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| Folder title: | 130 Philatelic Covers May 12, 1932 Alexandria Covers - Mas. Mem. Cachet |
| Date: | 02/26/1932 |
| Description: | Correspondence regarding cachets at the dedication of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria Virginia. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-05-06 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Covers |
| Folder title: | 130 Washington Bi-Cent Cachet |
| Date: | 07/28/1932 |
| Description: | Information regarding the marking of covers for this event. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 04-07-03 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Covers |
| Folder title: | 130.6 Philatelic Matters United States Defense Bases |
| Date: | 01/16/1941 |
| Description: | Requests for information regarding covers from United States Defense Bases. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-05-17 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; United States Army - Postal Service ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
| Folder title: | 130-D Philatelic Matters Philatelic Mail at Barrow Alaska August 15, 1938 |
| Date: | 06/03/1938 |
| Description: | Due to a commemorative marker to be erected in Barrow Alaska, Authorization is given to hire additional employees to take care of the cancellation needed of commemorative postage stamps on Philatelic covers bearing a cachet in connection with the airplane crash of Will Rogers and Weley Post. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-05-12 |
| Subject(s): | Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Covers |
| Original source: | Third Assistant Postmaster General |
| Folder title: | 170 Postmarks |
| Date: | 06/21/1951 |
| Description: | Postmarking not acceptable for Philatelic purposes. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 03-06-04 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Covers |
| Folder title: | 175.5 Highway Post Office |
| Date: | 01/27/1941 |
| Description: | Discussion of how to obtain and rules for First Day Covers for the initial run of Highway Post Offices around the country. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 03-07-15 |
| Subject(s): | Highway Post Office ; Covers |
| Folder title: | 175.6 Post Offices First Day of Sale MacArthur W. VA. April 15, 1942 |
| Date: | 03/27/1942 |
| Description: | Correspondence on philatelic matters regarding the opening of the MacArthur, West Virginia Post Office April 15, 1942. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 03-07-14 |
| Subject(s): | Post Office Stations and Branches ; Covers |
| Folder title: | 210.3 Stamps, Books of Jan. 1935 to Dec. 1947 |
| Date: | 01/04/1935 |
| Description: | Suggestions by the public and the Post Office Department on the size, quality of stamps in booklets and the coloring of the booklet covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 04-05-07 |
| Subject(s): | Postage Stamps |
| Folder title: | 210.3-3 Stamps, Postage Books of Parafin Interleaves iof Sticking on Stamps Jan., 1946 to |
| Date: | 03/04/1946 |
| Description: | Suggestions from the public on how to improve the way the wax paper is used in books of stamps. Vending machine covers discussed in 1968. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 04-05-09 |
| Subject(s): | Postage Stamps |
| Folder title: | 210.36 Stamps, Postage International Reply International and Domestic Remittance Remittance Coupons |
| Date: | 05/03/1911 |
| Description: | Suggestions from the public regarding substitutes for money orders which they consider costly for small amounts such as First Day Covers. The Post Office Department advises substitutes, small amounts of stamps are too costly. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 04-05-12 |
| Subject(s): | Foreign Mail ; Postal History |
| Folder title: | 210.7-B Location of First Day of Sale |
| Date: | 10/18/1933 |
| Description: | The pros and cons regarding first day of issue locations. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 04-01-12 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) |
| Folder title: | 99's Powder Puff Derby |
| Date: | 03/02/1966 |
| Description: | Request for a cover cancellation in regard to the Powder Puff Derby. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-02-17 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Cancellations - Postage Stamps |
| Folder title: | Blair House |
| Date: | 01/16/1964 |
| Description: | Regarding a Post Office Department display of First Day Covers to be located in Blair House. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-01-13 |
| Subject(s): | Exhibitions |
| Folder title: | C48 & C52 and 158 |
| Date: | 06/02/1967 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone numbers C48, C52 and 158. Five 35mm slides and seventeen copies of 8" x 10" black and white photographs of the Goethals memorial used in the design of Canal Zone 158. One 3 1/2" x 4" and two 8" x 8" copies of a photograph of Canal Zone 158. Two 3 1/2" x 4" copies of a photograph of Canal Zone C48. Five copies of photographs of Canal Zone views including Gorgas Hospital and the Commission Building. Three copies of the "Review" of 02/00/1967. Memorandum concerning the destruction of printing plates. Five copies of photographs of ceremonial canceling of covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone C40 ; Panama Canal Zone C52 ; Pa |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Publications ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-064 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Design |
| Folder title: | CA 151 File 2 of 2 |
| Date: | 09/09/1959 |
| Description: | Three copies of the 7/8" x 1 1/2" and four copies of the 2" x 3 3/8", this size was used to send to the media. Four copies of a photograph of this the stamp design on thick paper and two copies of a photograph of the stamp on photographic paper. One copy of a photograph of the Boy Scout badge used in the design. Eight photographs of scenes at a ceremony with Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and with the Director of Posts, Earl F. Unruh, showing a Cub Scout a sheet of the stamps. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design, issue and first day activities for this Canal Zone number 151. Letter from the United States Post Office Department asking for 50 first day covers to be used to give to officials attending the United States number 1145 first day ceremonies in Washington, D. C. Newspaper clippings and articles about this stamp. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 151 |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 30-03-023 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; First Day of Issue ; Boy Scouts |
| Folder title: | Cacheted Envelope Manufacturers (Cover Dealers) |
| Description: | A list of cacheted envelope manufacturers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Lists |
| Folder number: | 03-02-16 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Covers |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #6 Scott C36-C41 |
| Description: | Machine copies of photographs of Canal Zone C36-41 including full sheets and first day covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa |
| Includes: | Photographs |
| Folder number: | 30-03-052 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #8 Scott C36-C41 |
| Date: | 07/27/1964 |
| Description: | Lists of people receiving complimentary stamps, folders and covers. Nine captioned 4" x 5" photographs of student assistants processing orders for stamps. Eight 8" x 10" photographs of stamp order and cover processing individuals identified on reverse. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa |
| Includes: | Lists ; Correspondence ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 30-03-055 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Air Mail Permanent Series |
| Date: | 02/12/1965 |
| Description: | Two copies of the "Spillway" 06/04/1965 and one copy of 07/09/1965. Two 8" x 10" copies of photographs of two Canal Zone scenes. Four copies of an 8" x 10" photograph of the Acting Governor Harold R. Parfitt and others canceling covers. One each reduces photograph of C42-C47. Two 35mm slides of the seal of the Canal Zone and two of the Golden Anniversary Logo. Three 8"x10" copies of a photograph of the Golden Anniversary Logo. Five 8" x 10" and eighteen copies of a 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" photograph of C44, the size used to send to the media. Machine copy of first day cancellations and of unapproved stamp designs. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C42-C47. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone C42 ; Panama Canal Zone C43 ; Pa |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Photographs |
| Folder number: | 30-03-062 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Air Service (Jet) (Braniff) Canal Zone - Sao Paulo |
| Date: | 04/18/1960 |
| Description: | Press Release regarding the inauguration of jet service from Balboa, Canal Zone to Sao Paulo, Brazil on or about 04/27/1960 and the preparation and servicing of commemorative covers for this event. Machine copies of various stamps, covers and cachets, rubber stamp copy of cachet. Copy of Braniff Airways El Dorado Super Jet brochure in Spanish. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-123 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Inaugural Flight ; Braniff |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Air Service (Jet) Houston, Tex Balboa, Canal Zone 31 Oct 1963 |
| Description: | Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper clippings regarding the inauguration of jet service between Houston, Texas and Balboa, Canal Zone on or about 10/27/1963 and the preparation and servicing of commemorative covers for this event. Machine copies of various stamps and booklets. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 30-03-121 |
| Subject(s): | Braniff Airwars ; Postal Rates ; Inaugural Flight |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Air Service (Jet) Pangara - Canal Zone - Miami - Balboa - Lima, Buenos Aires |
| Date: | 04/22/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper clippings regarding the inauguration of jet service by Pan American - Grace Airways from Miami through Balboa, Canal Zone to Buenos Aires on or about 04/03/1960 and the preparation and servicing of commemorative covers for this event. Machine copies of various stamps and covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 30-03-122 |
| Subject(s): | Pan American Airways ; Pangara ; Inaugural Flight |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - air Services (Jet) PAA - Panagra - Miami - Balboa - Quito first Jet Flight 2 Jul 64 |
| Date: | 07/02/1964 |
| Description: | Memoranda noting the departure of the inaugural flight to Quito and the 929 first flight covers thereon. Machine copies of various stamps and covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-124 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Panagra ; Pan American Airways |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Cachet First Flight - Direct Air Service Panama to Los Angeles |
| Date: | 12/07/1951 |
| Description: | Memorandum concerning the shipment of philatelic covers with the authorizes special cachet and postmarked Balboa, Canal Zone. Impressions of the cancellation. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-156 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Pan American World Airways ; First Flight |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Cachet Trivoli Guest House 15 Nov 1956 |
| Date: | 11/02/1956 |
| Description: | Information regarding the special cachet used in commemoration of the semi-centennial of the Tivoli Guest House. Machine copies of the cachet. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Circulars ; Articles ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-157 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Press Releases ; Cancellations |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone - Dixiepex III 25 June 1960 |
| Date: | 03/23/1960 |
| Description: | Information concerning the Canal Zone Postal Service participation in Dixiepex III. Machine copies of covers and cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-04-002 |
| Subject(s): | Philately ; Cancellations ; Exhibitions |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone 50th Anniversary Scott C36-C41 Folder 7a |
| Date: | 04/14/1964 |
| Description: | Two photographs and a negative of Canal Zone C36-C41 first day covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa |
| Includes: | Photographs |
| Folder number: | 30-03-054 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; Covers ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Armed Forces Day-1959 Postal Cards UXC1 UX12 |
| Date: | 01/13/1959 |
| Description: | Notation of the number of items sold during Armed forces Day activities at Albrook Air Base. Machine copies of various covers cancelled at this event. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone UXC1 ; Panama Canal Zone UX12 |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-104 |
| Subject(s): | Postcards ; Air Mail ; Cancellations |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Cachet Billionth Ton 12 Dec 56 |
| Date: | 11/20/1956 |
| Description: | Press release and information about the celebration of the transit of the billionth ton of cargo to transit the canal. Machine copies of the special cachet used for this event. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-158 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Cancellations |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Cachets, Misc |
| Description: | Accession receipts and machine copies of covers and cachets. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Receipts |
| Folder number: | 30-03-159 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Cancellations |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Cancellation - Discontinuation of Railway Mail Service |
| Date: | 05/17/1954 |
| Description: | Information about the reestablishment of Railway Mail Service for one day in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the completion of the Panama Railroad. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Circulars ; Press Releases ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-161 |
| Subject(s): | Press Releases ; Cancellations ; Covers |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone First Day Covers - Misc |
| Description: | Accession receipts and machine copies of Canal Zone, United States and foreign stamps some with first day cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Receipts |
| Folder number: | 30-03-150 |
| Subject(s): | Foreign ; Covers ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Jet Service Branif: Canal Zone to Miami |
| Date: | 03/21/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence and publically released information regarding the special first flight cachet to be mailed from the Canal Zone aboard the first regular jet plane mail service started by Braniff Airways, 04/03/1960. Copy of a Braniff Airways brochure in Spanish. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Brochures ; Bulletins ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-153 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail Service ; Covers ; First Flight |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Publication: Canal Zone Postage Stamps |
| Description: | Machine copies of stamps and periodical and book covers. Newspaper clippings and articles about Canal Zone stamps. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Articles ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-136 |
| Subject(s): | Press Releases |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone Sample - Post Marks |
| Date: | 02/18/1957 |
| Description: | Memoranda concerning cancellations for several events. Machine copies of various cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-139 |
| Subject(s): | Covers |
| Folder title: | Canal Zone SNAFU: antartica (Byrd Expedition) & SS Jacob Ruppert |
| Date: | 11/01/1933 |
| Description: | Correspondence concerning the procedures for sending mail to Antarctica for cancellation at Little America. Acknowledgement of the authorization for the mail clerk aboard the S. S. Jacob Rupert who was specially commissioned a postal clerk for the operation of the Little America post office. Correspondence concerning the loss of mail meant to be sent to Valpariso, Chile to be loaded on the S. S. Jacob Rupert. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-03-126 |
| Subject(s): | Byrd ; Little America ; Antartica |
| Folder title: | Canceling Equipment and Traveling Mechanic |
| Date: | 06/04/1957 |
| Description: | Memoranda indicating the return of or requesting canceling equipment for First Day Ceremonies. A traveling mechanic also goes with the equipment when requested. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 04-02-06 |
| Subject(s): | Cancelling Machines ; Covers |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Cancellations - Philatelic 2 |
| Date: | 10/27/1961 |
| Description: | Correspondence pertaining to cancellations. Some of the contents in this file deal with patriotic covers involving the state of Ohio and its troops in the U.S. Civil War. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Cover Designs ; Lists |
| Folder number: | 01-03-11 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations (Philately) ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Cancelling Machines |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Christmas - 1968 |
| Date: | 10/15/1968 |
| Description: | Reports concerning post office issues during the Christmas season of 1968. The final report covers areas of Mail Volume, Manpower, Productivity, Logistics, Pacific Military Mail, Letter Mail, City Delivery. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Reports ; Guides ; Brochures ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-03-04 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Clerical Assistant for First Day Sale |
| Date: | 08/29/1969 |
| Description: | Requests for extra help for first day sales of new issues and copies of blank request forms (POD Form 31. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Forms |
| Folder number: | 02-01-12 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) ; Administration |
| Folder title: | Correspondence - Handstamps and Dies Supplies |
| Date: | 11/12/1958 |
| Description: | Hand stamps used on first day covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 06-04-06 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Cancelling Machines |
| Folder title: | Covers Cancel on Unofficial Trip Around World (Inspection Report) |
| Date: | 11/19/1965 |
| Description: | Reports dealing with improper post markings of envelopes carried "around the world". Palm Springs, California - Honolulu, Hawaii. Approximately, 1,000 pieces were processed. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-04-25 |
| Subject(s): | United States Postal Inspection Service ; Postage Stamps ; Covers |
| Folder title: | CZ 110 |
| Date: | 08/17/1937 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning production and issue of envelopes to be given without charge to customers wishing first day of issue cancels for the .14 cent Sibert stamp. File contains a sample envelope with cache. Correspondence with directions for processing first day covers; to media stamp editors; instructions for applying rubber stamp images; a copy of impressions of the rubber stamp cachet; and a copy of the press release. Copies of articles published about the Sibert stamp and first day of issue. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 110 |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-003 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations ; Public Relations ; Cachets |
| Folder title: | CZ 113 |
| Date: | 01/30/1939 |
| Description: | Page containing two cropped photographs and a picture of the stamp cut from an unknown newspaper of Canal Zone stamp Scott number 113. List of American Newspaper philatelic departments taken from "Stamps" of 08/26/1939. Correspondence regarding the first day of issue and sales for CZ Scott number 113. Copy of correspondence with Mrs. Helen O. Williamson, widow of colonel Sydney B. Williamson pictured on Canal Zone 113. Correspondence to media. Memorandum to the photographer with photographs as examples of size photographs to make for media. Biography of Colonel Williamson. Newspaper clipping about this stamp issue. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 113 |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Lists ; Memorandumss |
| Folder number: | 30-03-004 |
| Subject(s): | Covers ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | CZ 146 |
| Date: | 12/14/1948 |
| Description: | Correspondence concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone Scott number 146. Copy of the Bureau Specialist, July 1951 with article about this stamp. Fourteen photographs of laborers performing various tasks. Photograph of three local rate employees being presented first day covers. Canal Zone postal rate chart. Machine copies of design sketches. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 146 |
| Includes: | Magazines ; Photographs ; Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-017 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Construction ; Postal Rates |
| Folder title: | CZ 147 |
| Date: | 11/05/1954 |
| Description: | Thirty-two copies of a 2" x 2" photograph of Canal Zone Scott number 147, used to mail to media. Correspondence concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone Scott number 147 Copy of the Bureau Specialist magazine, January 1955 with an article about this stamp. Newspaper clippings about this stamp. Two copies of the Panama Canal Review, 02/04-1955. Captioned photographs with five different views the Bureau Director and two members of the Canal Zone Board viewing the printing of this stamp. Six copies of a photograph of a sketch of the stamp. Four captioned copies of a photograph of women processing first day covers. Machine copies of design sketches and Railway Post Office cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 147 |
| Includes: | Magazines ; Photographs ; Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 30-03-018 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Persons ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| Folder title: | CZ 148 |
| Date: | 11/01/1957 |
| Description: | Fifteen 2" x 3" copies, this size was used to send to the media, and one 4 1/2" x 7" copy of Canal Zone 148, the Gorgas Hospital Anniversary issue. Nine photographs of the Commemorative Service for the Gorgas Hospital Anniversary, three photographs of clerks processing first day covers, sixteen photographs of the hospital and surrounding area and two 75th Anniversary brochures. Photographs are captioned. Machine copies of the stamp photographs. Stenographer notebook with handwritten, running details of expenses and first day stamp sales |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 148 |
| Includes: | Notebooks ; Photographs ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-03-019 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; First Day of Issue ; Persons |
| Folder title: | CZ 148 |
| Date: | 06/12/1957 |
| Description: | Correspondence regarding the printing and issue of Canal Zone 148. Commemorative Service program with a photograph of the hospital that was used for the program. Canal Zone Postal Service Circular No. 1145, providing directions for the handling of first day of issue covers. Machine copies of cancellations. Newspaper clippings and articles concerning this stamp. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 148 |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Brochures ; Circulars ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-03-020 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | CZ 152 |
| Date: | 06/20/1960 |
| Description: | Four 2" x 2" copies of a photograph of Canal Zone number 152, this size was used to send to the media. One reduced image of the stamp (less than 1"), two copies of a photograph of the stamp cut to appear as perforated and mounted on a sheet of white paper, five copies of a photograph of a rejected design (model No. 2), One photograph, one picture clipped from a magazine, and five copies of photographs showing varied views of the Administration Building. Two copies of a captioned photograph and three captioned candid photographs of the Governor of the Canal Zone (W. A. Carter) canceling first day covers. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of this stamp. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 152 |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Correspondence ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-024 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; First Day of Issue ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| Folder title: | CZ 157 |
| Date: | 04/02/1962 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone number 157. Seven copies of photographs of Governor Fleming canceling first day covers. Newspaper clippings about this stamp. Machine copy of first day of issue cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 157 |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Blueprints ; Articles ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 30-03-033 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | CZ 163a |
| Date: | 10/09/1975 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of this booklet including booklet cover design. Machine copies of first day covers. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone 163a |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-03-038 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Booklet ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| Folder title: | CZ 20 |
| Date: | 05/04/1970 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone number U20. Machine copies of design sketches, copies of U20, and first day covers and cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone U20 |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-078 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Covers ; Cancellations |
| Folder title: | CZ C49a Booklet |
| Date: | 05/28/1971 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone numbers C49a. Machine copy of booklet covers, upgraded stationery, and First Day of Issue cancellations. Four First Day cancellations on stock cards. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone C49a |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-067 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; Booklet ; Design |
| Folder title: | CZ U18, U19 |
| Date: | 04/16/1969 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the issue of Canal Zone postal stationery U18 and U19. Machine copies envelopes, some have been post marked. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone U18 ; Panama Canal Zone U19 |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-03-076 |
| Subject(s): | Revalue ; Covers |
| Folder title: | CZ U20, UC14 |
| Date: | 11/17/1971 |
| Description: | Copies of letters of transmittal sending First Day Covers to various individuals |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone U20 ; Panama Canal Zone UC14 |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-03-077 |
| Subject(s): | Air Mail ; Covers |
| Folder title: | CZ U22 |
| Date: | 01/21/1976 |
| Description: | Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone postal stationery U22 and U19. Machine copies proposed design modifications. Envelopes and First Day of Issue.. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone U22 ; Panama Canal Zone U19 |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-083 |
| Subject(s): | Design ; Covers ; First Day of Issue |
| Folder title: | CZ U22, U23 |
| Description: | Contains accession receipts for examples of postal stationery that have been placed in the Postal Museum vault. Machine copies of envelopes. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone U22 ; Panama Canal Zone U23 |
| Includes: | Receipts |
| Folder number: | 30-03-084 |
| Subject(s): | Cancellations ; Revalue ; Covers |
| Folder title: | CZ UC 16 |
| Date: | 04/30/1975 |
| Description: | Memorandum to accompany the rubber stamp to be used on first day covers. Machine copies of the envelopes and cancellations. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Scott Number(s): | Panama Canal Zone UC16 |
| Includes: | Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 30-03-102 |
| Subject(s): | Revalue ; First Day of Issue ; Surcharge |
| Folder title: | Deep Freeze |
| Date: | 08/02/1957 |
| Description: | Material regarding First Day Covers during the U. S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica as a Department of Defense Project. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 03-06-11 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
| Folder title: | Deep Freeze |
| Date: | 09/12/1956 |
| Description: | Correspondence between the Post Office Department and individuals on philatelic matters concerning Operation Deep Freeze. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-06-13 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
| Folder title: | Deep Freeze 1969 - 1970 |
| Date: | 01/01/1969 |
| Description: | Operation Deep Freeze press releases regarding First Day Covers during the United States Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica as a Department of Defense Project. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 03-06-12 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; United States Navy - Postal Service |
| Original source: | United States Naval Support Force |
| Folder title: | First Day Cover Kit |
| Date: | 09/17/1958 |
| Description: | First Day Cover Kit sent to the Acting Directof of Post, Canal Zone Postal Service with cover letter. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles ; Speeches |
| Folder number: | 30-03-119 |
| Subject(s): | Covers ; Speech |
| Folder title: | General Counsel |
| Date: | 09/01/1954 |
| Description: | Correspondence and material pertaining to the law and legal issues concerning the Post Office Department. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-01-09 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Covers ; Postage Stamps |
| Folder title: | Highlights of American History as Recorded by U. S. Commerative Postage Stamps |
| Date: | 01/01/1933 |
| Description: | An offer to sell First Day Covers with a map showing where the commemorative event took place and when. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Maps |
| Folder number: | 05-03-42 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) |
| Original source: | C. Stephen Anderson |
| Folder title: | HPO and RPO Covers |
| Date: | 07/07/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence on the last and first day cancellations of Highway Post Offices and Railroad Mail Service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-04-13 |
| Subject(s): | Highway Postal Service ; Railroad Mail Service |
| Folder title: | Material Request for First Day Sales |
| Date: | 07/01/1964 |
| Description: | Blank request form (POD Form 31) for materials like rubber postmarking stamps etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Forms |
| Folder number: | 02-01-13 |
| Subject(s): | First Day Covers ; Cancelling Machines |
| Folder title: | Missile Mail (Experiment) #1 |
| Date: | 07/01/1959 |
| Description: | Rocket of Missile Mail - Letters from people who are requesting Missile Covers. Folder 1 of 3. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 05-02-17 |
| Subject(s): | Rocket (Missile Mail) |
| Folder title: | Missile Mail (Experiment) #2 |
| Date: | 12/31/1959 |
| Description: | Rocket or Missile Mail - Letters from people who are requesting missile covers. Folder 2 of 3. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 05-02-18 |
| Subject(s): | Rocket (Missile Mail) |
| Folder title: | Missile Mail (Experiment) #3 |
| Date: | 05/27/1959 |
| Description: | Rocket or Missile Mail - Letters from people requesting missile covers. Folder 3 of 3 |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 05-02-19 |
| Subject(s): | Rocket (Missile Mail ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | NS Savannah - Special Cancel |
| Date: | 07/01/1959 |
| Description: | Special postmark and cachet for NS Savannah, world's first nuclear powered merchant ship. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-01-05 |
| Subject(s): | Cancelling Machines ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Covers |
| Original source: | Federal Maritime Board Martime Administration |
| Folder title: | On the Smithsonian's Exhibit |
| Date: | 09/08/1968 |
| Description: | Details for an exhibition of proofs: U.S. Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Trans-Mississippi Issue of 1898, and the Pan American Exposition of 1901. Three unusual covers from the Sidney N. Shure Collection of Palestine and Israel, early postal stationery issues of New South Wales, Russia and Great Britain. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Lists |
| Folder number: | 01-02-16 |
| Subject(s): | Exhibitions ; Postage Stamps ; Smithsonian Institution |
| Original source: | Smithsonian Institution |
| Folder title: | Operations, Bureau Of |
| Date: | 05/21/1954 |
| Description: | Correspondence between the Post Office Department and the public on a variety of questions and the every day running of the postal service. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-01-10 |
| Subject(s): | Administration ; Postal Service |
| Folder title: | Pan American - Portland to London 1957 |
| Date: | 11/25/1957 |
| Description: | Philatelic treatment of first flight covers for Portland, Oregon to London |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-05-27 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Air Routes ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | PANAGRA Pan American - Grace Airways Airline |
| Date: | 01/01/1954 |
| Description: | The summary of thirty years of aviation progress by Panagra as reflected by postage stamps and first flight covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Essays |
| Folder number: | 05-06-11 |
| Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Air mail service ; Covers |
| Folder title: | PMG's Collection |
| Date: | 12/19/1960 |
| Description: | Listing and evaluation of Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield's stamps, covers, albums, programs, etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Lists |
| Folder number: | 03-02-18 |
| Subject(s): | Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
| Folder title: | Postage Rate Increase - 1971 |
| Date: | 04/30/1969 |
| Description: | Rate change information and scheduling of first day issues. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases ; Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-02-50 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | Postal Inspector #1 |
| Date: | 01/08/1954 |
| Description: | Information on the improper use of postal materials, forgeries, selling and mishandling of first issue stamps and stamps covers early, loss and theft of stamps. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 02-04-23 |
| Subject(s): | United States Postal Inspection Service |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Postal Inspector #2 |
| Date: | 11/19/1965 |
| Description: | A report dealing with improper post markings of envelops carried "Around the World" Palm Springs-California-Honolulu, Hawaii approximately 1,000 pieces of mail were processed. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-04-24 |
| Subject(s): | United States Postal Inspection Service |
| Folder title: | Postal Service - Law and Legislation POD Forms |
| Date: | 05/20/1947 |
| Description: | Philatelic Sales Unit order forms, cashier's record of covers forms. 91st Congress Report 91-1363 and Public Law-91-375 booklets. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Forms ; Congress Reports |
| Folder number: | 03-04-25 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service Law and Legislation |
| Original source: | Post Office Department Congress |
| Folder title: | Space Covers |
| Description: | Press Releases regarding available space covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-03-40 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Smithsonian Institution ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Original source: | National Air and Space Museum |
| Folder title: | Special Stamps |
| Date: | 05/31/1961 |
| Description: | Stamps to be issued under term "special" include some of the following: Man in Space, "Project Mercury", first day covers, details process for the stamps to be issued after John Glenn completed orbit. Stamp was unannounced 1st time that unannounced stamp coincided with the event it commemorated, details the background of the stamp Man in Space. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Telegrams |
| Folder number: | 02-04-01 |
| Subject(s): | Postage Stamps ; Covers |
| Original source: | Post Office Department |
| Folder title: | Tagged Stamps Boerger 2 |
| Date: | 12/23/1963 |
| Description: | Correspondence between Alfred Boerger and the Post Office Department covering processing of First Day Covers, selling of untagged sheets, etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 03-04-18 |
| Subject(s): | Luminescent postage stamps |
| Original source: | Alfred Boerger |
| Folder title: | Tagged Stamps Boerger File 1 |
| Date: | 01/06/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence between Alfred Boerger and the Post Office Department covering processing of First Day Covers, selling of untagged sheets, etc. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 03-04-17 |
| Subject(s): | Luminescent postage stamps |
| Folder title: | Tin Can Mail |
| Date: | 01/01/1934 |
| Description: | Photos of Tin Can covers and those who swim out. Articles about Tin Can mail. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Photographs ; Articles |
| Folder number: | 05-03-43 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service - Ship Letters |
| Folder title: | United States Information Agency. |
| Date: | 01/24/1958 |
| Description: | Letters and memoranda by the U.S. Information Service pertaining to various aspects of Postal Department and philatelic issues. Some aspects contained in this file include" Eleanor Roosevelt stamp, Alliance for Progress, and requests for certain stamps and stamp covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Memorandums |
| Folder number: | 02-04-18 |
| Subject(s): | Administration ; Postage Stamps ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
| Original source: | Post Office Department Foreign Service Dispatch |
| Folder title: | Untitled |
| Date: | 02/24/1975 |
| Description: | Correspondence regarding the sending of first day of issue covers to various people and places. |
| Collection: | Panama |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 30-04-010 |
| Subject(s): | Covers ; Stamps |
| Folder title: | USPOD - First Day Cachets |
| Date: | 06/02/1965 |
| Description: | Correspondence, press releases and printed material with rules and regulations on first day covers. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 03-04-23 |
| Subject(s): | Cachets ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Stamp Collecting (Philately) |
| Folder title: | USPOD Miscel |
| Date: | 07/15/1971 |
| Description: | Weekly Highlight Report, handling of First Day Covers and list of stamp subjects used. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Reports ; Lists |
| Folder number: | 03-03-17 |
| Subject(s): | Postal Service ; Covers ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | USPOD Miscell |
| Date: | 10/01/1952 |
| Description: | Press releases and articles on miscellaneous subjects. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 03-02-01 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | USS Explorer |
| Date: | 01/25/1958 |
| Description: | Material concerning the placement of a District of Columbia post office on the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey vessel Explorer. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence ; Press Releases |
| Folder number: | 05-05-23 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Public Relations - Press Releases |
| Folder title: | USS Sargo |
| Date: | 10/13/1960 |
| Description: | Correspondence relating to the polar voyage of the USS Sargo. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Correspondence |
| Folder number: | 05-05-20 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) |
| Folder title: | Williams' Case - First Day covers Wash. D.C. |
| Date: | 03/24/1965 |
| Description: | A hearing involving Mr. Williams and the financial controls for sale of First Day covers in Washington, D. C. |
| Collection: | Third Assistant Postmaster General Files |
| Includes: | Reports |
| Folder number: | 04-02-01 |
| Subject(s): | Covers (Philately) ; Persons ; United States Postal Inspection Service |
| Original source: | Bureau of Appeals and Review |
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