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Folder title: "Abraham Cohen = Deputy Postmaster, Georgetown, S. C. (1789-1800)
Date: 03/01/1959
Description:About the life of Abraham Cohen, Deputy Postmaster, Georgetown, South Carolina.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Reprints
Folder number:05-06-04
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society

Folder title: "Illegal Payoff to High U. S. Postal Oficial" - AP WX 10.17.86
Date: 10/02/1986
Description:John Gnau has been found guilty of bribing a high U.S Postal official.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Wire Service Messages
Folder number:05-06-15
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees
Original source:AP Wire Service

Folder title: 11. Geographical File & Data Re: Foreign Stamps
Description:Lists of foreign postage stamps that were on display at the Post Office Department Headquarters.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:03-07-20
Subject(s): Postage Stamps
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: 130 Byrd Anarctic Expedition Number 3 1939
Date: 07/10/1939
Description:Correspondence on and for a sub-post office at Little America (Byrd Expedition). Map of Antarctica and information about the Snow Cruiser versus the aero plane. Picture of his airplane
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs
Folder number:04-01-07
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Persons

Folder title: 1964 Speeches
Date: 01/11/1964
Description:Speeches of Postmaster General John A. Gronouski and Public Information Officer Mrs. Lee Frances Bowler. The Postmaster General addressing the Democratic - Farmer Labor Party and PIO's address at dedication of P.O building in Osceola, Missouri.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases ; Speeches
Folder number:03-01-16
Subject(s): Speeches ; Public Relations - Press Releases

Folder title: 1969 - Bio.'s of Asst. PMG's
Description:A series of photographs, biographical sketches, and press releases. on Assistant Postmasters, Kenneth Houseman, David Nelson, James Ward Hargrove, John L O'Mara, El Elmer Theodore Klassen.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Biographies
Folder number:02-02-36
Subject(s): Postal Service - Postmasters ; Persons ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: 1969 - Post Master General Winton M. Blount,
Date: 05/01/1968
Description:This file contains information from a wide variety of medium pertaining to Post Master General William Blount. Photographs and Biographical Sketch.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Biographies ; Articles
Folder number:02-02-35
Subject(s): Postal Service - Postmasters ; Persons

Folder title: Admiral Cervera - Undershirt Mailed
Date: 11/13/1927
Description:Undershirt of Admiral Cervera received in the mail by the father of the author.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-27
Subject(s): Parcels - Post ; Persons

Folder title: Arkansas
Date: 09/20/1962
Description:Martha Fouty was the first woman mail carrier. She lived in Palarm, Arkansas.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-07-23
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Persons ; Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Cleveland Press

Folder title: Articles on Jethro Butcher
Date: 06/21/1969
Description:Issues concerning the role and duties of Mr. Jethro Butcher, who is a butler for Postmaster General William Blount. (Tax-payers are paying his $6, 321 a year salary.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Memorandums
Folder number:01-07-30
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Persons ; Postal Service - Law and Legislation

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: Bureau of Engraving and Printing News
Date: 07/26/1985
Description:Press Release, death notice and biography. Jeanne Howard, Longtime friend and employee passes away.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Death Notices
Folder number:01-01-04
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Canal Zone - Miscellaneous Presentation
Description:Memoranda returning press proofs with machine copies of the stamps. Four photographs and a photograph proof strip of unknown men presenting a sheet of stamps (Thatcher Ferry Bridge). Autographed photograph of Fred Mamo, Postmaster General marked Malta. Photographs marked Quito, one of Benjamin Rivadeneira and the other with Benjamine rivadneira and employees of the "Direction General of Posts". Fourteen copies of a 3" x 4" photograph, the size used to send to the media, of an unused postage stamp design.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Memorandums ; Articles ; Photographs
Folder number:30-04-006
Subject(s): Foreign ; Persons

Folder title: Canal Zone - USRCARIB School Folder #2
Date: 07/28/1961
Description:History of the USARCARIB 15 cent air mail stamp, Canal Zone number C32. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C32. Machine copy of First Day cancellation. Newspaper and magazine articles concerning this stamp. Two photographs of the Director of Posts and two U. S. Army officers reviewing photographs. Nine photographs of people and events at the First Day of Issue Ceremony.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C32
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Photographs
Folder number:30-03-043
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Design

Folder title: Consolidated Itineraries Birm., Atl., Montg., Ft. Worth, Houston
Date: 04/24/1969
Description:Checklist for materials needed for Donald Campbell's trips. Copies of itineraries from04/04/1969 through 05/06/1969 from Birmingham, Montgomery Alabama to Dallas - Fort Worth Texas.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Checklists ; Itineraries
Folder number:02-02-42
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Persons
Original source:Post Office Department

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 156
Date: 02/14/1962
Description:Ninety-plus copies of 1 3/4" x 3 7/8" copies of photograph of Canal Zone 156, this size was used to send to the media. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of this stamp. Machine copy of a photograph of the stamp and of first day of issues cancellations. Two copies of a photograph of a Girl Scout presenting flowers to Mrs. Robert J. Fleming, wife of the Governor, and one of the Governor applying a first day cancellation to a cover. Newspaper clippings and articles about this stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone 156
Includes:Photographs ; Correspondence
Folder number:30-03-027
Subject(s): Design ; Girl Scouts ; First Day of Issue

Folder title: Designer - Biographies 1
Date: 11/17/1963
Description:Stamp designers and their background from the artists and other sources. Copy of The American Philatelist, August, 1971. Copy of the American Artist, march, 1971.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Lists ; Articles
Folder number:03-07-18
Subject(s): Postage stamp design ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Persons

Folder title: Designer - Biographies 2
Date: 12/15/1957
Description:Biographies and photographs of stamp designers. Lists of issued stamps and their designers.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Lists ; Photographs
Folder number:03-07-19
Subject(s): Postage stamp design ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Persons

Folder title: Designers and Engravers
Date: 01/10/1908
Description:Lists of the sources for designs of various stamps from 1908 to 1941.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Lists ; Articles
Folder number:03-07-17
Subject(s): Postage stamp design ; Persons

Folder title: Finance - FPC - Eugene, Ore. 6/24/64
Date: 06/03/1964
Description:Materials related to Ralph Nicholson's Itinerary at postal exhibitions, copies of speeches, and correspondence letters.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Speeches ; Correspondence
Folder number:01-07-09
Subject(s): Public Relations ; Exhibitions ; Persons

Folder title: Finance - Postal Advisory Panel - 1965
Date: 02/03/1965
Description:Information on the Postal Advisory Panel with Postmaster John A. Gronouski to President Johnson.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Press Releases
Folder number:02-03-31
Subject(s): Administration ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Persons
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Finance 6 Biographies & Pic. Mr. Nicholson
Date: 12/06/1965
Description:Biographical information about Assistant Post Master General, Bureau of Finance: An invitation celebrating the Mr. Nicholson's Ben Franklin Award
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Information Sheets ; Biographies
Folder number:02-03-26
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Persons ; Postal Service - Postmasters
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Gen. Counsel 1 General Correspondence 1961-67
Date: 04/29/1961
Description:Miscellaneous correspondence of the General Counsel for the Post Office Department. Some examples include: A biographical sketch of Tim James May, request for the copy of the 1918 report of the Postmaster General. Legislative highlights, franking, "Taper" bill, Itineraries. proposal for story in Machinist Magazine.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Biographies ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-03-12
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Inspectors 1 General Correspondence 1966-67
Date: 02/09/1961
Description:General correspondence of postal inspectors. Some examples from this file include: a statement describing the duties of the Postal Inspection Service. Letter about concerns at the Rockland Post Office Department (New York).
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases ; Photographs
Folder number:02-03-13
Subject(s): United States Postal Inspection Service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Persons
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Int'l Appointment Announ's, Release, Etc - Walter Sheble
Date: 08/06/1966
Description:Information on the appointment of Walter Sheble as Special Assistant for International Postal Organizations.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:02-06-15
Subject(s): Public Relations (Press Releases) ; Persons ; Postal Service - Foreign
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Lorenzo of Hatch, Engraver
Date: 11/01/1967
Description:Lorenzo Hatch was one of the foremost engravers of his timeā€¦
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-23
Subject(s): Persons ; Postage Stamp Printing

Folder title: Merchandising Committee
Date: 04/16/1971
Description:Correspondence Between Gordon Morrison and Warren Yang, Director of Posts, Republic of China on the philatelic market. A business proposal from BIC Pen to provide a slogan pen promoting the collection and sale of United States postage stamps. List of members and confidential minutes of the Merchandising Committee meeting of 04/22/1971. Six untitled photographs showing the interior and exterior of a Canadian Post Office.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs ; Minutes ; Lists
Folder number:02-04-27
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Stamp Collecting (Philately)

Folder title: P.1. Press Interviews 1968
Date: 01/04/1966
Description:Letters and copies of interviews from postal employees to various forms of media. Some examples of interviews are from. Forbes Magazine, Modern Railroad magazine, Industrial Research magazine, Associated Press. A transcript from an interview deals with issues of 3rd class mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Copies of Interviews
Folder number:02-02-03
Subject(s): Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Postal Service - Employees
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: P.1. Travel File - D. A. Campbell 1964
Date: 01/20/1964
Description:Travel vouchers and information for travel by Donald A. Campbell
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Travel Vouchers
Folder number:02-06-06
Subject(s): Administration
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Pending - Resolution 25 Hearings - 7/31 - 8/3/67 Testimony Mr. Hartigan
Date: 10/06/1967
Description:Testimony concerning S. 2333 that would provide certain benefits to postal employees who are transferred to new duty stations in the interest of the government.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Testimonies
Folder number:02-07-06
Subject(s): Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Persons ; History - Postal
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Personnel 7 Employment of Handicapped
Date: 01/27/1964
Description:Information on Postal Employee's with handicaps: Report of the 1963 Annual Meeting of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. A photograph of Miss. Ann Cannon with a Postal Official. Report from New York Offices of Handicapped employees.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs ; Reports
Folder number:02-03-18
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Persons
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Personnel 8 POD Awards Ceremony (1967)
Date: 10/19/1966
Description:Press Releases and photographs announcing awards for outstanding Achievement. Correspondence pertaining to the ceremonies and a pamphlet from the banquet.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Correspondence ; Press Releases
Folder number:02-03-19
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Philatelic Division - USPOD Special Case
Date: 10/04/1965
Description:Entire folder regarding letters of complaint by Leonard Shapiro.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:03-02-35
Subject(s): Public Relations - Customer Relations ; Letter Writing

Folder title: Philatelic Exhibition Room 1315, 1971
Date: 05/01/1966
Description:"Firm Mailing Book" of the Philatelic Exhibition Room. Obituary of M. H. Keelet
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Firm Mailing Book ; Articles ; Notes
Folder number:02-01-18
Subject(s): Exhibitions ; Persons

Folder title: PMG Day Press Conf
Date: 02/09/1961
Description:Press conference regarding the increase of postal notes, the President withdrew 200 nominations for postmasters and the appointment of Mr. Henry Montgue as Chief Inspector.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Conference
Folder number:03-02-06
Subject(s): Postal Service - Postmasters ; Persons

Folder title: Postage Stamps of US - (Orders Mailed Out)
Description:Letters from persons containing orders for postage stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:02-05-14
Subject(s): Stamp Collecting (Philately)
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Postal Executives
Date: 04/01/1965
Description:Listing of Post Office Department executives and list of titles and addresses of Postal Employee Organizations.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:03-01-18
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Persons
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Reading File - March and April 1968
Date: 03/06/1968
Description:Post Office Department miscellaneous material for January and February, 1968. Material includes: statement concerning Mr. Hartigan's activities after leaving the Post Office Department after seven years of service. Several copies of rough drafts (letters). Biographical sketch of Frederick E. Bartus, Assistant Postmaster General Bureau of Transportation.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Reports ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-03-07
Subject(s): Administration ; Persons
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Rev. Floyd Leach Collection
Date: 05/01/1965
Description:Reverend Leach's Collection was willed to the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-21
Subject(s): Persons ; Smithsonian Institution

Folder title: Society of Illustrators
Date: 01/01/1960
Description:Brochure for a special showing of artwork used for recent U. S. Postage Stamps
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs
Folder number:04-07-13
Subject(s): Postage stamp design ; Persons

Folder title: Trans New Orleans, LA 4/1/65
Date: 03/05/1965
Description:A statement by John A. Gronouski, before the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee March 11, 1965, remarks by Frederick Bartus concerning the centennial of railway mail. A large amount of material in this file contains information on a Chamber of Commerce Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana attended by William Hartigan in 1965
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Testimonies ; Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Speeches
Folder number:02-04-09
Subject(s): Postal Service - Law and Legislation ; Speeches ; Railway Mail Service

Folder title: USPOD Letters to -
Date: 10/28/1959
Description:Letters responding to various requests for stamps and information. Most signed by Franklin R. Bruns, Jr.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:03-03-19
Subject(s): Letter Writing - Government Correspondence ; Postal Service

Folder title: USPOD Philatelic Sales Unit 3
Date: 10/01/1961 - 02/01/1963
Description:Press release and postal rate and pay increase information. Post Office Department telephone book.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Telephone Directories ; Lists
Folder number:03-03-03
Subject(s): Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Employees ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: V. C. Burke, PM Washington, D. C. (1936)
Date: 07/09/1936
Description:A letter describing the location, service, revenue and functions of the Washington D.C. post office. Copy of an address for NBC'S Farm and Home Hour.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Speeches
Folder number:01-01-08
Subject(s): Post Office Stations & Branches ; Postal Service ; Public Relations - Customer Relations
Original source:Vincent C. Burke

Folder title: Venetian Letter, 1390 - Gift of John Rider
Date: 10/16/1966
Description:A Venetian business letter from 1390 was donated to the Smithsonian. It is the oldest paper letter in the collection.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:03-02-22
Subject(s): History - Postal ; Smithsonian Institution

Folder title: Virginia Brizendine
Date: 07/26/1965
Description:Mrs. Brizendine to be promoted to Director of Philately effective 08/15/65.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:03-01-20
Subject(s): Postal Service - Employees ; Persons

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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