-written information about various states of the United States. The initial pages in volume 1 contain information about the early history of postcards in Europe and the United States.
