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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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