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Folder title: "Airmail's Amazing Growth Sets Aviation Record. "Pppular Mechanics Vol. 48, No. 6 (Dec. 1927) p. 954-55
Date: 01/01/1927
Description:Article "Air Mail's" amazing growth sets aviation record with many proposed new routes.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-05
Subject(s): Air Routes ; Air mail service
Original source:Popular Mechanics

Folder title: "First Flying Truck for Overnight Air Mail"
Date: 04/01/1925
Description:Magazine article concerning the acquisition of cargo airplanes for transporting mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:06-05-56
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air mail service

Folder title: "The Air Mail's Limitless Future" the Literary Digest. Vol LXXXVI, No. 1 (July 4, 1925) p. 67
Date: 07/04/1925
Description:Author looks forward to a limitless future for air mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-12
Subject(s): Air Routes ; Air mail service
Original source:Literary Digest

Folder title: 12/21/68 - Lexington, KY. P.O. - Campbell
Date: 12/31/1968
Description:Letters concerning postal service at the Lexington Post Office.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:02-06-07
Subject(s): Post Office Stations & Branches ; Air mail service ; Air Routes
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: 145.15 Postal Cards Air Mail
Date: 10/01/1948
Description:Correspondence regarding printing and use of air mail postcards.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-07-07
Subject(s): Postcards ; United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Folder title: 1946-47 Antartic R. E. Byrd Air Mail
Date: 11/12/1946
Description:Information about Admiral Byrd and the expedition to the Antarctic. Photographs by Byrd and others on the expedition.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases ; Photographs
Folder number:05-05-01
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Navy Department

Folder title: 1968 Air Taxi Schedule - Rates, Routes, etc.
Date: 04/16/1966
Description:Report showing Regional air taxi listings of routes, operations, rate, mileage, required volume and aircraft used
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Reports ; Lists
Folder number:03-01-05
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: 2/25-28/69 Story on AMF's - Chicago, Network, K..C.
Date: 03/07/1960
Description:Material concerning the future and viability of airport Mail Facilities and a copy the Methods Handbook for Transfer Clerks Airport Mail Facilities.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-06-14
Subject(s): Postal Service ; Air mail service ; Post Office Stations & Branches
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: 210.2 Air Mail Postage Stamps
Date: 06/25/1936
Description:Correspondence pertaining to Air Mail stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Stamp Designs
Folder number:01-02-48
Subject(s): Postage Stamps
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: 210.2-14 Stamps, Postage, Air Mail Coils
Date: 05/12/1938
Description:A series of letters pertaining to Air Mail coil postage stamps condition, use and cost . An advertisement for a U.S. stamp machine, 1943 model.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases
Folder number:01-02-41
Subject(s): Postage Stamps ; Public Relations - Press Releases

Folder title: 210.2-8 Stamps Postage Air Mail, Books of Jan. 1948 to
Date: 09/09/1947
Description:Some of the public would like airmail stamps in larger books.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:04-05-06
Subject(s): Postage Stamps

Folder title: 210.7A Stamps, Air Mail Postage Suggestions for Disposition of obsolete 6-cent and 8-cent Air mail stamps
Date: 10/04/1946
Description:Materials pertaining to the use of obsolete 6-cent and 8-cent Air mail stamps. The majority of the letters are suggestions in how to dispose of the stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:01-02-39
Subject(s): Postage Stamps
Original source:Post Office Department House of Representatives

Folder title: 75.5-1 Envelopes, Letter Sheet V-Mail 1942
Date: 02/10/1942
Description:Correspondence pertaining to the inception, use and inquires about V - mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs ; Correspondence
Folder number:01-02-05
Subject(s): Army Postal Service ; APO ; V Mail ; Airmail ; Air mail service ; V - Mail
Original source:Post Office Department War Department

Folder title: 84 Special Cachets Requests For
Date: 11/08/1950
Description:Many requests for permission to make a cachet. Two copies of an artists drawing for an air mail post card.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:03-07-02
Subject(s): Cachets

Folder title: Air Mail - "Flying Post Office Experiment Horrt Lived"
Date: 10/06/1986
Description:Linn's Stamp News article about the experiment of processing mail in flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:06-05-55
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air mail service

Folder title: Air Mail - "Mr. Robey's memorable Week" American Philatelist, Oct. 1983, pp. 912-18.32
Date: 10/01/1983
Description:Article describing the purchase of the 24-cent jenny invert.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-06
Subject(s): Stamp Collecting (Philately)
Original source:American Philatelist

Folder title: Air Mail - 5/1918 Leaving N.Y.
Date: 05/01/1918
Description:Leaving New York with Air Mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs
Folder number:06-05-47
Subject(s): Air mail service

Folder title: Air Mail and Air Taxi (Misc.)
Date: 05/11/1967
Description:The accident rate of the air taxi used by the Post Office Department for the distribution of mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-01-27
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail

Folder title: Air Mail Anniversary Flights Draw Pilots, Aero-Graphics, July 1970
Date: 07/01/1970
Description:Article about the New York to San Francisco Air Mail Route Anniversary.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-09
Subject(s): Air Routes
Original source:Aero Graphic

Folder title: Air Mail Data
Date: 06/14/1941
Description:Articles from various magazines and papers dealing with airmail stamps.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-03-02
Subject(s): Postage Stamps

Folder title: Air Mail Letters Identified with Label Tape "Popular Mechanics. Vol. 48, No. 6 (Dec 1921) p. 957"
Date: 12/01/1927
Description:Air Mail letters identified with label tape.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-03
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Popular Mechanics

Folder title: Air Mail Rates - Domestic and Foreign
Date: 01/01/1789 - 01/01/1961
Description:Lists of postal rates for various years and kinds of service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:05-07-35
Subject(s): Postal Rates
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Air Star Route - Hawaii
Date: 02/09/1950
Description:Cachet for Hawaii First Flight U.S. mail
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Drawings ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-19
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Air Taxi Mail Service
Date: 01/01/1968
Description:A 1966 - 1967 - 1968 graph of Air Taxi Mail Service volume and a map of new air network for Wyoming mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Graphs ; Maps
Folder number:03-01-06
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Air Taxi Mail Service - Now
Description:Map of the U.S. Showing locations of associate offices and sectional centers of Air Taxi Mail Service-Now.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Maps
Folder number:03-01-03
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes

Folder title: Air Taxi Service - End 1966
Date: 01/01/1966
Description:Map of the U.S. showing locations of associate offices and sectional centers of Air Taxi Mail Service at the end of 1966.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Maps
Folder number:03-01-04
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Air Routes

Folder title: Airlift (Background & Policy)
Date: 02/16/1967
Description:Documentation pertaining to Air Mail service: volume - payments to air carriers, expansion of air lift program, installation of air programs 26 major cities all over the country.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-02-18
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Administration

Folder title: Bilstein, Robert A. "Technology & Commerce: Aviation in the Coduce of American Business 1918-29.
Date: 07/01/1969
Description:Article by Roger E. Bilstein "Technology and Commerce Aviation in the Conduct of American Business, 1918-29".
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:05-06-27
Subject(s): Air mail service

Folder title: C2 C15-C20
Description:Copies of photographs of designs and/or stamps Canal Zone number C15, C16, C17,C18, C19, C20, 122 and 123. Photocopies of designs of 132 and 133 with notations. Photocopy of 123 as a twenty-cent denomination stamp with the denomination crossed out and five-cent replacing - five-cent was the final denomination for this design.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C15 ; Panama Canal Zone C16 ; Pa
Includes:Photographs ; Photocopies
Folder number:30-03-039
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: C-37
Date: 10/15/1963
Description:One 3 1/2" x 4" black and white and three 5" x 7" color photographs of Canal Zone C37. Three 8"x 10" photographs of a Canal Zone scenes. Photograph montage showing the design model and the finished stamp. Memorandum with history of the stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C37
Includes:Photographs ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-057
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: C38
Date: 10/15/1963
Description:Two 3 1/2" x 4" black and white and three 5" x 7" color photographs of Canal Zone C38. One 8"x 10" photograph of a Canal Zone a scene. Photograph montage showing the design model and the finished stamp. Memorandum with history of the stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C38
Includes:Photographs ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-058
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: C39
Date: 10/15/1963
Description:One 3 1/2" x 4" black and white and three 5" x 7" color photographs of Canal Zone C39. Two 8"x 10" copies of a photograph of a Canal Zone scene. Two copies of a photograph montage showing the design model and the finished stamp. Memorandum with history of the stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C39
Includes:Photographs ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-059
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: C40
Date: 10/15/1963
Description:One 3 1/2" x 4" black and white and three 5" x 7" color photographs of Canal Zone C40. Two 8"x 10" copies of a photograph of a Canal Zone scene. Two copies of a photograph montage showing the design model and the finished stamp. Memorandum with history of the stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C40
Includes:Photographs ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-060
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: C41
Date: 10/15/1963
Description:One 3 1/2" x 4" black and white and three 5" x 7" color photographs of Canal Zone C40. Three 8"x 10" copies of photographs of Canal Zone scenes. Two copies of a photograph montage showing the design model and the finished stamp. Memorandum with history of the stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C41 ; Panama Canal Zone C40
Includes:Photographs ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-061
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

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: C50
Date: 10/03/1973
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone numbers C50. Machine copy of upgraded stationery and First Day of Issue cancellations. Correspondence to Bureau of Engraving and Printing regarding 8 cent post cards. The Bureau also was notified that they had not provided the requested color for the C50a booklet cover (Kelly green). The same blue was used as for 49a (11 cent) which could cause confusion on the part of the clerks.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C50 ; Panama Canal Zone C50a ; P
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Press Releases
Folder number:30-03-068
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Postcards ; Design

Folder title: Cachet Material - Dodge City Kansas
Description:Cachet for Dodge City, Kansas, U.S. Air Mail First Flight
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Drawings ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-23
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #1 Scott C36-C41
Description:Six copies of the Panama Canal Review 05/00/1964 one with a misprint on C37 on the cover. Multiple copies of a 3" x 4" photograph of the die proof of each stamp. Three 8" x 10" photographs of a map of the canal. Forty-three copies of 8" x 10" photographs of the canal and locks, some duplication.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Publications ; Photographs
Folder number:30-03-047
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #2 Scott C36-C41
Date: 06/03/1964
Description:Newspaper clippings and magazine articles about this stamp issue. Press Release.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Articles
Folder number:30-03-048
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Press Releases ; Design

Folder title: Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #3 Scott C36-C41
Date: 03/16/1964
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C36-C41. Memo detailing the 50th anniversary celebration events. Memoranda concerning meetings of the Anniversary Committee. Machine copy of a sketched design proposal for the Anniversary emblem. Copy of the "Bureau Specialist" 05/00/1965. Two uncaptioned 8" x 10" photographs of a group of people. Correspondence concerning sale of stamps at the New York World's Fair.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Articles ; Photographs
Folder number:30-03-049
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #4 Scott C36-C41
Date: 10/09/1963
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C36-C41 including a history of the stamp. Final copy of 50th Anniversary events. Machine copies of various photographs of Canal Zone scenes. Two 8" x 10" montages photographs of these stamps. An 8" x 10" photograph of each stamp. Captioned photograph of the Canal Zone Governor Robert J. Fleming canceling stamps.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-050
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Design

Folder title: Canal Zone - 50th Anniversary Folder #5 Scott C36-C41
Date: 08/07/1963
Description:Machine copies of sketches of proposed stamp designs. Three photographs of a proposed design showing the Thatcher Ferry Bridge. Comments on sketch ideas.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Photographs ; Drafts ; Drawings
Folder number:30-03-051
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

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 #7 Scott C36-C41
Date: 05/15/1964
Description:Machine copies of photographs of Canal Zone C36-41. Memoranda and notes regarding first day sales.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Memorandums ; Press Releases
Folder number:30-03-053
Subject(s): Air Mail ; First Day of Issue ; Press Releases

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 - 50th Anniversary Folder #8 Scott C36-C41
Date: 11/15/1963
Description:One 3 2/3" by 3 3/4" photograph of Canal Zone C 36. Three 5" x 7" color photographs of C36. Seven 8"x 10" photographs of Canal Zone scenes. Two 8" x 10" photograph montages showing a photographic scene used in the stamp design, a copy of the model and of the finished stamp. Memorandum with history of the stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C36 ; Panama Canal Zone C37 ; Pa
Includes:Photographs ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-056
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Design

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 Service KLM, Pam Am Douglas DC-3
Date: 11/01/1938
Description:Marketing brochures from KLM royal Dutch Air Lines showing service and schedules. Copy of the Plan Views of Douglas DST & DC-3. Copy of Pan American Airways.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Brochures
Folder number:30-03-129
Subject(s): Air Mail Service ; KLM ; Pan American Airways

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 - 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: 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 Air Letter Sheets UC - Special
Date: 11/10/1960
Description:Correspondence regarding the printing of air letter sheets by the Canal Zone Printing Plant due to the lack of adequate suppliers. Correspondence detailing the order of 5,000 plain air letter sheets that require a stamp. Newspaper clippings about this sheet. A mention in a memorandum concerning rewriting Canal Zone Postal regulations to allow the sale of Precancel stamps to collectors.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:30-03-085
Subject(s): Printing ; Precancel ; Air Mail

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 Design for 5 cent Envelope Essay
Date: 04/29/1963
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design of Canal Zone five-cent ordinary and 8-cent air mail envelopes.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:30-03-081
Subject(s): Design ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing

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 Postal Cards (1952) Scott #UX11 UXC1
Date: 04/30/1952
Description:Memorandum to the governor stating that the Canal Zone Stamp Committee recommended issue a 75th anniversary of Gorgas Hospital stamp, an ordinary post card and an air mail post card. Correspondence regarding the paper stock used for printing post cards. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue several postal items.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UX11 ; Panama Canal Zone UXC1
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-105
Subject(s): Postcards ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Air Mail

Folder title: Canal Zone Scott #UC-15 1975
Date: 08/15/1975
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation of the eleven-cent short air mail envelopes to eleven-cent value at the Panama Canal Company Printing Plant. Machine copies of the envelope.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-100
Subject(s): Revalue ; Air Mail ; Surcharge

Folder title: Cheboygan, Mich
Date: 04/17/1941
Description:Cachet for Cheboygan, Michigan, for the United States Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-37
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets
Original source:Second Assistant Postmaster General

Folder title: CX UC15
Date: 09/28/1973
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation of existing stock and issue of new stamps and postal stationery relevant to the increase of air mail postage to thirteen cents and regular mail to ten cents. Instructions for first day of issue cancellations. Machine copies of the envelopes.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone CX ; Panama Canal Zone UC15
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-101
Subject(s): Revalue ; Air Mail ; Surcharge

Folder title: CZ 120-135, C15-20
Description:Multiple copies of photograph of Canal Zone Scott numbers 120-135, some mounted. Eight photographic copies of pencil sketches illustrating the new series of air mail stamps, Canal Zone C15-20. File includes reproduced copies of design sketches for this issue.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone 120 ; Panama Canal Zone 121 ; Pa
Includes:Photographs ; Photocopies
Folder number:30-03-007
Subject(s): Design

Folder title: CZ 32
Date: 08/01/1958
Description:Three 35mm slides of Canal Zone C32, USARCARIB School. Photocopy of a map of South America. Three 8" x 10" photocopies, two 6 1/2" by 8" photocopies and two machine copies of stamp designs. Two mounted 4" x 5" photocopies of the approved design. Three 8" x 10" photocopies of the approved model. Two 6 1/2" x 8" photocopies of the USARCARIB crest. Sheet with color copies of USARCARIB crest. First Day program. Machine copies of varies design concepts.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone 32
Includes:Photographs ; Folders
Folder number:30-03-042
Subject(s): Air Mail ; First Day of Issue ; Design

Folder title: CZ 33
Date: 08/12/1962
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C33 including a history of the stamp. Newspaper clippings regarding this stamp. Machine copies of stamp designs. Two photographs of a workman spraying to eradicate malaria.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone 33
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Photographs
Folder number:30-03-044
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Design

Folder title: CZ C21, C22, C23, C24, C25, C26
Date: 08/28/1950
Description:A copy of an advertisement of a stamp sale featuring Canal Zone Scott number C25a. Copy of "Stamp Mirror" of 06/16/1951. Copy of "the Bureau Specialist" 05/00/1957 with an article on Canal Zone C25a. Typewritten article by Lt. Co. DeVoss describing how this first error stamp of the Canal Zone occurred. Photograph of the partial sheet of C25a. Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of this series of air mail stamps. Two 8" x 10" photocopies of the design for Canal Zone C21. Cropped and mounted photographs of Canal Zone C23. machine copies of Canal Zone C21-C23 and C26-C26.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C21 ; Panama Canal Zone C22 ; Pa
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Photographs
Folder number:30-03-040
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Errors ; Design

Folder title: CZ C27, C28, C29, C30, C31
Date: 05/28/1958
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C27 - C31. Newspaper and magazine clippings concerning this series of stamps.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C27 ; Panama Canal Zone C28 ; Pa
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:30-03-041
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; First Day of Issue

Folder title: CZ C34
Date: 12/13/1963
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C34 including a history of the stamp. Machine copies of First Day cancellations
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C34
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases
Folder number:30-03-045
Subject(s): Air Mail ; First Day of Issue ; Design

Folder title: CZ C35
Date: 04/17/1963
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone C35 including a history of the stamp and a copy of the letter from Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, asking that this stamp be issued.. Copy of the President's (Kennedy) Foreign Aid Message. Thirty plus copies of a 2 1/2" x 5 3/4" photograph of the stamp, the size used to send to the media. Four 3" x 5" photographs of C35. Color copies of the Alliance for Progress decal in various sizes. Three 8" x 10" photographs of C35. Newspaper clippings regarding this stamp.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C35
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles ; Photographs
Folder number:30-03-046
Subject(s): Air Mail ; President

Folder title: CZ C47
Date: 07/15/1965
Description:Six copies of a photograph of Canal Zone C47. Three copies of the presentation folder for this issue.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C47
Includes:Photographs ; Folders
Folder number:30-03-063
Subject(s): Air Mail

Folder title: CZ C48a
Date: 10/07/1969
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone number C48a. Newspaper clippings about this stamp. Copy of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing sheet layout. Booklet stapling concept and cover design information is included
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C48a
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:30-03-065
Subject(s): Air Mail ; First Day of Issue ; Booklet

Folder title: CZ C49
Date: 04/16/1971
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone numbers C49. A copy of a 3" x 4" photograph and two negatives of photograph of C49. Machine copy of first day of issues cancellations. Two copies of a photograph of C49. Newspaper clippings
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C49
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs ; Press Releases ; Articles
Folder number:30-03-066
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Design

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 Postal Card - 1958 UXC1, UXC2
Description:Contains accession receipts for examples of postal stationery that have been placed in the Postal Museum vault. Machine copies of cards.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UXC1 ; Panama Canal Zone UXC2
Includes:Receipts
Folder number:30-03-117
Subject(s): Postcards ; Air Mail

Folder title: CZ Postal Cards (1965) Scot# UXC3, UXC2
Date: 04/10/1965
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation of post cards. Machine copies of items with cancellations.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UXC3 ; Panama Canal Zone UXC2
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-118
Subject(s): Postcards ; Revalue ; Air Mail

Folder title: CZ Postal Cards (1968, 1969) Scott #UXC4, Ux16
Date: 05/22/1968
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation at the Panama Canal Company Printing Company of four-cent post cards to various new values. Machine copies of the cards some with cancellations.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-111
Subject(s): Postcards ; Revalue ; Air Mail

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 UC10
Date: 02/12/1968
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation of four-cent post cards and four-cent short and long envelopes.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC10
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-095
Subject(s): Postcards ; Surcharge ; Revalue

Folder title: CZ UC11
Date: 07/31/1968
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone post card and air mail envelope. Machine copies of the envelope.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC11
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums ; Press Releases
Folder number:30-03-096
Subject(s): Postcards ; Press Releases ; Air Mail

Folder title: CZ UC12
Date: 05/24/1971
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation of air mail envelopes to eleven cents, ordinary five-cent post cards to nine cent air mail cards and ordinary five-cent post cards to six cent cards. Machine copies of the envelope.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC12
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-097
Subject(s): Revalue ; Air Mail ; Surcharge

Folder title: CZ UC13
Date: 05/26/1971
Description:Memoranda concerning the revaluation of ten-cent air mail envelopes to eleven-cent. Machine copies of the envelope.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC13
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-098
Subject(s): Postcards ; Surcharge ; Revalue

Folder title: CZ UC14
Date: 04/05/1971
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of the eight-cent Canal Zone 159 and eight-cent envelopes, eleven-cent envelopes and surcharging of existing stocks to meet the new rate requirements. Letter of 09/10/1971 informing the United States Envelope company that there is a flaw in the basic design of the embossed stamp of the new long airmail stamped envelopes making them unusable and the will be destroyed. The short envelopes are good, but there are errors in the packing count for these.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone159 ; Panama Canal Zone UC14
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-099
Subject(s): Stamps ; Errors ; Postal Rates

Folder title: CZ UC3
Date: 10/09/1946
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone postal stationery UC3. memoranda approving the embossing die model for the Canal Zone six-cent air mail stamp. Machine copies of design sketches for UC3.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC3
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-086
Subject(s): Stamps ; Air Mail ; Design

Folder title: CZ UC5
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 UC5
Includes:Receipts
Folder number:30-03-088
Subject(s): Revalue ; Air Mail ; Surcharge

Folder title: CZ UC5, UX13, UXC2
Date: 05/14/1963
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone postal stationery UC5, UX13, UXC2 . Correspondence requesting surface pieces for use on Heidelberg letter press to imprint additional postage on Canal zone envelopes and postal cards. Machine copies of post cards one with a printing error. Newspaper clippings regarding these issues.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC5 ; Panama Canal Zone UX13 ; P
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:30-03-089
Subject(s): Postcards ; Surcharge ; Revalue

Folder title: CZ UC6
Date: 01/06/1963
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone postal stationery UC6. Seven 2 1/2" x 4 1/2 inch photographs of the indicia of UC6, the size photograph used to sent to the media. Machine copies of the design.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC6
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases
Folder number:30-03-090
Subject(s): Design ; Printing ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Folder title: CZ UC7
Date: 05/19/1965
Description:Memoranda concerning the reevaluation of 50,000 of the four-cent long envelopes by adding an additional four-cent postage and the wording "VIA AIR MAIL". Machine copies of the envelopes and cancellation.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC7
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-091
Subject(s): Revalue ; Cancellations ; Surcharge

Folder title: CZ UC8
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 UC8
Includes:Receipts
Folder number:30-03-092
Subject(s): Air Mail

Folder title: CZ UC9
Date: 01/18/1968
Description:Memorandum certifying the revaluation of 376,000 envelopes, UC9. Machine copies of canceled copies of UC9.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC9
Includes:Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-094
Subject(s): Revalue ; Cancellations ; Surcharge

Folder title: CZ UX16, UX17, UC9
Date: 10/07/1968
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone post card UX17. Memorandum concerning the revaluation of UX16 and UC9 and requesting permission to issue new items with the same design and new denomination. Newspaper clippings regarding revalued items.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UX16 ; Panama Canal Zone UX17 ;
Includes:Memorandums ; Articles ; Requisitions
Folder number:30-03-093
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Postcards ; Postal Rates

Folder title: CZ50
Date: 10/01/1973
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone numbers C50a. The Bureau also was notified that they had not provided the requested color for the C50a booklet cover (Kelly green). The same blue was used as for 49a (11 cent) which could cause confusion on the part of the clerks. Machine copies of booklet cover and First Day of Issue cancellations.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone C50 ; Panama Canal Zone C50a ; P
Includes:Correspondence ; Press Releases
Folder number:30-03-069
Subject(s): Air Mail ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Design

Folder title: Duluth, Minn
Date: 03/15/1940
Description:Cachets from Duluth Minnesota, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-36
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets
Original source:Fourth Assistant Postmaster General

Folder title: El Centro, Cal, First Flight (Featuring the lettuce crop)
Description:Cachet for El Centro, California for first U.S. Air Mail First Flight
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-10
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Exhibits 1964
Date: 01/08/1964
Description:Correspondence pertaining to Postal exhibitions in 1964, an exhibit list of stamps for the World's Fair in New York City. Exhibition sites/sponsors: Czechoslovak Philatelic Society, American Air Mail Society, Queen City Philatelic Society, Illinois State Fair.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Lists ; Memorandums
Folder number:01-03-13
Subject(s): Exhibitions

Folder title: Fall River, Mass
Description:Cachet for Fall River, Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-33
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Finance 3 Airmail Rates
Date: 12/02/1964
Description:Air Mail service: Petition to reduce domestic airmail rates and various tables and statistics.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Spreadsheets ; Memorandums ; Fact Sheets
Folder number:02-03-25
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Administration
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Finance 7 Bureau of Budget Reports & Senate Hearings
Date: 04/18/1967
Description:The Post Office Department's position on the following: First Class Mail, Air mail, 2nd Class, U.S. Post Office Department Appropriation request to Senate fiscal year 1967.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence ; Reports ; Statements
Folder number:02-03-27
Subject(s): Postal Service - Law and Legislation ;
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: First Flight - Eureka, California - Proofs of Cachet
Description:Cachet for Eureka, CA for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-12
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Frankfort, Ky
Date: 04/22/1946
Description:Cachet for Frankfort, Kentucky, for First Flight U.S. mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-26
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Grand Junction, Colo. - Cachet Proofs - First Flight 1946
Date: 02/01/1946
Description:Cachet for Grand Junction Colorado for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings
Folder number:06-05-07
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Gulfport, Miss
Description:Cachet for Gulfport, Mississippi, for the United States Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-38
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Helicopter - Chicago
Description:Cachet for the Chicago area Experimental Helicopter Service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-21
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Helicopter - New York
Date: 12/16/1946
Description:U.S. Air Mail in the New York area by Experimental Helicopter Service Cachet.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-41
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets
Original source:Fourth Assistant Postmaster General

Folder title: Historic Flights 1918, 1938, 1948
Date: 05/15/1918
Description:Photo of the planes and a copy of the letter each Postmaster General sent on the flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Photographs
Folder number:03-04-08
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Hyannis, Mass
Description:Cachet for Hyannis, Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-32
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Indiana
Date: 04/01/1938
Description:The first U.S. Air Mail service was by balloon from Lafayette Indiana, Aug. 17, 1859.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:06-05-22
Subject(s): Balloon post
Original source:Postmaster Gazette

Folder title: Int'l - Flying Tiger Lines - 1964
Date: 04/07/1964
Description:The Flying Tiger Lines was in conflict with the Civil Aeronautics Board concerning air mail rates.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:02-06-26
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Postal Rates

Folder title: Kansas Coffeyville Kan
Description:Cachet for Coffeyville and Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-20
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: La Junta, Cal. - Cachet Material - 1940 First flight
Date: 07/23/1940
Description:Cachet for La Junta, Colorado for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings
Folder number:06-05-08
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Lakehurst, New Jersey
Description:Cachet from Lakehurst New Jersey for the First Flight of the Hindenburg Trans-Atlantic to Frankfurt.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-40
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Lexington, Ky
Date: 04/22/1946
Description:Cachet for Lexington, Kentucky, U.S Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-15
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Maine - Millinocket, Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, ETC.
Description:Cachet for Bangor, Moncton, Auburn, Lewiston, Waterville, Millnocket, Houlton, Presque Isle and Caribou, Maine for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-46
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Marysville, Calif.
Date: 10/03/1946
Description:Cachet for Marysville, California, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets ; Correspondence
Folder number:06-05-50
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Merced, Cal. - first Flight 1945 - Cachet - Drawing original & proofs
Date: 05/22/1946
Description:Cachet for Merced, California for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings
Folder number:06-05-09
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Michigan - Grand Rapids, Traverse City
Description:Cachets from Traverse City and Grand Rapids, Michigan for U.S. Air Mail first Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-35
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Minot, N.D.
Date: 04/16/1940
Description:Cachet for Minot, North Dakota for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-43
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets
Original source:First Assistant Postmaster General

Folder title: Mobile, Alabama
Description:Cachet created for Mobile, Alabama for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-39
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Modesto, Cal. - First flight 1946 - Original drawing and proof for Cachet
Date: 05/22/1946
Description:Cachet for Modesto and Merced, CA for U.S. Air Mail first flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings
Folder number:06-05-05
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Montana - Great Falls / Lewistown
Description:Cachet for Great Falls and Lewistown, Montana, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-45
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Nantucket, Mass
Description:Cachet for Nantucket, Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets ; Photographs
Folder number:06-05-31
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: New Bedford, Mass
Description:Cachet for New Bedford Massachusetts, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Brochures ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-29
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: New Orleans, Louisiana
Description:Cachet for New Orleans, LA, for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-28
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Norwalk, Conn
Date: 08/07/1946
Description:Cachet for Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-17
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Oak Bluffs, Mass. (on island of Martha's Vineyard)
Description:Cachet for Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, for U.S. First Flight Air Mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Drawings ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-30
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: P. 1. History "History of Air Trans. Of Mail"
Date: 05/02/1963
Description:Materials depicting and describing the history of Air Mail in the Post Office Department. Some examples of material include the following: Directory of Publications, Air Transportation, Transportation of Mail by Air, facts and figures lists for topics on Air Mail history. Postal policy on mail matters vs. those of the Air Transportation Association.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Correspondence ; Brochures ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-02-17
Subject(s): Air mail service ; History - Postal ; Public Relations - Press Releases

Folder title: P. 1. History "Postal Rates"
Description:Charts and tables on the he history of postal rates from 1789 until 1955 in categories from First Class Mail and Air Mail, Ship and Steamboat Letters. 1792 - 1863, Domestic Air Mail; 1918-1955; Air Parcel Post 1948 - 1955.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Charts ; Tables
Folder number:02-02-15
Subject(s): Postal Rates
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: P.1. History Transportation & Photos
Date: 08/14/1961
Description:Articles and Press Releases providing historical information on the mail service transportation.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Press Releases
Folder number:02-05-25
Subject(s): Postal Service - Transportation ; Star Routes ; Air Mail Service

Folder title: P.1. History Fact Sheets 3.1.25
Description:Materials on postal information fact sheets. Some of the material in this file are Organizational charts, and fiscal year fact sheet from 7/1/1959 to 6/30/1960; 7/1/1961 to 6/30/1965, 7/2/1965 to 6/30/1968; and accomplishments of the Post Office Department 1961 to 1963: Postal rate reform, more efficient mail handling, four hour business mail service, mail service to Alaska, pay reform, better mail law enforcement,
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Reports ; Fact Sheets ; Fiscal Statements
Folder number:01-07-24
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Postal Service - Employees

Folder title: P.1. Post Office Dept. Gen. Corres. 1968
Date: 01/24/1967
Description:Correspondence includes requests for information for educational purposes, zip code system, history of air mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:01-07-36
Subject(s): Administration ; Zip Code ; Air Mail Service

Folder title: P.O. DEPT. News Kit of 1/11/68
Date: 01/11/1968
Description:First Class Mail by Air News Kit. Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien will be asking Congress to make the postage rate the same for airmail and first class mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:05-05-05
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Postal Rates ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Palm Springs, Cal. - First Flight - Negative and Proofs - 1945
Date: 10/03/1945
Description:Cachet for Palm Springs, CA for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives ; Drawings
Folder number:06-05-06
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

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: Pennslyvania Phila. and Camden, N. J. Negatives
Date: 03/27/1939
Description:Cachets for New Kensington, Philadelphia, Butler, Coatesville, Kane, Corry, Gettysburg, Erie, Warren, Tyrone, York, Wilkes-Barre, Dubois, Titusville, Natrona, Pennsylvania. Camden, New Jersey for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-44
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Pilottown - New Orleans, Hoverplane 1920's
Date: 09/09/1968
Description:Letters and memoranda pertaining to Hover plane mail service
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence
Folder number:01-02-23
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: PMG News Conference on Airlift 1/11/68
Date: 12/01/1967
Description:Material on the January 11, 1968 press conference by the Postmaster General
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Transcripts
Folder number:02-07-07
Subject(s): Public Relations - Press Releases ; Air mail service ; Postal Service - Postmasters
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Post Office Department Records 1938/39
Description:Records of the Post Office Department Bureau of the 2nd Assistant Postmaster General Division of the Air Mail Service 1938 and 1939. A list of records relating to National Air Mail week, May 15-21, 1938.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Lists
Folder number:01-01-02

Folder title: Postmarking Stamps for Exhibition Shows
Date: 03/19/1957
Description:Correspondence pertaining to postmarks for exhibitions: American Air Mail Society Convention, American Stamp Dealers Association and Memphis Stamp Collectors are only three.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:01-03-04
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Exhibitions
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Pueblo, Colo. - First Flight Cachet - 1939
Date: 03/14/1939
Description:Cachet for Pueblo, Colorado for U.S. air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-11
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Release - History of Air Mail 4/17/69
Date: 04/17/1969
Description:Copies of a Post Office Department press release with a brief history of air transportation of mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases
Folder number:02-01-21
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Public Relations - Press Relations
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Sailboat - Photo, Drawing, Cachet
Description:First Flight Air Mail cachet requested by Long Beach, California.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Drawings ; Photographs
Folder number:06-05-02
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Salinas, Calif. - First Flight Cachet materials - June 1946
Date: 06/06/1946
Description:First Flight Air Mail cachet requested by Salinas, California
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Photographs ; Drawings
Folder number:06-05-03
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: San Berardino, Calif - First Flight Cachet Materials - negative & proofs
Date: 10/25/1945
Description:Cachets requested by San Bernadino and Palm Springs California for their "First Flight" air mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Negatives
Folder number:06-05-01
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Scandinavian Airlines - 1954/55
Date: 05/28/1954
Description:Correspondence concerning the Post Office Department non-assignment of foreign air mail route numbers to air services operated by carriers of other countries.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence
Folder number:05-05-26
Subject(s): Air Mail Routes ; Air mail service

Folder title: Stamford - Norwalk, Conn
Date: 08/06/1946
Description:Cachet for Stamford and Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-42
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets
Original source:Fourth and Second Assistant Post Master General

Folder title: Stockton, Cal
Date: 04/01/1946
Description:Cachet for Stockton, California for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets ; Booklets
Folder number:06-05-49
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Trans - 10 Executive Planning BD - Airlift Program
Date: 04/22/1966
Description:To achieve next day delivery of mail, research and development is necessary. The use of computer controlled, dispatch oriented, mail processing systems may accomplish this.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-01-29
Subject(s): Postal Service - Speed Mail ; Automation ; Air mail service

Folder title: Trans 11 News Stories (Misc)
Date: 07/30/1964
Description:Copies of articles prepared for publication.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles
Folder number:02-05-21
Subject(s): Administration ; Star Routes ; Air Mail Service

Folder title: Trans 13 Priority Mail & New Policy
Date: 02/25/1963
Description:Material related to the Priority Mail service and the movement of mail by airlift.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Articles ; Press Releases
Folder number:02-01-30
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Public Relations - Press Releases ; Mail Service

Folder title: Trans 14 Flying Tiger
Date: 04/07/1964
Description:Post Office Department working with the Civil Aviation Board to lower Latin America and overseas air mail rates in contract to the Flying Tiger Airline that proposed lowing domestic rates.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Articles
Folder number:02-01-35
Subject(s): Postal Service - Air Mail ; Postal Rates

Folder title: Trans 6-2 Air Taxi Safety and Crashes
Date: 05/29/1968
Description:Material related to aircraft accidents and safety of air taxis.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-07-17
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 2 Airlift
Date: 10/08/1953
Description:Material on Air Mail Service.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Press Releases ; Memorandums
Folder number:02-07-08
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 3 Airlines
Date: 04/26/1966
Description:Material on the role of airlines in moving the mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Memorandums ; Press Releases ; Statements
Folder number:02-07-10
Subject(s): Air mail service ; Public Relations - Press Releases
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 4 Airline Strikes (General)
Date: 04/21/1966
Description:Material on moving the mails during strikes.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Fact Sheets ; Memorandums ; Articles
Folder number:02-07-11
Subject(s): Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 4-1 Airline Strike (Pan American)
Date: 12/02/1966
Description:Discussion of moving the mail via alternate airline if this strike occurs.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Fact Sheets ; Telegrams
Folder number:02-07-12
Subject(s): Postal Service - Strikes and Lockouts ; Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 4-2 Cancellation of Eastern Flts.
Date: 06/03/1966
Description:Eastern Airlines cancelled flights without previous announcement.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Fact Sheets ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-07-13
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 5 Airmail - Domestic
Date: 02/28/1967
Description:Request for information about early air mail pilots, one such organization is noted.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-07-14
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. 6-4 Air Taxi - Publicity
Date: 12/28/1967
Description:Articles about the air taxi service carrying mail.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Articles ; Correspondence
Folder number:02-07-16
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: Trans. Air Taxis - Cancellations Iimitations
Date: 03/18/1968
Description:Material related to transport of air mail by small aircraft.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Forms
Folder number:02-07-15
Subject(s): Air mail service
Original source:Post Office Department

Folder title: UC4
Date: 05/28/1958
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue of Canal Zone postal stationery UC4 . Estimate from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing regarding engraving costs. Newspaper clippings about the issue of these items.
Collection:Panama
Scott Number(s):Panama Canal Zone UC4
Includes:Correspondence ; Articles
Folder number:30-03-087
Subject(s): Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Printing ; Design

Folder title: UX - Mixed
Date: 06/13/1958
Description:Correspondence and memoranda concerning the design and issue several items of postal stationery.
Collection:Panama
Includes:Correspondence ; Memorandums
Folder number:30-03-103
Subject(s): Postcards ; Bureau of Engraving and Printing ; Air Mail

Folder title: Valdosta, Ga
Description:Cachet for Valdosta Georgia, U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Cachets
Folder number:06-05-18
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Visalia, Cal
Date: 04/01/1946
Description:Cachet for Visalia, California plus a brochure published by the Chamber of Commerce. Pictures of tall trees.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Postcards ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-48
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets

Folder title: Yreka City, Calif.
Date: 08/21/1946
Description:Cachet for Yreka California for U.S. Air Mail First Flight.
Collection:Third Assistant Postmaster General Files
Includes:Correspondence ; Cachets
Folder number:06-05-14
Subject(s): Cancellations (Philately) ; Air mail service ; Cachets
Original source:Post Office Department Fourth Assistant Post Master General

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