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National Postal Museum
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1995-2010
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 16-006
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of meeting minutes, agendas, member lists, notes, memoranda, and correspondence relating to the National Postal Museum's Council of Philatelists.
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United States. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Brett, George W.
Bureau Issues Association
United States. Post Office Dept.
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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
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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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1993, 1999
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5 audiotapes (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9570
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These interviews of Dyar family members by Marc E. Epstein, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, and Pamela M. Henson, Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, covers their family; youth; education in Washington, D.C.; careers; collecting interests; reminiscences of their parents and grandparen...
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1866-1968
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0.49 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder, 1 map case folder. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Philately
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Philately forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Hoffman, John Nathan, 1923-1982
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circa 1890s-1960s
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3 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1125
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of poster stamps (non-denominated stamp-sized miniature posters) advertising or commemorating a large variety of places, events, products, causes, and miscellaneous other subjects, including many international subjects. Some of the stamps are in albums or album sleeves.
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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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O'Shaughnessy, Kevin J.
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circa 1960-1979
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369 postage stamps
- Collection ID:
- EEPA.2007-005
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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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Kenneth X. Robbins Collection & Papers
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Robbins, Kenneth X.
- Dates:
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undated
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150 Maps (approximate count)
1,300 Color postcards (approximate count)
6 Books
60 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1990.01
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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.
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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.
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Goodman, Wally, 1922-2008
Picher, William Stanton, d. 1981
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1940-1982
- Size:
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1.2 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.goodwalt
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of Wally Goodman and William Stanton Picher measure 1.2 linear feet and date from 1940-1982. Included are correspondence, printed material, subject file concerning Christo's "Running Fence" project, business records, art works, notes, and photographs.